Sunday 28 August 2016
June 1990 Pt.1 Mangajin Magazine
Consisting
of 80 pages (including front & back covers), with a Cover price
of $4.50. Mangajin was Distributed by KINOKUNIYA BOOKSTORES (in the
U.S.) & was available in Japan through SEKAI SHUPPAN KENKYU
CENTRE (Tokyo) First (Pilot) Issue Volume 1 #1 Printed June 1990,
start of print run August of 1990. Last issue published Volume 7 #70
November\December 1997. Mangajin was published 10 times a year,
Monthly except for January and July each year.
Editor &
Publisher Vaughan Paul Simmons (Based in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.)
The
Mangajin Project (as its Editor refers to it) issue one is such an
oddity of a point in time when interest in Japan went a little
deeper, from a fascination of modern Japanese business practises, and
it's almost unknown alien culture to that America. With
Hollywood movies like “Black Rain” staring Michael Douglas and
Andy Garcia, and Yusaku Matsuda that was only released in September
of 1989 in America still fresh in people's minds.
A
magazine aimed at helping those interested in the Japanese language,
studying both its politeness and slang, alongside what business
tourists may want to add to their understanding.
I
have only included a few samples of what you would find within the
pages of Mangajin from my own view as someone that appreciates all
aspects Japanese manga, in the hope it will spark a search for
knowledge in you the reader.
[NOTE:
By the late 90's Mangajin had ceased being published, it did have a
presence on the Internet, sadly that too is now in the past - using
the Internet's Archive Way-back machine
http://web.archive.org/web/20110215113738/http://www.mangajin.com/
you can discover the WASABI BROTHERS Trading Company run by....]
The Contence page (just look at the variety, and the scope).
A few words from the Editor.....
Supporting Advertisement from VIZ COMICS, showing popular Translated Managa of the past few years.
How to make Sushi.
Tanaka-Kun (Salary-man) by Hiroshi Tanaka.
What's Michael? by Makoto Kobayashi.
HOTEL by Shotaro Ishinomori
(better known in the West for his Anime 'Cyborg 009' and his creation of live-action series 'Kamen Rider' ).
If you lived in 'Los Angeles', 'New York', or 'San Francisco' you had access to a Kinokuniya Bookstore, and a copy of mangajin.
Supporting Advertisement from ECLIPSE INTERNATIONAL and featuring a production from STUDIO PROTEUS (the translation company founded by Toren Smith).
Your Janpanese vocabulary at a glance!
The future of Mangajin, what's coming next!?
Not only does West meet East, but now you know that the city of Atlanta, is the birthplace of CocaCola, is also the birthplace of Mangajin.
[Note; a 7 year old link may still work if you are looking for resources thespectrum.net mangajin ]
{Note: I did not have a subscripion to this magazine, but chose to pick it up at Comic-book stores around England in the early 1990's, it may have been months or even years before an issue would get to the UK.]
Thursday 18 August 2016
May 1990 Pt.7 Anime Kyo UK
Anime Kyo UK
This Page is under continued development, and its Links will be updated from time to time.
A
continuing fact page will also be updated.
A time of
'Pen and Paper', a time of ' Scissors & Pritt Stick glue', when
Photocopiers re-sized Artwork and printed whole Fanzines, who knew
Desk-Top-Publishing was done on a table or on the floor?!
Having found paperwork
from my Anime club, and personal letters of correspondence from my
old Pen-pals, as well as the month of May being the time when I was
having treatment for Cancer, I will have to make a great deal of
effort to show the transition from Novice Anime Fan and consumer of
all things Anime, to an enabler, connecting Fans far an wide, to a founder of a local
Anime Club that developed beyond its Shire borders.
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Dated August 2016, August 2017
Post 77 American Fandom
And now another break
from the chronology of the past.
I thought you would
all like to know that with a road-trip up to Sheffield Arena on
Saturday 13th. Of August 2016 I attended the
“FILM & COMIC CON Sheffield” run by Showmasters,
just on the off chance of picking up some old Translated manga from
the 80's and 90's (they are in the same format & style as any
American imported comic-books, not like modern Manga that is in the Diary format).!
Out of the six or so
stalls that sold manly DC & MARVEL comic-books, one would have
ten random issues of manga, and one of those was now to replace a
lost comic-book that many a UK Anime and Manga fan would have read
back in 1989, if remembering it for its 'Letters Page'.
Appleseed
Book3 Volume 2,
September,1989
American Appleseed
Cover painting by Adam Warren
American Appleseed Logo
designed by Tom Orzechowski
Editor Fred Burke
Editor-in-Chief
Catherine Yronode
Publisher Dean Mullaney
English translation by
Studio Proteus
The Letters Page.
For what I am so thankful for is a comic-book fan Dan White writting to the Editor Fred
Burke, and that his letter about the cost of Anime (on VHS) was published in the Letters Page.
[NOTE: The reply was
signed Toren Sez, with the tone of someone who knew the industry in
Japan, could this have been Toren Smith founder of Studio Proteus and
supporter of Comic-Con giving his insight?]
[NOTE: These two
American Anime Fan Clubs (Earth Defence Command, Anime Hasshin) would be an early part of my own Nexus into
a wider Fandom, linking me with other Fans in the UK and forever
changing my life.]
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