August 1990 Pt.1 Newtype Magazine

'Newtype' #8 August 1990. - the moving pictures magazine'. Published monthly by Kadokawa Shoten. Consisting of 188 pages (including front & back covers), 490 Yen.

Again what I have uploaded is a small percentage of August's Newtype magazine, so as to compare it with other Japanese Animation magazines of that month or year, to see its variety, and the Ads. too.

 Newtype' #8 August 1990. (Gundam F91)

 Record of Lodoss war,

and 'White Wolf.

 Record of Lodoss war.

?

 It's the Contents page.

Gundam F91

 Gundam F91

 Gundam F91

 Gundam F91

 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.

 Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.

 The hunt for Red october.

 Robocop 2.

 Die hard 2.

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

 ? and Nineteen19.

 ? 

and 

' The Hakkenden'

RG VEDA,

3x3 Eyes. 

 Gundam, Vampire Hunter D, Gall Force,

and
Karura Mau (OAV)

?    

Like the Clouds, Like the Wind   

and

'Mashin Hero Wataru'

 ?

and

Record of Lodoss war, Five Star Stories,

and ? 

 ?

and your Horoscope.

??

 ??

 Patlabor.

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

 Dragon Ball Z

Oliver & Company (1988).

 ?

 'Gall Force 2',

and 'Iczer 3'.

 Project A-KO Vs

and  Record of Lodoss war
Cipher.

TOKYO Animator College.

'Yotoden' by Takeshi Narumi & Kenichi Ohnuki.

'Yotoden' by Takeshi Narumi & Kenichi Ohnuki.

'Marionette Generation' by Haruhiko Mikimoto.

 'Marionette Generation' by Haruhiko Mikimoto.

 Iczer 3

  Iczer 3

  Iczer 3

  Iczer 3

 A serialized novela ? (chapter 40)

 ??

 ??

?? 

 ??

?

and 

' Like the Clouds, Like the Wind'.

 Video releases of the time! 

 Model kits (You know as a hobby).

 How to Art - Step by Step.

 RC cars, and

Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

 "We are Gamers" All your 8Bit Video Games

and ?

 TVs and ?

 Record of Lodoss war,

and ?

 ??

&

??

Armored Trooper VOTOMS,

and 'Five Star Stories'. 

??? 

Dragon magazine

 Gatchaman,

and  'Far East of Eden' (OVA).

 'Heaven and Earth' Directed by Haruki Kadokawa.

Dragon Ball Z,

Patlabor Model kits (who's got one?)

July 1990 Pt. 12 Letters Page

With so many old friends found in the 'Letters Page' of a comic books or Fanzines; that Pen-Pal network, that started me off back in late 1989 and early 1990, is now a time capsule, and having kept many letters, I am now adding snippets of thoughts of yesteryear when I can.

Fan Club addresses, contacts and pen-pals.

  

Alan from Roehampton (Pen-pals list in Robotech II Sentinals #13 “Robotegami”) – wrote about “G-Force, and Ulysses, Voltron, and seeing Robotech on Cable TV (Superchannel), Techno Police Movies is on “Sky Movies” - “Have you seen the Japanese Season on Channel Four?”, “At least we can see some of the stuff!”

and buying a Panasonic (NV L28B) VCR (video Tape recorder) that had NTSC Playback, to watch Anime.

[NOTE: see link to cant-play-anime and the cost of VCRs with NTSC playback was as much as a month's wage, and in today's money £450 is equivalent in purchasing power to £1,003.49 in 2018.]

Martin from Portsmouth (Pen-pals list in Robotech II Sentinals #13 “Robotegami”) – wrote about

“I've just bought a Panasonic NV-J35B (even though the picture quality doesn't match my Akai VS-53EK, and it sounds like it runs on clock-work!)” - “I thought Laputa was a beautiful film, very emotional and exceeding well animated. It made a pleasant change from the run-of-the-mill kill the bad guys, with fancy Mecha we see.”

Richard from Swindon (EDC member - pen-pal), wrote about “Anime Hasshin, who I have just heard from after a seven week wait. I received 'The Rose' No. 21, and noticed [an Anime fan] at RAF Lakenheath over hear, have you contacted him yet?”, “I also had a letter from Lorraine Savage requesting a small piece on UK Anime activities”, and I am writing a short piece for Helen McCarthy's Anime Newsletter”. “I've given up on 'The lovely Angels Fanatic Cult', who I haven't heard from at all.” - “I would be interested in seeing some of the games console items related to Anime, I know there have been games based on 'Urusei Yatsura', 'SPT layzner (Blue comet)', and 'Macross', with the 'Sega Megadrive' being officially launched in September [the Grey import games will not work\fit with the UK Megadrive] “this means that most of the Anime titles will not work” - The official price is £190.00 inc 1 game, with other games costing £30 -£40. “At least those games don't cost the £220 per games of the Neo Geo!”

[NOTE:   In other words, £190 in 1990 is equivalent in purchasing power to £423.69 in 2018, and £30 to £40 in 1990 is equivalent in purchasing power to £66.90 to £89.20 in 2018. with a whopping £220 in 1990 is equivalent in purchasing power to £490.59 in 2018]

Jim From Edmonton (EDC member – pen-pal – UK's Star Trek fandom USS Endeavour, with its Special Interest Group Arcadia ) wrote - “Talking about 'Black Magic', I've just finished creating a fiendish scenario for R. Talsorian's CYBERPUNK role-playing game, based on the Anime... I think players are in for a hard time, heh, heh, heh. The comic version of 'Black magic M66' should be on sale soon too.” and “You lucky scumbag, you. It's not fair, all you guys with NTSC videos getting all the really nifty anime...”

Paul from South Shields (MekTek subscriber and EastCon '90 attendee) back in June wrote about “'Japanime North East' – we are now an official club (!) that's our proper name at the top of the page (club letterheads are very useful), I managed to secure us a quit TV viewing lounge at the local Community Centre, and they are soon going to buy us a Video to use (Multi format of course), we'll be having viewing sessions every Sunday evening. It costs £3.50 to become a member for a year, and nightly subs are 40p (standard community association). “

“I do hope that you can bring people in your area together and form a successful Anime Club, there are lot of people around Britain who have talked before about forming clubs, but as usual nothing happens.” - “We should be getting more good Anime soon and we will all 'chip in' to get it converted to Pal so that everyone can enjoy it, after all 10 members each give £2 to get a tape converted, we think its the best way. - (it cost £34 for 3 hours).”

[NOTE: £34 in 1990 is equivalent in purchasing power to £75.82 in 2018.]

[NOTE: With America and Japan running the NTSC television format, and the UK having its PAL system finding compatible VCR (video Tape recorder), and a television that was smart enough to show the signal was a big deal back in the 90's, very hard to find, and the cost was well over a month's wage!]

[NOTE: Mr G. Cowie explains the technicalities, back in the day...]

[NOTE: Anime showings were done in people's bedrooms, and front rooms, and community centres, as part of the grass roots of a fledgling Fandom.] 

july-1990-pt11 US_A-KON-90

PROJECT A-KON

Mean while in July of 1990, over on the other side on the pond, the E.D.C. had been hard at work putting together PROJECT A-KON (26th. & 29 July in Richardson TX USA).

The first fan run Anime convention of the 90's!

With support from E.D.C.'s local affiliates; NEO  DALLAS, and 3WA, 

just ask Meri Wakfielkd,

GUESTS: from Animag;Trish Ledoux (Magazine Editor), 

and

 Jeffery Tibbetts (of Pacific Rim Publishing). 

Animag; America's only Professional Anime Magazine.

Louis Scarborough JR. (Animator),

Steve Krueger (comic book artist),

VERY SPECIAL GUEST OF HONOR Tex Henson (Animator), 

FAN GUEST of HONOR: B-D Banzai 

[NOTE: At this time the Earth Defence Command (EDC), had only 8 inquiring Anime Fans from the UK who had contacted them by June of 1990.]

[NOTE: "Editorial Comments - Project A-kon Diary" can be found written by the Editor of Animag #11 (1990 - time of year unknown) ; by  Trish Ledoux chronicling 24 hours from 23.15 (7/27/90) to 23.28 (7/28/90).  - It would by anything from 3 months to 18 months before I would have picked this up from a comic book shop in England!]