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Wednesday 23 April 2014
February 1990 Pt2a. Newtype Magazine
The first example I
will use to briefly show you the contents and style, as a
photographic record of a Japanese Anime Magazine from the 1990's
is...
'Newtype - the
moving pictures magazine'. Published monthly by Kadokawa Shoten.
Consisting of 180 pages (including front & back covers), #2
February 1990.
The front cover
illustration is by Tetsuo Aoki, and depicts a character? from?
As I can not myself
translate the Japanese details of the contents of this magazine, are
solely from the few English words and the recognizable animation
stills, and illustrations (that suited me just fine back in the
1990's). Luckily for me the 'Contents Page' always had plenty of
English words.
[Note: On Page 21, has
an article on 'The Hakken-Den', and on page 95, 'SFX-Movie' has an
article on the Film 'Zipang'.]
What I looked forward
to was seeing all the different styles of Manga and Japanese
animation depicted with in the pages.
Newtype had three
serialised Manga (most other magazine only had one or two); Five Star
Stories (on pages 47 - 61 (14 pages)); Yotoden (on pages 101 - 115
(14 pages)); and Marionette Generation
(on pages 127 - 134 (7
pages).
[Note: More details
about these serialised Manga at the epilogue for this year of 1990.]
The 'Anime Headline'
pages, and those of the 'Video Soft', as well as the 'THE OFFICIAL
ART of ' were a good spot-light on what was up & coming and
available in Japan at the time. The 'Newtype ART GALLERY' have you
a glimpse as to what the Japanese Fans liked and what was popular
(Newtype's editor's choice, me thinks!).
'Video Soft'
'THE OFFICIAL
ART of '
'Newtype ART GALLERY'
Plenty of adverts could
be found for VHS Tapes, and Laser Disks, as well as Colleges and
Academies to teach you how to draw comic-books and do animation, but
not all the pages where glossy colour, many of these thin pages were
just 'Black & White' making up the bulk of the magazine
(sometimes with pages inserted of a different size).
[Note: The March issue above of Newtype is to show scale.]
Best of all was the
Freebies every month that came with the magazine, One giant fold-out Poster, VHS Video cassette
covers, Audio cassette covers, a Calendar, a yearly Diary, Postcards,
Mini Poster collections, and mini collections of manga to name a
few!!
Well that's it for this
pictorial review of the Newtype magazine!
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