The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

Friday, 24 October 2014

April 1990 Pt.3 Newtype Magazine.

My first example of a Japanese Anime Magazine from the 1990's, 'NEWTYPE' - the moving pictures magazine is still going strong today at the sum of 800 Yen (2014) - imports of this magazine vary from £12.00 to £22.00 – with a subscription including p&p, but the wealth of illustrations and full colour artwork and freebies (don't forget the Poster) and its flexibility of subject have proved its survival.

'Newtype' - the moving pictures magazine'. Published monthly by Kadokawa Shoten. Consisting of 180 pages (including front & back covers), #4 April 1990. Featuring the Manga of ''The Five Star Stories','Yotoden' & 'Marionette Generation'.

5^th. Anniversary Front cover, - Pretty GUNDAM.

Contents Page (just look at the variety of subjects).

Winners of the 'Top 10' – Ryo Saeba from 'City Hunter', Noa Izumi from 'Patlabor', and Utsunomiko that nice Demon with the flute.

GUNDAM ZZ.

Dragonar & The Five Star Stories.

Shurato – Legend of heavenly Sphare & Borgman - the Supersonic Warrior\ Sonic Soldier.

Record of Lodoss War (classic RPG Fantasy) & Roujin-Z (Old man 'Z').

The Five Star Stories. (manga) pages 47 to 61.

The Five Star Stories.What an art style!

'Patlabor' makes the “Anime Headline”.

Idol Tenshi Youkoso Yoko.

Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. (SteamPunk before it became popular).

Chibi Maruko Chan.

Ranma 1\2

Yotoden (Manga) pages 101 to 115.

Yotoden (Manga).

Marionette Generation (Manga). Pages 127 to 134.

Marionette Generation (Manga).

THE OFFICIAL ART of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.

When AV was all about the... two Speakers (stereo speakers).

? & Hades Project Zeorymer (OVA 1-4)

Video releases of the time!

Model Topics.

How to Art - Step by Step.

8 Bit Games

Fan Art

The Back cover Add.

All this just to give an diea of what the focus was on.

Sunday, 28 September 2014

April 1990 Pt.2 Anime V magazine.

April was still with us, and the postman delivered on time. First to drop though the letterbox was 'Anime V' (New Video Magazine.). It was at a time when Japanese Animators could shine, Anime was not bound by a 20 minute kids show on TV networks, new outlets had emerged, the Video Rental market mostly VHS video tapes, and the collectors market dominated by the LaserDisc (LD).

This freedom gave rise to a plethora of magazines devoted to this home entertainment market (sadly some publishing runs did not last), with the OAV (Original Animation Video) or sometimes referred to as OVA ( Original Video Animation). Animation studios staked their reputation on original stories, and tested the water with a transfer from a manga or a popular novella, but not all OVAs came out on all of these formats.

[Note: Other formats such as S-VHS, VHD (Video High Density a laserdisc technology from JVC) .]

The example are used to briefly show you the contents and style in this short pictorial introduction of the Japanese Anime Magazine Anime V' (New Video Magazine.)

'Anime V' (New Video Magazine.), First Published in June 1985 by Gakken Co., Ltd. (学習研究社 ) Consisting of 140 pages (including the front & back covers), #4 April 1990 (Vol. 52).

The first few pages featured are about the OVA 'Hades Project Zeorymer'.

[Note: Anime V started its monthly print on September 1986 with Volume 9. Gakken also published the monthly Anime magazine Animedia. You can see the publisher's name on the spine of the magazines 学習研究社©.]