My Animage 1984 Special: letters & fanart from the US & Canada

[usamimi]

So recently I was gifted some old Animage issues & I was thrilled to find an awesome special segment on fanart & letters from North American readers! Some names you might even recognize, if you've been around for awhile check out my scans here.

http://animenostalgia.tumblr.com/post/1 ... s-from-usa

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[Kame-Sen'nin]

Wow, very cool stuff! Glad you found and shared these. Thanks usamimi!

[SteveH]

Awesome indeed, good job!

Was that a stand-alone insert booklet or a glued-in attachment? Which issue? All the magazines back then had TONS of extras what with posters and the pack-ins. I've got....lord, like 6 cardboard file boxes filled with inserts and posters. Posters take up two entire boxes on their own and that's WITH separating out various ones by specific show.

It was not uncommon for an average issue to have two bound-in posters, a bound-in set of stickers, a loose larger poster and a booklet of some form. That's 4 magazines a month, 12 a year each.

I have more to say about Animage and America a bit later.

[usamimi]

It was a glued-in attachment. I did a quick scan of it without removing it from the magazine, but I might redo them in the future if I decide to take it apart. I figure for now, they're serviceable at least.

Animedia had some great extras. I wish I still had some of the old ones I used to have. The pull out poster inside this issue was Dirty Pair!

[SteveH]

My particular fave magazine back then was My Anime. There was a friendlyness, somehow, it seemed to be designed just for me. They tended to cover the shows I enjoyed, they often produced 'establishment sheet' booklets I've found useful 30 years later, killer art direction, outstanding posters.

something strange happened to them around 1985. suddenly they went to a bi-weekly publishing schedule. At the same time Yuji Hiramatsu left Books Nippan to return to Japan, Keven Seymore took over Book Nippan's mail order and comic shop wholesale division. Funny that never seems to be mentioned about him, even when he passed away, how he steered the company away from the otaku-centric world of Roman Albums and Perfect manuals and pushed, really pushed hard to get Japanese punk and metal rock magazines and expensive airbrush art books into B. Dalton and Walden Books. So my knowledge died as my magazines failed to arrive. I have no idea how long My Anime lasted once they went Bi-weekly. Newtype Magazine came along and my that was soooo pretty and THE magazine to get if you loved Sunrise's 80's output.

[usamimi]

I didn't find out about My Anime til years later. I was always curious about it, never have seen any in person.

[DKop]

I posted one of the issues up on my site, and i got a handful of these issues from Tim Eldred last summer when he was selling stuff on the Star Blazers fansite.

http://animeofyesteryear.blogspot.com/2 ... vol12.html

[SteveH]

I posted one of the issues up on my site, and i got a handful of these issues from Tim Eldred last summer when he was selling stuff on the Star Blazers fansite.

http://animeofyesteryear.blogspot.com/2 ... vol12.html

That was a good issue. Pure time capsule.

[_D_]

I finally got a new scanner albeit in an All In One HP Office Jet, so I can go back and do scans again. My contact in Japan sent me so many magazines, manga, etc. that they clutter up the house. I had a lot of issues of Animage, My Anime, Animedia, New Type, etc. over the course of 20 years. Always something neat in them. I kept a lot of other advertising material as well such as video store posters and other adverts. Scanning it all in would take forever. If there is something specific you want me to do, just let me know. I really need to get a better digital camera to do insert stuff with. Using an IPad mini is less than adequate.

[SteveH]

I finally got a new scanner albeit in an All In One HP Office Jet, so I can go back and do scans again. My contact in Japan sent me so many magazines, manga, etc. that they clutter up the house. I had a lot of issues of Animage, My Anime, Animedia, New Type, etc. over the course of 20 years. Always something neat in them. I kept a lot of other advertising material as well such as video store posters and other adverts. Scanning it all in would take forever. If there is something specific you want me to do, just let me know. I really need to get a better digital camera to do insert stuff with. Using an IPad mini is less than adequate.

I can't afford such a thing of course but I do wonder if there is a very large format scanner out there, something that could handle a full poster.

D, I envy you. Does your stock include issues of the Bi-weekly version of My Anime? That would have been circa 1985 into '86. I'd love to know when the final issue was.