45 TV productions including Xabungle, Baxinger, Macross, Space Cobra, and Captain Harlock: Endless Road SSX. 23 feature films including Gundam III, Queen Millennia, My Youth in Arcadia, and an Ideon double feature January Animec No. 21 Animage Vol. 44 The Anime Vol. 27 Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaa of the Valley of...

45 TV productions including Urashiman, Dunbine, Votoms, Orguss, Govarian, Cat’s Eye, Mospeada, and Vifam 19 feature films including Urusei Yatsura Only You, Crusher Joe, Harmagedon, and Final Yamato This was the year OVAs made their debut with Dallos as the first original production on the new format. January Animec No....

BELOW: this was a color proof of my first idea for the issue 3 cover (work in progress), which I drew and colored myself. I thought it would be disturbingly goofy if B-ko’s father was flying overhead with his generous package outlined (hence A-ko’s word balloon). Regrettably, I was the...

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After 12 years of experimentation with logos, formats, and page counts, the editors at Rebellion decided it was time for the Megazine to pick a standard and stick with it. They did away with the “volume” concept, which was always sort of arbitrary anyway, and probably existed only to lure...

With Prog 1700, the cover and logo format essentially locked into place with only minor adjustments between then and this writing (early 2025). The cover price went from £2.25 to £2.35 and the content went from one high point to the next with a well-balanced variety of SF, fantasy, and...

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...

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This batch takes us from August 2008 to August 2010, another two years of strong stewardship by Rebellion that further strengthened the quality and variety of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. All the classic characters got their turn with Judge Dredd as the tentpole in every prog. There were no format...

The Megazine had been going for more than a decade by the time we got here, but it was still capable of delivering a surprise or two. This run in particular, the first volume to start under the ownership of Rebellion, was loaded with puzzling choices. First, it changed size...

Above is my first crack at the opening page, which I had to redo when I was reminded that the statue had to face out toward the ocean. The revised version is below. Also, I consistently drew Captain Avatar’s peacoat too short on later pages. I fixed it after these...

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When I realized that the two biggest moments of this story could be linked by making both of them into double-page spreads, I felt like I’d unlocked a door to the universe. Sometimes comic book storytelling is pure magic. Back to main article

39 TV productions including Cyborg 009, Doraemon, Mobile Suit Gundam, Yamato The New Voyage, Gatchaman F, Rose of Versailles, and Blue Noah. 13 feature films including Galaxy Express 999, Aim for the Ace, and Lupin III: Cagliostro Castle. January Animage Vol. 8 OUT, March issue Quarterly Fantoche No. 1 Back...

40 TV productions including Traider G7, Legendary God Giant Ideon, Baldios, Legend of Marine Snow, New Mighty Atom, Space Battleship Yamato III, and Tomorrow’s Joe 2. 18 feature films including Tomorrow’s Joe, Phoenix 2772, Toward the Terra, Be Forever Yamato, and Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy. 1980 began...

As the brainchild of editor Shigeo Ogata at Tokuma Shoten Publishing, the Roman Album series has become so influential that the term is sometimes used to describe any form of anime-based book. Inspired in no small way by examples set in OUT and Rendezvous magazines, they examine their topics with...