Thursday, 22 June 2023
Contanimet October 2nd. to 4th. 1992.
Contanimet October 2nd. to 4th. 1992.
The Third British Anime Convention, and the First Bermingham Anime Convention in the UK.
Photos and text information, can be found by clicking this link Contanimet October 2-4 1992.
OR
The above tab 'ConTanimeT October 2-4 1992.'
1992 Anime-Day 0092 Con-in-pocket.
Anime-Day 0092 Con-in-pocket 1992.
Photos and text information, can be found by clicking this link 1992Anime-Day 0092 Con in pocket..html
OR
the above tab '1992 Anime Day 0092 Con in the pocket.'
Kiseki Films 93-96
Kiseki Films, and distrobution label 'PARADOX FILMS' (London) Ltd, reach a deal with LA HERO (a leading American Anime label), who's parent Animation company is the Tokyo based 'The Hero Studio', in mid 1993.
The work in JUNE 2023 continues; Kiseki Films Press releases.
Geoff Cowie Wrote in December of 1994, as part of his 'Complete UK Anime Guide' (UK-PAL). Featuring over 120 Video reviews, the following;
"Most UK releases are dubbed into english. A minority are subtitled, and even fewer are available in both formats."
"British videotapes are among the cheapest in the World. Few full-length Anime tapes cost more than £12.99 (R.R.P.)."
"Some distributors price according to length, with many tapes under 50 Mins costing less than £10, and half hour tapes costing from £5.99."
Click the link to see the Press releases sent to my Club 'Anime Kyo UK', that I have kept over the years, spanning 1993 to 1996. Or click on the above tab 'Kiseki Films 1993-1996'.
The text and writtern informaion, is there for you to find and use, Time has STOPPED me from linking all the photos, you are welcome to look over it all.
Wednesday, 7 June 2023
Memories of Britian's Anime Boom
June 2023 KINO NO ANIME: Memories of Britian's Anime Boom | Documentary (Mins 45.55)
From the mid 1980's to the early to mid 1990's.
[NOTES: Back at the dawn of the 1990's, anime had only just started to make a major breakthrough into the UK - a time of tape-traders, pen-pals and conventions barely big enough to fill a single room - but it was the start of something bigger. With voice over provided by one of the original UK fans and president of what was once the biggest anime fanclub in the UK: Carlo Bernhardi tells his stories about what it was like during the fandom's early years and the challenges that came with pursuing such a super-niche hobby.]
[NOTES: Featuring images from Carlo's own archives as well as clips from shows back in the day, "Kino no Anime: Memories of Britian's Anime Boom" will hopefully give foreign and younger fans a bit of insight into what the UK anime boom of the early 90's was really like. VOICE OVER PROVIDED BY: Carlo Bernhardi (Founder of Anime Kyo UK and the Anime Nostalgia Facility blog...). FULL CREDITS ARE PROVIDED AT THE END OF THE VIDEO.]
[NOTES: Description (and Objectives), This video channel exists to archive various forms of anime video and image media collected since the early 90's by dedicated UK fan and the original founder of the "Anime Nostalgia Facility UK" blog, Carlo Bernhardi. Here you will find examples of media many anime fans had access to before the days of the internet, where networking with pen-pals and tape-trading was the only real way to access the latest animated shows from Japan. Many clips and samples are showcased the way they were back in the days of VHS - generational wear and all! - This channel would like to dedicate itself to two pioneers that heavily influenced Carlo's fascination with Japanese popular culture: Toren Smith and Carl Macek. Your choices inspired a whole generation (even outside of the U.S.) to fall in love with the pictorial image and animated visuals from Japan. - ARCHIVE RESOURCES FROM THE COLLECTION OF: Carlo Ruben Miguel Bernhardi - CHANNEL RUN BY: Martin Brown - 注: 日本のユーザーは、より多くのコンテンツを取得するために VPN を使用してください.]
[NOTES: In committing my words, and memories to the Web (the Internet), in the hope that my own legacy, elevates the pioneers that influenced the Anime Fandom in the UK, in a fact based record, that educates and entertains, as I battle terminal cancer. That will spark a conversation, of wonder, or nostalgia!]
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
End of May 2023
Now with the end of May 2023, in sight, adding and uploading more photographic evidences for the pictoral record, as we move into early mid 1990s.
Friday, 19 May 2023
May 2023 living with terminal Cancer!
May 2023, I have finally finished working on the 1991's March 9th. Anime-Day (THE UK's FIRST ANIME CONVENTION) blog pgae, with evey bit of printed, or handwritern correspondence, Advertisments, photos, Convention Booklet scans, Pre-Convention Reports, Post Convention thoughts, from attendees, and the organisers. And with 100 people, meny of whom where meeting for the first time, and a small core Fandom of Pen-Pals also got to see each other too. I would think that it was about 5/6 of the National total of the UK's Anime Fandom showing up to watch Anime they had not seen before.
March 1991 Pt.1 ANIME DAY – The first Anime convention in the UK
For me, May 2023, has seen its ups and downs regarding my health, but I try to UPload what I can, to the NEW Pages, and discover, photoghaphs and edit, and transcribe (takes more time for a Dylexsic, on top of my illness) the writern word for you to be able to see the Data more clearly.
Adding to "A Harmony of Robot invaders." the 1980's timeline....
In March of 1987 the reviewer Phil Fances, in that month's issue of 'White Dwarf Magazine - The Role-Playing Games Monthly' (Issue 87), does use the Word "Anime", but in keeping with a lightharted tone, refers to it as "what the Japanese call their giant robot cartoons", and in both the reviews of 'MEKTON' and its Expantion rule set 'Roadstriker', you can note the phrase "in the best possible taste", that to my mind brings up a 'catch-phrase from comedian Kenny Everett. - Note that the 1980's the Retail and mail order Company 'GAMES WORKSHOP' was quite differant than its post 2000 counterpart, and was a haven for Role playing games, Novels, and War games, of Science Fiction, and Fantasy, and other well known IPs, not just its own games and minitures!
A harmony of robots found in White Dwarf.
[NOTE: So far I have not found any more writings, or advertisements in regards to Anime, or the American games of Battletech or Mekton in the 1980's issues of White Dwarf Magazine.
Other NEW pages for you to visit are focusted on those early Anime Conventions in the UK;
AND;
Liverpool's University Science Fiction, Fantasy, Film and Fear Society. Is to beleaved to had hosted a ONE Day Anime convention, on Saturday 18th. june 1994 ? Project L-Kon
AND ;
The on going new PAGES; timeline-data-facts; This Time-line encludes my own inportant key moments regarding Anime and Manga.
Tuesday, 11 April 2023
April 2023 dealing with terminal Cancer!
April 2023, I am still working on March 9th. 1991 Anime-Day (THE UK's FIRST ANIME CONVENTION), more than a year since my article in NEO Magazine, as I also have been fleshing out the 1980's manga comics books section, and all things AKIRA... and adding new PAGES; timeline-data-facts, Anime Day 0092 Con in the pocket, all the while dealing with terminal Cancer!
My hope as always is that a talking point is started, in looking back at those early days of being an Anime and Manga fan, either making a comparison, or a fond nostalgic memory.
This March\April (2023), while I have the time, I would like to THANK my friends in Anime, that have supported me, by any means, or that I have bugged!!;
Darren J. Ashmore
(A dear friend, that is across the World by time, who finds the time.)
Rick Cowing
(The fastest gun-slinger of 'likes' to my posts on Facebook, and Chairman of Anime Day)
Lorraine Reynolds & Matt Hewitt
(Greatly helping my mind and thoughts at this difficult time of my life)
Martin Brown
(YouTube Channel runner, for the sister site of this blog 'Anime Nostalgia Archive UK')
Michael James Brown
(President of Nottingham's independent Anime and Manga Society NAMSOC, and "Ideas" man.)
Dan from 'Polock Press'
(cinema event orgaiser, who also pushed out a link to this blog.)
Leah Holmes
( Who took the time to travel up to interview me, about the early days of Anime fandom.)
Helen McCarthy & Steve Kyte
(Anime pen-pals from the late 80's, that have kept in touch, and promoted this blog)
There are many more people to thank, to add to the roll-call, you are not forgotten, as I take each day as it comes, battling and living with this terminal cancer of the larynx.
I have fallen short of getting more evidence from the 1991 to 1995 from UK Magazines, such as; STARBURST, FANTAZIA, SPEAKEASY, and COMICS INTERNATIONAL, and Model Mart too, so if you have them, or find links to them, please let me or someone know!!