#viz magazine

[nmpositive]

Sheds.

Sheds.

Sheds!

(all from the VIZ Magazine)

#nmnpost #viz magazine #viz #SHEDS

[mrlogicforeve]

More Fanart cringe

#artists on tumblr #wow #cool #viz magazine #vizcomic #kevin spencer #digital art #traditional art #woman #canada #puzzle and action #bonanza bros #dynamite headdy #izayoi #Slappy Bigelow

[joshcockroft2]

Drunken Baker – Barney Farmer

16.7.2022

Read on the flight into England – a poetic, damning, nostalgic, eyes-wide-open view of the state of the nation. A really remarkable book.

#Barney Farmer #Drunken Baker #book #books #read #reading #viz magazine #booklr #bookblr #fiction

[h0neytune-cherub]

Animerica, featuring art from Yasuomi Umetsu's Kite on the cover and contents page. (via)

#Kite #Yasuomi Umetsu #the Satoshi Kon interview is scanned and available in the attached source! That and more. #Animerica #Viz media #nostalgia #anime magazine

[animehouse-moe]

The Animanga Find Of A Lifetime

Yeah, I haven't really been too active this week. I've been busy during the week with life and whatnot, but a good chunk of the end of this week has been about this pile of anime and manga magazines. It's no longer just a "pile" of Animerica Extra, but a bonafide Mt. Everest encroaching on 400 issues, so I have lot to explain with just this haul alone.

So, where to begin? An outline is probably best.

This haul is a total of about 311 issues (a little more because of a few duplicates and magazines that aren't strongly related to animanga). That huge number is split across 16 different magazines, 4 of which (combining for 37 issues) are Japanese language.

The full list, in alphabetical order, is: Animage (JP), Animerica, Animerica Extra, Anime USA, AX (JP), AX DVD (JP), Mangajin, Neo, Newtype (JP), NewtypeUSA, OtakuUSA, Pulp, Protoculture Addicts, Shoujo Beat, Super Manga Blast, and Yen+.

Protoculture Addicts and Animerica stand out in the bunch because they together combine for over 100 of the issues in the haul, which is good because they're by far the longest running in the lot.

Speaking of those, let me give a bit of broad history in regards to the magazines.

While the majority are English language, there's actually a pair of them that were created/published outside of the US.

Starting it off, Protoculture Addicts was created in Montreal, and was actually ran as a Robotech Fanzine for about a year or so before becoming a full fledged magazine.

And then there's Neo, the UK based magazine. It's arguably the most interesting ongoing magazine out of the lot (with Otaku/Anime USA being the only others). It's also the only monthly animanga magazine to be currently published in English as OtakuUSA is bimonthly, and AnimeUSA is quarterly.

But that's enough history, what about the insides? For the most part they're relatively standard, but there's not "as many" manga anthology issues in this mountain.

Super Manga Blast, Shoujo Beat (only 9 issues), Animerica Extra (which I now have extras of), Pulp (only 2 issues), and Yen+.

That last one is the most interesting to me purely because of an editorial/column penned by "The Otaku Pimp". Yeah, that's a real thing that appears in that magazine which is incredibly funny to me.

More on the interesting side though is Mangajin, a magazine focused on teaching Japanese through Japanese culture, which of course includes manga. This one is especially interesting because it oftentimes features the only instance of the manga inside being translated to English.

And this is all just the tip of the iceberg. There's an insane amount of information and history in the magazines, and an exciting amount of unknowns with the frankly incredible amount of promotional DVDs that remain attached to so many of these issues.

I just have to get through it all.... which will take a long time. Will certainly be recruiting friends and whoever to help out, so hopefully I won't be doing this for the rest of my life haha

#anime haul #manga haul #anime magazine #manga magazine #viz media #viz manga #viz #dark horse comics #dark horse manga #yen press #anime #manga #anime and manga

[laboitediabolique]

Animerica magazine, Volume 2, Number 7, July 1994 Published by Viz Comics

#animerica #viz comics #anime magazine #ranma 1/2 #らんま 1 / 2 #1994

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#shortcake cake #short cake cake #suu morishita #margaret magazine #viz media #shojo beat #shoujo #shoujo manga #shojo #shojo manga #manga #poll

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

DON'T LOOK NOW -- BUT IT'S THE TERRIBLE TWO LOOKING FOR A LITTLE MAYHEM!

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Kei and Yuri of "The Dirty Pair," the then recently published manga series for Western readers by Dark Horse Comics -- Cover art to "Animerica" Magazine Vol. 6 #5. May, 1998. Published by Viz Media. Artwork by Adam Warren.

Source: www.animenostalgiabomb.com/animerica-dirty-pair-otakon-ani-magine-chroma-anime-cel-art-may-1998.

#The Dirty Pair #Animerica Magazine #Magazine #Animerica #90s Manga #Kei and Yuri #Kei & Yuri #Adam Warren #Dirty Pair #Science fiction #Manga Art #Girls with Guns #Lovely Angels #Dāti Pea #Anime/Manga #Cover Art #Viz Media #Sci-fi Art #1990s #Animerica magazine #Manga girls #1998 #90s manga #Manga #90s #Adam Warren Art #Magazines #The Dirty Pair: Start the Violence! #Sci-fi #Dark Horse Books

[engshoujosei]

Zone-00

4 out of 20 volumes (incomplete/dropped)

Licensed by Tokyopop, then by Viz Media digitally, but both stopped at 4 volumes.

In a world where humans and demons coexist under a fragile peace, change is coming...A mysterious drug, known only as "Zone-00," seems to be causing demons all over Tokyo to lose control and revert to their old, violent ways. Enter two young students who stand on opposite sides of an ageless conflict. One a demon, the other an exorcist, they must now join forces to uncover the secret of "Zone-00" before it's too late!

Status in Country of Origin 

20 Volumes (Complete)

Tags:

Abusive Character/s

Androgynous Male Lead

Android/s

Animal Transformation

Blood and Gore

Body Modification

Cannibalism

Clan/s

Contract/s

Dead Family Member/s

Demon Hunter/s

Drug/s

Engaged Couple

Eyepatch

Female Fighter/s

Fetish/es

Forbidden Love

Gunfighter/s

Hidden Past

Human-Nonhuman Relationship

Inventor/s

Kill or Be Killed Situation

Lecherous Protagonist

Manipulative Antagonist/s

Master-Servant Relationship

Mistaken Identity

Mythical Beast/s

Odd Situation/s

Opposites Become Friends

Promiscuous Character

Reincarnation

Revenge

Sadist/s

Sealed Power

Sexual Innuendo

Sibling Rivalry

Swordsman

Tengu

Trauma

Twin/s

Violence

War/s

Werewolf/ves

Witch/es

Yandere

#Zone-00 #KYUJYO Kiyo #action #fantasy #horror #supernatural #shoujo #manga #viz media #viz select #tokyopop #asuka #beans ace #Magazine Zero #Kadokawa Shoten #Biblos #2000 #2000s #incomplete #dropped #canceled

[unohanadaydreams]

I saw you asked where the Gotei 13 thing was from and it's a leak from the upcoming Weekly Shonen Jump!

Thank you so much for letting me know!!! At least that means we’ll be getting better scans of it soon, then.

#viz do me a favor and start printing SJ in english again just for this one magazine and then you quit again LMAO

[downthetubes]

Don’t miss out on grabbing a Doctor Who “Daft Dimension” cartoon by Lew Stringer

Don’t miss out on grabbing a Doctor Who “Daft Dimension” cartoon by Lew Stringer - or “Combat Colin”, either!

BEANO and Doctor Who Magazine cartoonist Lew Stringer, creator of Combat Colin, Tom Thug and more, has severed original artworks up for auction on eBay – including a “Daft Dimension” strip for DWM featuring the Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi. Some items close today, Sunday 12th March 2023, others later in the week. View all Lew’s items on offer here. On offer are… A Captain Wally page from…

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#Auction News #Buster #Captain Wally #Combat Colin #Doctor Who #Doctor Who Magazine #downthetubes News #Humour Comics #Lew Stringer #Oink #Tom Thug #Transformers #Viz

[mrlogicforeve]

PayPal and Venmo Commissions Open!

Yes I do draw

IM ONLY doing 1-3 characters

Stays SFW!

I'm probably gonna do my chance of

Digital or Traditional depends on which I

draw on

Yes OCs are allowed

NOOO! This is no my tea

No Loud House characters

No Owl House and Amphibia characters

Sorry I'm too lazy to do comics (I don't do

comics) because too lazy lol

Nsfw due to its rules of Instagram.

No Thomas the Tank Engine characters

No Requests that involves Underage nsfw

content or useless lolicon/shotacon shit

No Hate Art!

#artists on tumblr #wow #cool #digital art #traditional art #commissions #commissions are open #paypal #paypal commisions #south park #beavis and butthead #monster prom #vizcomic #viz magazine #kevin spencer

[stainofred]

Banana Fish Chapter 1 page spread from Pulp Manga for Grownups Issue 1 (1997)

#anime #banana fish #ash lynx #eiji okumura #akimi yoshida #viz media #viz manga #manga magazine #vintage magazine #vintage manga #my scans

[theviolenttomboy]

POKESPE SV IS GONNA BE RELEASED ONLINE!

Don't know what the release schedule is going to be like after the contents of the first volume are out, but we'll see. Either we have to wait every few months to read every new volume, or hopefully a RS situation where this goes monthly but we follow Scarlet while the magazines follow Violet (of course only if Yamamoto can handle it).

Site is here: [x]

Still. AAAAAH the first volume will be available to read online! VIZ JUMP ON IT THIS WOULD BE PERFECT FOR YOUR APP

#pokemon special #pokespe #as soon as volume 65 is out #there REALLY shouldn't be much to touch up there for a good while #AAAAH #im smiling like an idiot right now

[animehouse-moe]

Animerica Extra Volume 1 Issue 1: A Closer Look

Finally, finally finally I managed to get the first two volumes uploaded to the Internet Archive, which you can find here, and I really do recommend because of Tumblr image compression being kinda gross. Anyways, I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about the first issue of the magazine and what I really found interesting and cool!

First off is the advertisements that appear in the magazine. Considering the scope and popularity of the magazine, the "type" of companies that would advertise are somewhat different. I mean, AnimeVillage got the front cover ad. Not that they're a tiny company, but much like others in here, they're not a company that lasted incredibly long.

Still, what is incredibly interesting though is their website, which is still saved in the internet archive, though in a somewhat incomplete fashion, which you can find here. Anyways, getting to visit an old site like this is a lot of fun, mostly because of the personality that appears with it. Offensive and sharp color palettes, more than a few moving pieces, and a very blocky layout. Honestly, I think sites like this have a considerable amount more to offer in terms of heart and individuality than what modern web design has given us, but that's not the point. The point is that Animerica Extra provides people, specifically the community in this moment, with an experience from the past. I mean, AnimeVillage is from 1998, there's no way that the vast majority of anime or manga fans would even know about them as a company today.

Getting to the actual magazine itself though, there's just two things that I find interesting with the Table of Contents. Firstly, right at the bottom, just above the "Printed in Canada" statement, Viz offers a disclaimer (which you can't read here because of nasty Tumblr compression, so I'll transcribe it): "For the purposes of publication in English, the artwork in this publication is in reverse from the original Japanese Version".

Now, I don't have any OG manga volumes that were printed more like graphic novels, so I can't say for sure, but I find this disclaimer interesting. Either, a) this is a general disclaimer Viz gives about the difference between JP and English publication, or b) Viz is required to provide this disclaimer for the materials. Either way it's a very curious piece.

And then there's the "Vizit our World Wide Web Sites at www.viz.com...". Yes, Viz actually printed "Visit" as "Vizit" alongside "World Wide Web sites". Just such a blast from the past as to how the internet was viewed and interacted with.

And then there's the Yuu Watase feature from the first issue. I think it's something that doesn't immediately stick out to people in the modern day because hey, you just go to MAL or Manga-Updates and you can see everything that Watase's ever done like it's nothing.

But in the 80s that sort of accessibility was non-existent. I mean, like you'll see later on with the letters, people only found out about Animerica Extra through Animerica. It really highlights how valuable this sort of information was to the community during the era, because you simply just would not know anything about Yuu Watase without these pieces.

Similarly, you couldn't go and look up what a series was about on the internet, you only had word of mouth and direct interaction, so excerpts like these that give readers an idea of what is is they're about to read is incredibly important.

Just a quick aside here about advertisements. I know a lot of people will say, "but hey! There were TV ads during the 90s and 2000s that could be run for this stuff! Surely they could provide information and advertisement via that!", and I think the easiest answer is another question: can the modern day animanga industry manage that? Obviously not, no. The avenues that Viz could approach to advertise via were incredibly narrow, largely focused on anime specific storefronts or general comic stores, placing physical advertisement at the top of the pyramid, followed up by ads distributed via their tapes back in the day.

Anyways, back on track to the editorial for an interesting conversation! This one's very interesting to me for just one thing, really- the original sketch giveaway.

It happens today, rather frequently, but with caveats. It's not, "Hey we're running a giveaway so make sure to participate", it's "Hey we've got X mangaka appearing at a con so come for a chance to win their sketch!". The difference in the approach to the giveaway is entirely different. I don't know if I can really say that it's more accessible, but I think that it gives fans a greater opportunity to participate purely because it's cheaper, running on a far longer schedule (as the editorial mentions), and doesn't require in person attendance for the opportunity.

But to be fair, even those giveaways are only a recent thing as the animanga market's boomed. There was quite a long period of dead air in terms of this sort of activity, so I find it really interesting how the landscape has changed in how these now corporations approach these aspects of interaction with their communities.

Also, here's a link to the archived version of the website in the advertisement on this page.

And this magazine really just keeps giving more and more crazy information. This News Notes panel really surprised me. Yes, it's got a lot of plain information like upcoming or finishing anime, but most interesting is the information that the left column provides.

They talk about the mangaka of Steam Detectives appearing at San Diego Comic Con, and not only that, but bringing some early footage of the anime. I mean, that sort of thing has only just begun happening again in the last few years.

It's crazy to see how advanced and engaged Viz was back in the day with the industry overseas. Not that they aren't today, but that the curtain's been pulled across so we no longer get stuff like this in English.

Speaking of things like that, because of the disappearance of things like this, we don't get to see interaction between individuals and the companies. The letters section in this first volume is so interesting because of the era it comes from. The accessibility of information is immediately addressed with the first letter that talks about them finding out about Animerica Extra via the mainline Animerica. Then there's the very talented letter sending that sewed a decorative pillow for their friend. But I think my personal favorite is the nonsensical letter penned by Jonkani.

These magazines are just a gold mine of history and culture pertaining to the North American animanga industry and community, that I really think is important to be able to experience and understand as it contextualizes where this slice of entertainment lies in the modern day.

And this just the first issue of the first volume, there's still 73 more to go that provide all sorts of wonderful and curious information and interactions. Incredibly happy to be able to provide this to the community, but also very hopeful that being vocal with this will both make people more aware of a history that is "ours", and inspire those that have pieces of history like this to archive them.

#animerica #animerica extra #manga magazine #viz manga #viz #viz media #manga #anime and manga #shoujo manga #shoujo #shojo manga #manga history #anime history

[animenostalgia]

Some sad news to share - Shoujo mangaka Hisaya Nakajo, best known for her long-running series Hana-Kimi (For You In Full Blossom) has passed away at the age of 50 due to a heart condition. Hana-Kimi ran from 1996 to 2004 in Japanese shoujo magazine Hana to Yume, and was officially released in English in the US by Viz Media. The series revolved around a girl named Mizuki, who becomes so infatuated with high-jump competitor Izumi that she disguises herself as a boy to attend his all-boy high school to meet him. The series was popular enough to get multiple live-action dramas, including in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. While Hana-Kimi was her only big hit, it was popular not just in Japan, but overseas as well. RIP to a beloved shoujo manga creator.

#news #Hisaya Nakajo #Hana Kimi #hanazakari no kimitachi e #90s shoujo #shoujo manga #links out #death #for you in full blossom