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KayOopa
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having a great time looking at old anime magazines on archive dot org

dog
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See the thing about this is that Dirty Pair was such a big deal in the early anime fandom that there was an original English-language comic - not adapted from any of the original storylines that ran 14 years from 1988 to 2002. (It's by Adam Warren, who I didn't really follow, but I guess he went on to do superhero comics.)

It feels weird seeing such non-anime art on the cover of an anime magazine but it was part of the trend where a lot of early fans were really influenced by early anime imports even though no one had really had time to study how to draw in that style yet. There was a lot more going on than just imitation.

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modulusshift
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Uh, Adam Warren's Empowered is...technically a superhero comic, I suppose lmao. It kinda naturally grew out of some fetish art commissions he had a steady customer for a long time ago, and it still has some of that flavor even though he began to take the characters much more seriously and actually came up with a pretty good story for it all.

He claims he's blacklisted by any respectable company. I dunno what to think of that, or why it would be the case, other than I suppose a general disrespect for adult-themed pulp like he seems to enjoy making.

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The short version is Warren went to japan and got himself introduced to the makers of Dirty Pair and proposed a comic book and they were like "hell yeah comic books are awesome" and just let him do whatever he felt like. I find the early ones really fascinating as a portal to the pre-Cartoon Network era and what a western audience thought of Dirty Pair in specific and anime in general. Anime was broadly defined by sex-and-violence OVAs and movies, so that stuff like Ninja Scroll and Akira was "normal" and the likes of Ranma 1/2 and other TV anime seemed deeply strange relative to that vision.

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We didn't have Cartoon Network over here in Canada, we had an anime fandom but the way stuff shook out in the rest of the English-speaking west compared to the US is a little distinct.

I got into anime in the mid-90s, so pretty late into the era that changeover was happening. The sex-and-violence VHS thing was definitely more of an 80s thing, but there was lots of it still at the video stores. I was a bit too young for my parents to let me rent it, but there was already a lot of other stuff available. Blockbuster had countless volumes of stuff like Urusei Yatsura, and Ranma 1/2 was a big deal - the local library had the full run of stuff like that and Video Girl Ai, which I binged as soon as I found out about it.

Reminds me of how I always found the narrative that Cartoon Network saved Sailor Moon interesting - it was already a huge deal in Canada years earlier, it just doesn't seem to have gotten to be as big a deal in the US until it aired there? Very different history despite the two countries being so close to each other.

French-speaking Canada had a really distinct anime fandom compared to the rest of the culture since manga was popular much earlier. Albator (Captain Harlock) aired on TV and the whole series was on VHS in French at a time when we got a single highly edited English tape.

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