Tuesday 22 April 2014
February 1990 Pt2. Japanese Anime Magazines
The fruits of
establishing a rapport with a little Japanese book shop called 'Books
Nippon' (Nippon Shuppan Hanbai) based in London.
Not reading a word of
Japanese did nothing to hinder my enthusiasm for Anime and Manga, and
with no monthly English magazines being produced at the time, you
needed to go to the source, and there were a few Japanese magazine
focusing on Anime.
'Animage',
'Animedia',
'Anime V' (New Video Magazine.),
'Newtype' (the moving
pictures magazine.).
In picking up an issue
of each of the most popular 4 magazines, I then decided to selected 3
of the magazines for mail-order subscription to test the water so to speak, and
see what all the fuss was about!
[Note: at a off the
self cost of £7.99 then and at today's value (inflation) would be £15.38
each.]
[UPDATE: February 2023 £7.99 is worth £23.24 today.]
[Note: Little did I
know at the time, that 'Animage' ran the infrequent serialization of
the comic-book 'Nausicaä of
the Valley of the Wind' - Written and illustrated by Hayao
Miyazaki, one of my all time favourites! - What a fool]
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