June 1990 Pt.3 Newtype magazine

'Newtype' #6 June 1990. - the moving pictures magazine'. Published monthly by Kadokawa Shoten. Consisting of 180 pages (including front & back covers), 410 Yen.

Newtype still 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).

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Contents Page (more verity than post 2000's Newtype!)

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Animators and manga artists and writers 

Motoo Abiko & Hiroshi FUJIMOTO 

(creator of Doraemon Sadly no longer with us, died September 1996).

'Watashi No Ashinaga Ojisan'  (My Daddy Long Legs).

Gaia Gear
written by Yoshiyuki Tomino
and
mechanical design by Ito Mamoru

Ads.  & Cyber City Oedo 808 

 The Five Star Stories (Manga).

The Five Star Stories (Manga).

 

Dark Angel. (a manga featured in Newtype magazine).

CLAMP 

(an art style that would dominate manga in the decades to come).

Ranma 1/2

Animation College 

 Yotoden (Manga).

 Yotoden (Manga).

 Marionette Generation (Manga).

Marionette Generation (Manga).

 Record of Lodoss War (OVA series).

  Record of Lodoss War (OVA series).

  Record of Lodoss War (OVA series).

 Record of Lodoss War (OVA series).

 Video releases of the time!

 Model Topics.

 How to Art - Step by Step.

 ?

 8 Bit Games 

(Splatter House on the PC Engine Console).

 New Manga Volumes.

Gall Force (OVA, so popular they made more). 

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). 

June 1990 Pt.2 Animedia Magazine

I will endeavour to use this page to briefly show you the contents and style in a pictorial manner as a comment on this Japanese monthly Anime Magazine “Animedia”.

Animedia #6 June 1990 (No 107). Consisting of 152 pages (including the front & back covers), 400 Yen. First Published in July 1981 by Gakken Co., Ltd.

from Patlabor

Dreagon Quest Game, and some Ads.

Mashin Hero Wataru 

NG Knight Ramune & 40.

Dragon Quest

?

..... And AD Police

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.

Patlabor.

Dragon Ball Z

Magical Angel Sweet Mint.

Magical Angel Sweet Mint.

?

Hiromi Yamazaki &  Noa Izumi from Patlabor.

Magical Angel Sweet Mint.

 Shin...?  (Manga). Pages 73-88

[Note: No details on the Writer or illustrator].

 Shin...?  (Manga).

[Note: No details on the Writer or illustrator].

Paint Gallery.

Cyber City Oedo 808 & Dragon Quest

Ranma 1/2

Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl.

Chibi Maruko-chan &?

? &   Dragon Ball Z

 Ultraman.

I do see that ads for teens or older are side by side with ads aimed at children, show the wide readership of the magazine.

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). 

About this Blog (Post 80)

Working as a part-time Anime Fandom historian, transferring written questionnaires (and trying group interesting data together), scanning Magazines, and manga comic-books, and those few surviving pen-pal letters from the late 80's and early 90's. All to be re-read and correlated chronology, and to see what statements of that time can be used as testimonials, to give a seance of what new and existing time it was, when cartoon were not just kids shows, and Black & White comic-books had a new cinematic feel to them for an older reader.

What tasks I set myself, can of course lead me away from uploading on a regular basis, as I'd hoped to give a month-by-month view of what it was like back in the day.

At times when you get immersed in the past when reading these old letters, and after 25 years or more have gone bye, the temptation to explore the internet to re-connect with old pen-pals does take you to the side once and a while, what stopped me in my tracks was the discovery that a Anime pen-pal had died 18 years ago (1999) on the Isle of Wight at the young age 27, I only had a few letters spanning two years (1990 & 1991) that had survived in my collection, but the overwhelming feelings of loss, of a fellow pioneer, and the time that had already passed bye this was October 2016. I was already struggling with the self-promoting idea of my own part in the spread of Japanese pop culture in the UK entitled Birth of a Fan Club   and an aversion to writing had sunk in.

By December of 2016 my attentions had moved to the information that my job after 11 years was to be made redundant, and later that month my son was admitted to hospital with the discovery of a very serous heart condition. Six months on and I have re-discovered the joy of collecting the past, a few Manga comic-books at a time, scanning, dating and cataloging in the hope of uploading to a future Blog post, or other medium for content.

Now diving back into the past.....

Area88 and Mai the Psychic Girl

Area 88 ran for 42 Biweekly issues (2 per month) from May of 1987 to February 1989.

Mai the Psychic Girl ran for 28 issues Biweekly (2 per month) from May of 1987 to June 1988.

GREY and BAOH

Grey ran for 9 monthly issues from August 1988 to April 1989.

Baoh ran for 8 monthly issues from December 1989 to July 1990.

JUSTY and Appleseed 

Justy ran for 9 Biweekly (2 per month) issues from December 1988 to April 1989.

Appleseed ran to 20 issues from December 1988 to November 1991, 4 books each had 5 parts.

With American imports to the UK those smaller complete runs of 8 to 9 issues could be easily missed, or even later forgotten about.

June 1990 Pt.1 Mangajin Magazine

Mangajin Magazine

Consisting of 80 pages (including front & back covers), with a Cover price of $4.50. Mangajin was Distributed by KINOKUNIYA BOOKSTORES (in the U.S.) & was available in Japan through SEKAI SHUPPAN KENKYU CENTRE (Tokyo) First (Pilot) Issue Volume 1 #1 Printed June 1990, start of print run August of 1990. Last issue published Volume 7 #70 November\December 1997. Mangajin was published 10 times a year, Monthly except for January and July each year.

Editor & Publisher Vaughan Paul Simmons (Based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.)

The Mangajin Project (as its Editor refers to it) issue one is such an oddity of a point in time when interest in Japan went a little deeper, from a fascination of modern Japanese business practises, and it's almost unknown alien culture to that America. With Hollywood movies like “Black Rain” staring Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia, and Yusaku Matsuda that was only released in September of 1989 in America still fresh in people's minds.

A magazine aimed at helping those interested in the Japanese language, studying both its politeness and slang, alongside what business tourists may want to add to their understanding.

I have only included a few samples of what you would find within the pages of Mangajin from my own view as someone that appreciates all aspects Japanese manga, in the hope it will spark a search for knowledge in you the reader.

[NOTE: By the late 90's Mangajin had ceased being published, it did have a presence on the Internet, sadly that too is now in the past - using the Internet's Archive Way-back machine http://web.archive.org/web/20110215113738/http://www.mangajin.com/ you can discover the WASABI BROTHERS Trading Company run by....]

The Contence page (just look at the variety, and the scope).

A few words from the Editor.....

Supporting Advertisement from VIZ COMICS, showing popular Translated Managa of the past few years.

How to make Sushi.

Tanaka-Kun (Salary-man) by Hiroshi Tanaka.

What's Michael? by Makoto Kobayashi.

 HOTEL by Shotaro Ishinomori 

(better known in the West for his Anime 'Cyborg 009' and his creation of live-action series 'Kamen Rider' ).

If you lived in 'Los Angeles', 'New York', or 'San Francisco' you had access to a Kinokuniya Bookstore, and a copy of mangajin.

Supporting Advertisement from ECLIPSE INTERNATIONAL and featuring a production from STUDIO PROTEUS (the translation company founded by Toren Smith).

Your Janpanese vocabulary at a glance!

The future of Mangajin, what's coming next!?

Not only does West meet East, but now you know that the city of Atlanta, is the birthplace of CocaCola, is also the birthplace of Mangajin.

[Note; a 7 year old link may still work if you are looking for resources thespectrum.net mangajin ]

{Note: I did not have a subscripion to this magazine, but chose to pick it up at Comic-book stores around England in the early 1990's, it may have been months or even years before an issue would get to the UK.]

May 1990 Pt.7 Anime Kyo UK

Anime Kyo UK

This Page is under continued development, and its Links will be updated from time to time. 

A continuing fact page will also be updated.

A time of 'Pen and Paper', a time of ' Scissors & Pritt Stick glue', when Photocopiers re-sized Artwork and printed whole Fanzines, who knew Desk-Top-Publishing was done on a table or on the floor?!

Birth of a Fan Club     (March 2015)

NEXT; by the end of June 1990  (New. August 2017)

Having found paperwork from my Anime club, and personal letters of correspondence from my old Pen-pals, as well as the month of May being the time when I was having treatment for Cancer, I will have to make a great deal of effort to show the transition from Novice Anime Fan and consumer of all things Anime, to an enabler, connecting Fans far an wide, to a founder of a local Anime Club that developed beyond its Shire borders.

Dated August 2016, August 2017

Post 77 American Fandom

And now another break from the chronology of the past.

I thought you would all like to know that with a road-trip up to Sheffield Arena on Saturday 13^th. Of August 2016 I attended the “FILM & COMIC CON Sheffield” run by Showmasters, just on the off chance of picking up some old Translated manga from the 80's and 90's (they are in the same format & style as any American imported comic-books, not like modern Manga that is in the Diary format).!

Out of the six or so stalls that sold manly DC & MARVEL comic-books, one would have ten random issues of manga, and one of those was now to replace a lost comic-book that many a UK Anime and Manga fan would have read back in 1989, if remembering it for its 'Letters Page'.

Appleseed

Book3 Volume 2, September,1989

American Appleseed Cover painting by Adam Warren

American Appleseed Logo designed by Tom Orzechowski

Editor Fred Burke

Editor-in-Chief Catherine Yronode

Publisher Dean Mullaney

English translation by Studio Proteus

The Letters Page.

For what I am so thankful for is a comic-book fan Dan White writting to the Editor Fred Burke, and that his letter about the cost of Anime (on VHS) was published in the Letters Page.

  

[NOTE: The reply was signed Toren Sez, with the tone of someone who knew the industry in Japan, could this have been Toren Smith founder of Studio Proteus and supporter of Comic-Con giving his insight?]

[NOTE: These two American Anime Fan Clubs (Earth Defence Command, Anime Hasshin) would be an early part of my own Nexus into a wider Fandom, linking me with other Fans in the UK and forever changing my life.]