The roughly mid-90's and earlier (generally pre-Toonami, pre-anime boom) era of anime & manga fandom: early cons, clubs, tape trading, Nth Generation VHS fansubs, old magazines & fanzines, fandubs, ancient merchandise, rec.arts.anime, and more!
usamimi wrote:Path--that Warrior Nun Areala video was apparently what they were trying to use to convince people to back an actual anime animated series. AP and Ben Dunn were trying to drum up money to pay Sunrise to animate it, but they never got completely funded...so that short video was all that ever got made. I remember there was a lot of buzz about it. I'm kinda sad it never got completed, the stills I saw from it actually looked kinda cool.
I think that was what inspired Chaos Comics to do that "Lady Death" anime with ADV later on, actually. (Which I never saw, but heard was fairly decent for what was basically a direct-to-video movie.)
At least Sacramento had (and still has) some very good comicbook stores. I collected issues of Mangazine and Sentai back when they were published. I sent a long letter to one of those zines (can't remember which). AP published it as an article and actually paid me $50! Those issues are probably crammed into the same bookcase as the other zines I was buying, Animerica, Protoculture Addicts, Anime UK, V.Max, etc. Now AP is putting out Girls of Steampunk zines. I have a gazillion issues of Ninja High School. Would they be worth anything now?
whitesnake wrote:At least Sacramento had (and still has) some very good comicbook stores. I collected issues of Mangazine and Sentai back when they were published. I sent a long letter to one of those zines (can't remember which). AP published it as an article and actually paid me $50! Those issues are probably crammed into the same bookcase as the other zines I was buying, Animerica, Protoculture Addicts, Anime UK, V.Max, etc. Now AP is putting out Girls of Steampunk zines. I have a gazillion issues of Ninja High School. Would they be worth anything now?
I often see Ninja High School in bargain bins at the local used book stores. I don't really think they'd be worth anything. Most anime magazines, the same thing. Sure eBay might have them for the same price they would have been 20 years ago, but I never thought they were worth more than $2-$5 each.
I'm not really a fan of anything they published, really, but I'd always respected Antarctic's ability to come out of the B&W boom of the 1980s and continue publishing for decades while many of their fellow publishers have gone out of business, and I always figured they'd do okay. Apparently that isn't the case any more; an attempt at mass distribution didn't work out so well and now they're in a bit of financial bother.
