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
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2015's Shonen Jump, issue 48, ad for "Madao's newspaper picnic sheet". Produced by Ensky.
The yellow text on the ad says, "Just the right size for a grown man to sit on?!" The red text on the announcement says, "With this, you too are a MADAO!" If you use it, will you become a useless old man as well?
The "newspaper" headline is about Gintoki apologizing for the show's return as Gintama° after the last "final" chapter.
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It is Sunday evening, you know what that means! Here is a new article where we put a spotlight on new music videos from Japan (week 38, 2023)
Since 2020, AVO Magazine has been publishing a list of seven music videos by Japanese artists in a variety of music genres (from pop to rock to metal) that we think you will find interesting!
This week we highlighted music videos from:
🍙 Atelier Room
🍙 Sinker
🍙 握りしめた2円 (Nigirishimeta 2 yen)
🍙 Cruyff In The Bedroom
🍙 炙りなタウン (Aburi na Town)
🍙 雨ノ弱 (Amanojaku)
🍙 RAY
Enjoy the music!
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