It's 1991 and you're balls deep in this anime stuff, there's just one problem: It's not translated and you don't speak any Japanese aside from "konnichiwa" and "teriyaki," so what do you do? You could try and track down the handful of subtitled anime av… more »

Mega Comics was General Products' (GAINAX's merchandise arm) attempt to break into the burgeoning English language anime magazine market of the early 1990s, by offering something written by Japanese people and featuring the hottest information straight f… more »

Animag was one of the earliest attempts at a professional English-language anime magazine, first published in 1987. It managed to outlast most of its peers, but Animag shut down when many of the staff jumped ship to start up Viz' Animerica magazine. The… more »

Protoculture Addicts was first published as a Robotech fanzine back in 1987 by French Canadian college students operating out of a dorm room. They soon caught the attention of the company that owned Robotech, Harmony Gold, who gave them an ultimatum: giv… more »

Here's an odd one: a 254 page full color artbook published in 1986, in English, covering all 85 episode of Carl Macek's masterpiece Robotech. Bearing the title Robotech Art 1 and billing itself as "The Official Guide to the Robotech Universe," it contain… more »

Following the Gundam model kit boom in the early 1980s, Bandai's model kit marketing machine was relentless, and in terms of monthly periodicals it took two forms. The first and probably most familiar to western fans was B-Club Magazine, which spent abou… more »

"Japanese animation is science-fiction books on film. Done for an intelligent, literate audience with an appetite for variety (remember, most of it is based on manga). An audience that appreciates and accepts artistic expression in any form. This allows… more »