Anime Wink

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Anime and manga history, nostalgia, and other cool stuff from around the world of anime fandom of the 70s to 20XX! Anime-on-DVD and VHS collector, anime magazine digger, and popular culture explorer. SysOp: @sharkabytes.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ She/her. UK.

An F.H.E (Family Home Entertainment) ad for Robotech with a very flashy and honestly pretty cool illustration of Rick and Lynn facing off against a battle pod, towering above them as Rick shields her from harm.
"A World engulfed by darkness. A mission fueled by flames." A photo of a magazine ad for WHB with the protag and several other characters posed in their trademark long coats, one red, and pistols pointing out from either side of her at the front.
A scan of the Bandai Emotion release of Dallos, with a brightly coloured pastel artwork of a brown haired young man holding up a sci-fi rifle up into the air against a nebula star sky.
A photo of a page with a promo for the three companies, with a cute female anime character in sailor uniform in the background.
A poster page from the magazine with a feature on Fushigi Yuugil. Miaka at the centre with several of the other pretty and handsome boys around her.
In a red sky, a strange, gigantic orb floats, a glass half open-lidded eye in the middle. Gothic structures jut from its surface, and a chequered floor can be seen below it. A figure stands, with an eldritch, spindly gun turret points toward it.
An Amiga AGA pixel artwork of a head-and-shoulders dynamic pose of Venus Wars' Hiro Seno in combat/biker armour,
A photo of two of the three VHS releases of dubbed Airbats, with one of the cases flipped to show the promo blurb and tagline.
A Matrix movie poster style ad for Planet Anime, with the Cowboy Bebop crew's heads edited onto Neo (Spike), Morpheus (Jet), and Trinity (Faye). Ein can be seen too, though it's just Ein.
A poster ad for Porco Rosso's VHS release, for sale or rental, in 1993. Lovely sunset above the clouds motif.
A snap of the opening page explaining what and who Grey is, how he wears a battered helmet with Lips, his girlfriend's name on it, and how he roams a 26th century earth wracked by perpetual conflict.
A screencap of a promo for the Viz published localization from a 1988 issue of ANIMAG
A photo of our copy of volume one, with its white and blue mesoamerican stone snake overlay. Nadia is featured on the cover in sunhat and dress against steampunk airships and aircraft .
A desktop wallpaper with a glossy cel-shaded illustration of Nuku Nuku in sailor school uniform winking and smiling, and screencaps either side ast the top.
A photo of a page from Animerica of most of the main cast, including Jim, Aeisha, and Gene.
A photo of the two DVDs alongside on another one a shelf. Deedlit and Parn clinging together are on one and King Cashue is on the other
A photo of an ad for Dirty Pair and Galaxy Fraulein Yuna on VHS for $14.99 and $19.99
A crt screen photo of the iconic scene with dozens of tanks ringing a cliffside highway overlooking flooded Tokyo
A photo of an ad for RahXephon with an illustration of the series's iconic angelic mecha
A photo of a full page ad in Animerica for OTAKON 2001. Guest lists, website details, and the facilities.
A close-up of red-pink haired Yoko Shimorenjaku in uniform with a cartoonish bat on her shoulder
A scan from Internet Archive of the contents and intro page, with some promo text about the state of the anime scene and how it's surging in popularity, and how Pioneer is a name you can trust, and how they'll only curate good stuff
Courtesy of the internet archive and the theanimevhscollector, a scan of a flyer with an anime guy and gal in profile kissing inside a round circle in the middle of the page. Coupons for $3 extra on trade in of DVDs and 10% off 2 or more videos can be seen below.
A scan of issue ten of Animeco - The Anime Connection fanzine, with an illustration of a soldier gal on the front, posing with a cheeky smile in skimpy fatigues and jean shorts and crop-top, with a bazooka on her shoulder. A
From the bluray: a shot of clusters of rocket nozzles solid rocket boosters igniting and debris falling from above
A photo from 2003 of a group shot of cosplayers in US Spacey uniforms, four kneeling and saluting, while five stand behind them, saluting and holding UN Spacy flags out either side.
A photo of a page from Newtype Japan from end of 1999, with an illustration of one of the mecha from the series and two of the characters in jumpsuits and pilot armour.
A photo of an ad from a 2003 issue of Newtype, with busty anime girls in beachwear smiling and sipping cocktails.
A scan of July 1998's Animerica issue cover, with a Macross Valkyrie in flight over a desert. The issue's music of Macross feature gets a highlight, as does Ronin Warriors and Galaxy Express 999.
A scan of a page from the issue with illustrations and character profiles for eeach of the Lodoss War OVA party, and a bit about the franchises' history, mentioning how it began as a Comtiq replay series.
A crt tv screenie of a Pokémon I Choose You! Pikachu! promo for volumes 1-8 on VHS dub and DVD for $14.98 and $24.98
A photo of the little card leaflet in one of our El Hazard Alternate World DVDs, with an offer for a set of Poker Deck cards if you collect all four special offer cards and send them for $4.00 shipping. This one has Qawoor on it
A crt tv screenshot of the colourful dvd menu for El Hazard: The Alternate World. Characters from the series are standing to the left of the paint blob menu options.
A photo of our VHS copy of Armitage III's episode 2 Flesh & Stone
A crt TV screen photo of a scene at night of an open air hangar with an F8E crusader parked up and two guys in overalls leaning against a dividing wall
A crt tv shot from the intro, with a towering Gundam dropping to its knees before a beam of light rising above a rocky wasteland
A crt tv photo of a scene from the first episode with Hot Ice Hilda, a space pirate, seen from the front with frizzy blonde hair, angular sci-fi shades, and a corded landline receiver held to her ear.
A photo of the Jan 1998 issue of Newtype opened vertically to show an Illustration Calendar 1998 with Mayumi Kino on the front
A photo of our copy, with Moa from Patlabor smiling and dressed in her orange vest and shirt/tie uniform, with one of the police mecha in profile behind her .
A scan of a cover ad for the OVA, with the classic sword through text Wizardry logo, and a wizardry dragon curling around a round frame in which a party of heroes can be seen, swords and staffs ready, with one leaning forward and swinging his sword out of the frame.
A photo of our Newtype USA issue one, with a large striking headshot illustration of Strike Gundam dominating it
A crt tv photo of the scene-setting intro, with a bunch of zaku mobile suits floating outside a Side, an orbital space colony
Artwork of Tessa and Chidori posed together, smiling at the viewer with Chidori giving a v-sign. Sosuke luirks in the background, pistol ready and on guard
A scan of a September 1997 calendar with Rei and Asuka posed together, with Asuka sat demurely, one leg raised in her red plugsuit, while Rei stands, her plugsuit tattered and bandages caught in breeze flapping around her
A Japanese ad for Gunsmith Cats OVA volume 3, High Speed Edge. It has an illustration of Rally angrily leaning over an open car door from inside.
A crt tv screenie of the game's interpretation of Motoko Kusanagi, looking like she's lost in pleasure, wired and visored up in a skintight bodysuit, as she controls Tachikoma's on a mission. There's a lurid vibrancy to it, from the reddish pink background to the hot pink of the Major's lipstick and parted lips.
A crt tv screen photo of a scene from Patlabor 2, with police staff in a slightly futuristic mech lab. One of them is casually sitting on a terminal edge, a boxy looking landline receiver in hand, with one of the police labors from Division II in the background, its head looming large.
A photo of a smiling woman in a black dress, a black and white cami, pink white stockings, and a flat hat with pink and white bunny ears, standing with bags in front of a crowd of peeps at con tables
The website banner gif for Otakon 1999, convention of Otaku Generation. Their scanlined red haired mascot is to the left
A photo of the six volumes of the series laid out in a grid at a titled angle, with the OVA resting on top of them, striking in its pink case compared to the pale blues of series.
A magazine ad for Burn Up Excess's complete dvd release from ADV. It has four vertical panels with the female leads of the series posing and winking.
A crt TV screenie of a scene with Tohru looking shocked at the dog and rat in front of her with an orange cat in her arms