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PingSoni
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I miss the old magazines. I cried when I received my final issue of Shojo Beat.
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AJ (LordNikon)
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As an 81 year old man, and 80s fansubber, this is nostalgia piece is very depressing. It reminds me of how much industry has changed since I got tapes secret from my younger brother at Sunrise and made pirate tapes in 1987. If you told me future we can watch anime on phone I would think you crazier than Star Trek fan. I still have every issue of Animerica from when I moved to USA from Japan till they stopped publication.
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KrowRhogan
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I had isssues of Animerica. I also had issues of Protoculture Addicts. Remember that?
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marshmallowpie
 Posts: 300 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada |
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Good article. I'm too young to have read Animerica in its heyday, but I have a few issues I picked up at con in 2010, and every bit of every page is fascinating. It's amazing how quickly things changed.
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gordonfreeman1
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Loved Anime Insider, another popular magazine at the time. These magazines should all be digitised into publicly, globally accessible libraries for future generations to see. Some of the features, layout and general hijinks simply don't exist anymore or wouldn't work in an online select-your-own-article/short attention span format.
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animefan1238
 Posts: 299 Location: Ma |
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Animerica came at me at the right time. I was starting to expand my knowledge of anime and wanted to see more than what was being shown on TV. It gave me so much information that I digested it as much as I could. I brought an issue with me on my class trip to Washington DC and when we stopped in NYC I bought my first ever box set because of a review from Animerica(The World of Narue). I eventually subscribed by asking my mom. I still have a few issues as keep sakes. It was a great magazine and opened the anime world to me.
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Gem-Bug
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Fun and nostalgic article, thanks! I personally never had any copies of Animerica, but I remember often going to the public library as a teen in the early 00's and looking at various non-tv franchise manga(Guyver, Mermaid Forest, Ranma 1/2, Tokyo Pop's Sailor Moon, etc) and these often had ads for the magazine. Around this time I had also signed up to receive physical mail from Viz, and still have the Shop-By-Mail 2002 catalogue. This item, too, had ads for Animerica and all the little synopses for Anime/Manga old and new(at the time) and of every genre really opened up the world of Anime to me. I did end up collecting Anime Insider for a while, including the inaugural half-issue that didn't even have the finalized title yet.
On a related note, I'm certain that these fond memories went towards me choosing libraries as my career, and print media in general is very important to me. |
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Key
Moderator
 Posts: 18285 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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Good nostalgia piece. Pretty sure I still have several issues of Animerica laying around somewhere. (It was in its heyday when I first started getting big into buying anime DVDs, so I purchased it somewhat regularly as an add-on to my anime purchases.)
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NeoStrayCat
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Yeah, I remember Animerica, even got one of those mini-issues they had that the article mentioned (Borders/WaldenBooks and Best Buy), but otherwise, it had a good run.
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Alan45
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I still have a box of Animerica Magazine in storage. Too good to throw away and no one to take them.
 Every thing from 1997 when I got into anime and a couple dozen back issues I picked up from various sources.
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mdo7
 Posts: 6311 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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Oh man, I didn't become a anime fan until 2006 (meaning I didn't have access to the magazine like the one featured in the article), and as a history nerd, this is a nice way to show newer and younger anime fans that want to know what it was like to be a anime in the 90's, and the pre-Youtube/streaming and pre-social media era, this is how we got information about anime back then.
If you want to see more of these anime magazine in the US from decades ago, you can go to Anime Nostalgia Bomb (created by Lance Heiskell, who used to worked at Funimation). He has scans of Animerica, Animag, Anime Insider, Mixx Zine, Protoculture Addicts, etc... These are perfect time capsule of North American/US anime fans in the 90's. Again, great nostalgic article and a great way to teach younger and newer anime fans about the history of North American anime fandom, and how we got information about anime/manga back before social media, and streaming helped anime where it is today in the US. |
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Triltaison
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Still planning to try and complete my set. I only have a few issues here and there, but I've been working on actually completing several of the periodicals from that era because I love them so. The letters to the editor, news reports, and everything just make me smile.
I've completed Manga Vizion (remember that one?), Animerica Extra, Shojo Beat, and Dark Horse's Super Manga Blast. Just missing two issues from Pulp and a handful of the final issues of Shonen Jump. Animerica is next on my list to start tracking down, actually. Protoculture Addicts, too. But seriously. If anyone has some of these laying around, dig out an issue and laugh at the time capsule in the reader letters. I was reading some of my old issues a few months back, and came across a lovely editor response explaining how they appreciated that the reader was really hopeful Dragonball would come out in English soon but that Viz didn't think it would do well in a Western market. Another fun one was an upcoming spotlight on Evangelion with early and inaccurate information (I think Asuka was listed as the main character and was labeled as Rei iirc), back when it was still thought to be a standard mecha. I also liked the one complaining about the speed with which Ranma 1/2 was coming out, predicting that it would take years to finally complete (which it did, like 20 years ago). I had a ton of fun reading those things. |
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nyaa
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I have most of those mini issues you could get at Best Buy but my thing was NewType USA. I have all but 2 or 3 issues that were published. I also have a big collection of Rightstuf catalogs.
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Mongoose
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I used to buy Animerica, Anime Insider, and Newtype. I remember Animerica as having the better articles, but I think Anime Insider had last man standing, which I truly enjoyed. I was very sad when they all stopped publishing.
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kgw
 Posts: 1109 Location: Spain, EU |
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Maybe you don't get it inside the US, but for those of us outside the US, Animerica (and Anime UK) was the lifeline for European otakus who didn't speak a word of Japanese. So much so that every fanzine basically photocopied and translated their pieces. Without bothering to credit the source, of course. And it also had its problems, because while in Europe the big hits were Dragon Ball and Saint Seiya (or Captain Tsubasa), Animerica didn't really care about them. But it was the closest we had to knowing what would happen in Japan, or unknown new series... |
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