Posted on January 12, 2025

Spinoff books, 1981-1983

Every publisher of anime magazines branched out into book publishing during these boom years, bringing their own editorial and design style to several of the same subjects. These publishers were creating other books (Akita Shoten in particular invested heavily in film comics) and many other publishers were jumping on the anime band wagon at the time, but this list is limited to those that carried the same branding as the magazines.

Tokuma Shoten, Roman Album series (Animage)

39. Cyborg 009 (movie)
Jan 1981

40. Cutey Honey
1981

41. Naughty Kumkum of Old
1981

42. Mobile Suit Gundam movie 1
May 1981

43. Space Battleship Yamato III
June 1981

44. Gundam movie II
Sept 1981

45. Adieu Galaxy Express 999
Sept 1981

46. Future Boy Conan
Nov 1981

47. Space Warrior Baldios

48. Legendary God Giant Ideon
TV series, April 1982

49. Queen Millennia movie
May 1982

50. Gundam movie III
May 1982

51. Ideon movies
Aug 1982

52. My Youth in Arcadia
Sept 1982

53. Yamato Perfect Manual 1
Jan 1983

54. Yamato Perfect Manual 2
Jan 1983

55. Six God Combination Godmars
1983

56. Final Yamato
May 1983

57. Battle Mecha Xabungle
July 1983

58. Fairy Princess Minky Momo
1983

59. Galaxy Cyclone Braiger
1983

Kindaieigasha (The Anime)

Mobile Suit Gundam

Leiji Matsumoto Anime Fantasy World

Tomorrow’s Joe 2

Cyborg 009 movie

Ideon

Baldios

Godmars

My Youth in Arcadia

Final Yamato

Rapport Publishing, Rapport Deluxe series (Animec)

1. The Space Shuttle

2. Gundam Part 2
(Animec Vol. 16 was part 1)

3. Future Boy Conan

4. Ideon

5. Lupin III: Cagliostrio Castle

6. My Youth in Arcadia

7. Godmars

8. Xabungle

9. Space Battleship Yamato

Gakken (Animedia)

Gundam movies

My Youth in Arcadia

Ideon

Godmars

Space Battleship Yamato

Crusher Joe

Harmagedon

Final Yamato

Genesis Climber Mospeada

Miniro Shobo (OUT)

In addition to Gundam Century, the company also launched a series titled OUT Anime Parody Comics, shortened in issue 2 to Aniparo Comics. Such comics had long been a staple of OUT magazine, and now they had their own title released twice a year.

Akita Shoten (My Anime)

My Youth in Arcadia Anime Graph