Otaku Print Archive

Anime drawing technique from Animerica Magazine Volume 6 Issue 2 (February 1998)

Manga Entertainment VHS ad featuring Street Fighter II and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (sequel to Tetsuo: The Iron Man)

"Thanks Manga Video Fans for a Great '97... Get Ready for a Killer '98!"

2007 ad for Persona 3 for PlayStation 2, the fourth game in the Persona series,which was a spin-off from the Megami Tensei franchise

"School's almost in!" Persona 3 is the first Persona game to focus heavily on school life and other social simulation elements, which the series would become known.

A guide to generations of anime fans from Manga Max Number 7 (June 1999):

1: The Astro Boy Generation (pre-1967)
2: The Old Timers (1967-1977)
3: The Yamato Generation (1977-1987)
4: The Akira Generation (1987-1997)
5: Otaku Nation (TODAY)

Selected pages from the guide showing the staff and some of the panels, screenings and schedule. The entire guide is available to read at the link in my pinned post.

Otakon '95 program guide cover

Held in State College, PA, this was the second Otakon overall, and the only ever Otakon to take place over 4 days. The convention was moved to Maryland the next year.

Guests included:
Teruo Kakuta, also known as "Kondom"
Trish Ledoux
Robert Woodhead
Toshio Okada

ADV Films DVD ad (2001)

ADV Films ad for Azumanga Daioh Collector's Edition DVD boxset(2004)

Ad for Katamari Damacy for PlayStation 2, the first game in the Katamari series (2004)

ADV Films VHS ad featuring Slayers and Dirty Pair Flash (1999)

NEW UPLOAD: Manga Max Magazine Number 7 (June 1999)

Featuring:
-Stories on Perfect Blue, Dirty Pair, Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl, Parasite Eve, Fake, and Water Margin
-Interview with Satoshi Kon and Katsuhito Ishii
-Anime, manga, and movie reviews
and more

Leiji Matsumoto and Haruhiko Mikimoto are wild bookings. That's cool.

Flyer for AnimeCon '91, a one-time joint venture between Studio Gainax, San Francisco Bay Area convention Baycon, and manga import and translation company Studio Proteus

The guest list at the bottom of the flyer is pretty incredible!

Ad for anime on VHS from British distributor MVM Entertainment featuring Bubblegum Crisis and Riding Bean (1999)

Short interview with series creator Hideo Kojima about the upcoming seventh game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, as well as a Casting Call for a Metal Gear Solid movie from GamePro Issue 254 (November 2009)

Ad for the first Persona game by Atlus (1997)

Ad for Satoshi Kon's Paranoia Agent on DVD by Geneon (2004)

"THE MADNESS SPREADS 10.26.04"

Ad for Digimon Rumble Arena for the PlayStation, a fighting game set in the Digimon universe with similar gameplay to Super Smash Bros. (2002)

Short article from 1999 on the upcoming sentai series Bunny Knights: Musketeers of the Millenium Kingdom, focused on 3 female heroes with character designs by Haruhiko Mikimoto (Macross, Megazone 23)

The first episode is available subtitled in English on Youtube (although not in amazing quality)

Kawanishi Ken

The sculptor's artist page on MyFigureCollection: myfigurecollection.net/entry/8282

Ad for Neon Genesis Evangelion figures by Kaiyodo (2005)

This project is what would eventually become the 2009 CGI Astro Boy film, but not before at least 2 screenplays were written and scrapped, including one by Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack, and writer/director of The Powerpuff Girls.)

Short article from 1999 about the purchase of the film rights for Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy by Jim Henson Pictures, which was owned by Sony.

Ad for the Urusei Yatsura manga published in English by Viz Media from Animag (1987)

Viz published the series under the titles "Lum*Urusei Yatsura" and "The Return of Lum", but halted publication after nine volumes. It did not resume until 2019, with a new translation and the original title.

ADV Films VHS & DVD ad from Official Sega Dreamcast Magazine Issue 4 (March 2000)

"Your Neon Escape from a Mono-Chrome World!"

Ad for Fullmetal Alchemist figures by Square Enix (2005)

Ad for Kanji de Manga, a series of books that teach Japanese kanji through manga, from Mega Manga (March 2005)

I have a few of these!

Ad for MangErotica, a line of hentai manga published by Eros Comix, the adult-oriented imprint of American comics publisher Fantagraphics

From Mega Manga (March 2005)

Ad for anime on VHS from U.S. Renditions, a division of Books Nippan, who released the first subtitled direct-to-home anime videos for the American anime market with Gunbuster and Dangaioh in 1990

From V.Max Volume 1 Issue 4 (1991)

Ad for Taiko: Drum Master for PlayStation 2 from PLAY Issue 35 (November 2004)

Taiko: Drum Master was the first title in the Japanese Taiko no Tatsujin rhythm game series to be released in the U.S., and the only one until Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! in 2018