Anime Wink

Chill vibes and friendship before the madcap mayhem kicks off. 💥

📺: Project A-Ko, 1986

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The main menu for Gundam Shop features a render of a glassy and blocky polygonal entrance.

Inside the shop! It's presented Myst-like with a rendered viewport of a model kit showroom with a Haro, a green round robot mascot, at the cashier's desk. Arrows and floor buttons control your navigation and you can click on any of the boxes on the shelves to see model kits

A photo of an RX-78-2 Gundam standing on a tabletop wargame-esque terrain board, towering over the green trees and shot in a very cinematic way.

When Gundam met multimedia CD-ROM in the 90s.

Bandai's Gundam Shop for Macintosh is a wonderful virtual Gunpla store and museum with photos of model kits, boxes, and info.

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US Renditions! A name familiar to elder otaku. Japanese animation home video order forms, all videos only $34.95. Black Magic M-66, Dominion Tank Police, Appleseed, and Gunbuster feature. Literal translations are promised.

From the pages of the Anime Con '91 Reference Guide, one of the things in our collection I treasure the most: the latest in home video from US Renditions.

Literal translations - you'll see translation vs localization often debated throughout the 90s.

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The cover of this issue of Kawaii with Sailor Moon posing on the cover against a backdrop of orange-tinged gradients and character faces.

Slayezsi! And The Magical Girl Pretty Sammy (the Tehcni spin-off series) gets triangular diagonal features on either side of a page.

One page of a multi-page feature on Satoshi Urushihara

A page featuring a whole mess of artwork from Legend of Limnear.

Kawaii! A truly cute bit of Polish anime fandom history from June 1997.

Sailor Moon features dominate this issue, though there's room for some Slayers love and a Satoshi Urushihara showcase.

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A crt TV photo of Yui seen in close up and from the front, rushing out of the house, a piece of toast in her mouth

Can I interest you in a piece of toast for breakfast this morning ?

📺: K-ON, Kyoto Animation, 2009

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The group shot at the end of the first Slayers intro with Lina, Gourry, Zelgadis, and others posed together in that very 90s anime way

"Where monsters rampage, I'm there to take them down! Where treasure glitters, I'm there to claim it! Where an enemy rises to face me, victory will be mine!" 🔥

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First of two photos of pages from the physical magazine. This one has various illustrations of the show's mecha and breakdowns of each part

Long limbed and sleek mecha, broken down part by part with quite a bit of info for each one

Mamoru Nagano's sleek and alien mecha designs for Tomino's Brain Powerd. (1998)

📖: Newtype, April 1998

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Outlaw Star - GO!

If you've followed me from my main account, you're likely already aware of my commitment to showcasing and exploring the anime and manga fandom of other heartlands of it outside the UK, Japan, and NA.

So, here we go with some Spanish and LatAm fandom: DOKAN magazine CD-ROMs.

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Why Anime Wink? It's the name of a long-defunct anime and manga store I ran across in an early 90s issue of Animerica a while back. And the name charmed me so much that I decided to adopt it for this account.

But yeah, welcome! 💜

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A red boxy mecha armed with 1940s-ey aircraft cannons on its shoulders flies by a bulky bulbous prop-driven bomber.

The warring nations of this era restore and get the 'decimators' back in working order and have retro-engineered some tech, but can't get it all working, especially when it comes to electronics. So you get mecha equipped with periscopes instead of view cams and machine guns rather than lasers.

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A very cool shot of a bulky green humanoid mecha flat on its back at the bottom of the ocean with a bunch of divers in old-fashioned diving suits clustered around and on it, attaching cables to lift it out of the ocean.

200 years after the space-time collapse, advanced mecha are discovered on a world now with a 1920s level of technology...

Orguss 02 has been one of those OVAs that's stuck with me ever since I first saw it on the UK Sci-fi channel in the late 90s.

📺: Orguss O2, J.C Staff, 1993-1995

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Got me wondering now how many polycules have their own colour scheme.

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A crt tv screenie of the intro to Magic Knight RayEarth TV with the magical gals posed together in that very 90s way of the characters all coming together to pose.

Hold on to the dream
Tomorrow knows, where and when
It's true, what you believe
Don't let go, the road will never end 🎶

📺: Magic Knight RayEarth, Tokyo Movie Shinsha, 1994-1995

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