Yoshiyuki Sadamoto original sketch sweepstakes from Animag Volume 1 Issue 3 (1987) A founding member of Studio Gainax, Sadamoto was the leader character designer for Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, Neon Genesis Evangelion, FLCL, and others

NEW UPLOAD: Broccoli International 2005 Catalog Broccoli International USA was established in March 2002 to manage the Japanese media company's copyrights in North America. (continued below)

Ad for "The Best of Japanese Anime II" mail-order VHS club by Columbia House (1999) For a small fee, the subscriber received a new VHS every 4-6 weeks, and had 10 days to decide to purchase each tape for $19.95-$24.95 plus shipping and handling

Nos EUA, Dragon Ball Z começou a passar no Cartoon Network em 1998 e acabou só em 2003, no Brasil começou em 1999 e acabou em 2001.

Ad for new episodes of Dragon Ball Z on Cartoon Network's Toonami (2003)

I've never seen the show itself, but the trailer they used to show for this is a spectacle of "ain't no mickey mouse" anime marketing. Just full of panties. They really said "this is what the whole show is". www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov0j...

Ad for new manga series from Tokyopop (2007)

Agent Aika: Final Battle sell sheet by U.S. Manga Corps (2000)

Ad for the PlayStation port of Pocket Fighter, a fighting game featuring super-deformed versions of Street Fighter characters first used in the puzzle game Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (1998)

JPN101: Japanese words related to summer from Anime Insider Issue 22 (July 2005)

1996 Summer Sale ad by TEC Sales, a New Jersey-based mail order distributer specializing in mature anime, both imports and domestic releases (1996)

NEW UPLOAD: SHE Japanese Sinema & Culture Volume 2 Number 15 (2001) Warning: NSFW SHE Japanese Sinema & Culture was published irregularly by Draculina Publishing.

Interview with Mamoru Oshii from Raijin Game and Anime Issue 3 (January 2003), in which he discusses his 2001 Polish-language film Avalon and his other live action work, digital technology, and his then-upcoming theatrical compilation film Killers

Spotlight on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex from Raijin Game and Anime Issue 3 (January 2003)

Interview with Yasuhiro Nightow from Raijin Game and Anime Issue 3 (January 2003), in which he discusses his career, the anime adaptation of Trigun, the role of guns in his works, and the recent game Gungrave for which he provided character designs.

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Pikachu's Playhouse: DVD reviews from Australian magazine GBA World Issue 6 (December/January 2004) DVDs reviewed: Haibane Renmei, .hack//sign, Voices of a Distant Star, and The Matrix Reloaded

Today's Topics from Raijin Game and Anime Issue 3 (January 2003): The 18th Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival, Animation Runner Kuromi, the second Otaku Speed Vibe anime rave, DJ Sharpnel, and new releases from experimental music label Ryoondo-Tea

Good Feelings Japan Game Ok!: Highlighting eight interesting games from Japan From Electronic Gaming Monthly Issue 170 (September 2003)

World Karting parece ser muito sem graça.

It Should Be a Game: Ideas for PlayStation games from readers of Official Australian PlayStation Magazine (2000)

Amanatto: 4-koma manga by artist COM from Raijin Game and Anime Magazine Issue 3 (January 2003)

It also had Miyazaki proto Porco Rosso comics bsky.app/profile/andr...

That’s an interesting logo they used for Battle Angel, I don’t think it made it to any of the home video releases

Ad for the 1993 OVA Battle Angel on VHS from A.D. Vision

Mamotte Shugogetten also got a second chance in the late 00s by TokyoPop, so that makes 6 out of 15 titles from Raijin Comics (that are listed on Wikipedia, at least) that have been given second chances after Gutsoon died. Sadly, the only one remote still plausible now would be Fist of the Blue Sky

It's honestly amazing how much of Raijin's catalog has not only been license rescued in right now... but 4 of them are happening all at once right now! Baki, City Hunter, Legend of Keiji, & Slam Dunk (just got a new release announced). Fist of the North Star is also still in print & complete.

Ad for Raijin Comics, an English-language manga anthology magazine published 2002-4 by Gutsoon! Entertainment and partially funded by Sega (2003)

The club I was in (NOVA - Northern Oregon/Vancouver Anime) tried to get a Portland anime convention going in the late 90s but couldn’t achieve critical mass (I think we did one or two “NOVAcaine” conventions in a big barnhouse one of the members had. It took U of O’s anime club to make it happen.

iirc, kumori means cloudiness, which is fitting for Portland

Ad for Portland, Oregon's Kumoricon (2007)

Ad for online DVD rental service Anime Lane (2007)

Special ad by Geneon commemorating the 10th anniversary of both Seattle's Sakura-Con and the publication of Kouta Hirano's manga Hellsing (2007)

Ad for Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep, a prequel to the first game and the sixth to be released in the franchise (2010)

NEW UPLOAD: Sakura-Con 2007 Program Sakura-Con 2007 was held April 6–8 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Washington, and marked the con's 10th anniversary. Over 10,500 people attended.

Anime News Network ad (2007)

Good morning, Bluesky. It's time to strap on our bunny ears and save the world. 🐰

Review of Persona 4 from PlayStation The Official Magazine Issue 13 (December 2008)

Ad for Haré+Guu on DVD from Funimation (2007)

OH this mascot is CUTE cute~

Ad for British Columbia's Anime Evolution convention and cultural festival featuring mascot AE-chan by Sephi Kitsune (2007)

Ad for Resident Evil Code: Veronica X on PlayStation 2 (2001)

Donate to the Internet Archive: archive.org/donate?origi... Links to full magazine for each post: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Ad soliciting Sakura-Con 2007 attendees to sign up for Microsoft's Playtest program for a chance to win a Zune

Letters commemorating the 2007 10th anniversary of Seattle's Sakura-Con, from: The Governor of Washington The President of the Asia-Northwest Cultural Education Association (the organizers of Sakura-Con) The Mayor of Seattle King County The Seattle Consul-General of Japan

Ad for Onmyodo Footwear, "Footwear for the Otaku Generation" (2007)

Ad for Bust a Groove 2 on PlayStation (2000)

Ad aimed at retailers focusing on shoujo manga titles available from Viz (2004) "Watch Your Sales Bloom! Brand New Shôjo for Spring"

The Fan-Tastic World of Otaku: A guide to types of otaku as represented by characters from Genshiken from Anime Insider Issue 22 (July 2005)

Ad for Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete Collector's Edition on Playstation and the official strategy guide for the game. Eternal Blue Complete is a 1998 remake of Lunar: Eternal Blue, the second game in the series (2000)