You get to burning Face it proudly, as befits you. Those days when you're enraptured are pieces of your dream You get to burning As you pick up those pieces, I can see (you have) the courage to aim for tomorrow, to be... Going your days. Grow up 🎶

Cybernet: The Future of Videotainment. 📼 The Shadowrun 1E and Cyberpunk 2020 module vibes are so wonderfully strong with this ad for a store from a 1994 issue of Animerica.

A lovely snapshot of the Spanish cosplay scene of the mid-2000s, with a gallery of photos from ExpoManga 2004 from Minami CD 49. I was stateside attending anime cons in '04, so yeah, the cosplay costumes and way the photos are taken hits that nostalgia button. 💜

Do It Now with ADV in 1998

The rugged near-future sci-fi and space tech of PLANETES (2004, Sunrise). Set in 2075, Planetes focuses around the day-to-day lives of a bunch of ordinary workers in 'Debris Section', responsible for keeping the orbital paths of Earth free of hazardous debris.

There's a case to made that the French are the OG weebs (affectionate), as they got in early on anime thanks to the strong co-pro links. Club Dorothée (1987) was one of those gateways: a hugely popular kids TV show. Among the anime they aired was Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque, aka Saint Seiya.

They're back and they're hungry... Published by Dark Horse Comics, Manga Mania was the UK's first manga anthology. Godzilla and Appleseed led the charge in its early issues. 📖: Manga Mania, August 1993

Futari ga kitto deaeruyouna mahou wo kakete (Baby, baby, ooh-) Let Me Be With You... 🎶 📺: Chobits, CLAMP/Madhouse, 2002

When anime DVDs came in clippy cardboard cases. A peek at a vintage DVD release of an anime classic: Record of Lodoss War OVA. This is the Image Entertainment & US Manga Corps release of episodes 8-13 from 1998 and is a cool little artifact of those early releases.

It's never too big a job for the Lovely Angels. 💜 📺: Dirty Pair OVA, 1987 (VHS)

Anime on the 199X and 200X Net: Thanks to Wayback Machine, we can dig into the Sheffield Space Centre's website in 2001.

Anime in Video Games: Shin Kidō Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Duel. Released in 1996 for the Super Famicom and developed by Natsume. Top-notch 16-bit After Colony tournament fighter action!

The clash of blades as towering clockpunk mecha engage in formalistic battle. 📺: The Vision of Escaflowne (episode 3), Sunrise, 1996

One of the hubs of early UK anime and manga fandom: The Sheffield Space Centre. Their ads with this hella cool mascot are still some of my favourites to run across. 📖: Anime UK, 1992

Chill vibes and friendship before the madcap mayhem kicks off. 💥 📺: Project A-Ko, 1986

When Gundam met multimedia CD-ROM in the 90s. Bandai's Gundam Shop for Macintosh is a wonderful virtual Gunpla store and museum with photos of model kits, boxes, and info.

From the pages of the Anime Con '91 Reference Guide, one of the things in our collection I treasure the most: the latest in home video from US Renditions. Literal translations - you'll see translation vs localization often debated throughout the 90s.

Kawaii! A truly cute bit of Polish anime fandom history from June 1997. Sailor Moon features dominate this issue, though there's room for some Slayers love and a Satoshi Urushihara showcase.

Can I interest you in a piece of toast for breakfast this morning ? 📺: K-ON, Kyoto Animation, 2009

"Where monsters rampage, I'm there to take them down! Where treasure glitters, I'm there to claim it! Where an enemy rises to face me, victory will be mine!" 🔥

Mamoru Nagano's sleek and alien mecha designs for Tomino's Brain Powerd. (1998) 📖: Newtype, April 1998

Outlaw Star - GO! If you've followed me from my main account, you're likely already aware of my commitment to showcasing and exploring the anime and manga fandom of other heartlands of it outside the UK, Japan, and NA. So, here we go with some Spanish and LatAm fandom: DOKAN magazine CD-ROMs.

Why Anime Wink? It's the name of a long-defunct anime and manga store I ran across in an early 90s issue of Animerica a while back. And the name charmed me so much that I decided to adopt it for this account. But yeah, welcome! 💜

200 years after the space-time collapse, advanced mecha are discovered on a world now with a 1920s level of technology... Orguss 02 has been one of those OVAs that's stuck with me ever since I first saw it on the UK Sci-fi channel in the late 90s. 📺: Orguss O2, J.C Staff, 1993-1995

Hold on to the dream Tomorrow knows, where and when It's true, what you believe Don't let go, the road will never end 🎶 📺: Magic Knight RayEarth, Tokyo Movie Shinsha, 1994-1995