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November 6th, 2007 by Brack

More news from the pages of UK anime/manga mag Manga Mania circa August 1993.

  • Manga Video were releasing RG Veda, The Legend of Arislan (sic), Crying Freeman and Doomed Megalopolis.
  • Western Connection (remember them?) were releasing The Sensualist
  • Dark Horse Comics were releasing Adam Warren’s Bubblegum Crisis “manga”. Not coincidentally Dark Horse International were the publishers of Manga Mania at this time.
  • Trish Ledoux was recommending the Japanese release of the complete LaserDisc boxset of Ranma 1/2 while simultaneously dissing the complete Minky Momo and Mospeda boxes.
  • She also announced Viz’s release of the Ranma OAVs, Bandai’s Japanese release of the second Dominion Tank Police OAV series and the english language release of Johji Manabe’s Outlanders by Dark Image Entertainment. Manabe was definitely a visible name in US manga releases in the nineties, but seems to have dropped off the radar today. Dark Image Entertainment isn’t a name I’m familiar with, according to ANN they were part of LA Hero/US Renditions, all of which are now defunct.
  • Out in Japan around this time were (all names from the magazine):
Crimson Wolf
Free Kick Toward Tomorrow 13
Ushio and Tora OAV Vol. 8
Erotic Beast High School Vol. 4
KO Century Three Beastketeers 2 Vol. 2
Ambassador Magma Vol. 1
Sleepless Oedo!
Tale of A Narrative Fantasy Ellcia Vol. 4
Machine God Corps Vol. 4

  • And in the US:
Harmageddon (US Manga Corps)
Super Deformed Double Feature (AnimEigo)
Photon Space Sailer Starlight Odin~! (US Manga Corps)
Ambassador Magma Vol. 2 (LA Hero/Dark Image Entertainment) - was this really getting released in the US before Japan???
The Guyver Vol. 5 (LA Hero/US Renditions)
Devilman Vol. 2 (LA Hero/Dark Image Entertainment)
MADOX-01/Riding Bean (AnimEigo)
Urusei Yatsura OAV Vol. 5 (AnimEigo)
Robot Carnival LD (???)

Not quite as interesting news this time, it’s sort of settled into just being a list of release dates. The Japanese releases are quite interesting to see, as is the distinctly different landscape in the US Market.

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Fourteen Year Old Anime News

October 30th, 2007 by Brack

I was struggling to think of something to write tonight. The next CIOASIISAG entry will be somewhat longwinded (as it will be OHOTMU the RPG!) and so I want to do it around the weekend and my brain doesn’t want to do any UY family tree research at the moment.

Then I remembered I have every issue of the UK anime/manga magazine Manga Mania, and I thought it might be interesting to see what was going on in anime and manga when it started up, so here’s what was in news in the first issue of Manga Mania (July 1993):

  • Manga Video had Lensman and Urotsukidoji II coming out.
  • The conTanimTed convention was coming up in Birmingham, at the New Cobden Hotel.
  • The last volume of Anime Projects’ release of Bubblegum Crisis was coming out.
  • Tony Luke’s “Dominator” “manga” was coming out. (Manga Mania had some sort of love affair with Tony Luke…)
  • First Independant had just released “Warriors Of The Wind” in the UK.
  • There was a report on Anime Day File-3 held at the Rutland Hotel, Sheffield which had 260 people attend~!~!
  • Trish Ledoux recommending US and Japanese titles - namely “GUNN, RUSTY ANGEL” (Battle Angel Alita) OAV and the MAISON IKKOKU manga.
  • And a list of fanzines (and where to get them):
    • Tales Of The Cajun Sushi Bar
    • Animeheim
    • Legend Of The OVA Fiend
    • Marionette Nation
    • Animenia
    • Trash City
    • From The Sublime…

I wouldn’t get into anime and manga for about over 2 years after this came out. The copy I’m cribbing this from was my little brother’s. Of those fanzines Trash City and Tales Of… were certainly kicking around when I became a fan of anime, but Trash City was the only one I ever read/bought. And is still ongoing as a website.

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