A crt screen photo of the iconic scene with dozens of tanks ringing a cliffside highway overlooking flooded Tokyo

Moments before the Angel's Rise in the endless cicada summer.

A photo of an ad for RahXephon with an illustration of the series's iconic angelic mecha

The Winged God Awakens: RahXephon.

📖: Newtype USA, March 2003

Ahh, thank you for investigating and asking around!

XD I do 💜

A photo of a full page ad in Animerica for OTAKON 2001. Guest lists, website details, and the facilities.

Leading the Millennium's Otaku: OTAKON 2001.

Guests included: Toshihiro Kawamoto, Hikaru Midorikawa, Adam Warren, and Steve Bennett.

A close-up of red-pink haired Yoko Shimorenjaku in uniform with a cartoonish bat on her shoulder

A shot of three of the squadron in orange flight suits in front of a jet.

A pilot snarls in her cockpit as she grips the flight stick and prepares to make a banking turn

One of the now more obscure 90s OVA's: 801 T.T.S. Airbats. (Studio Fantasia, 1994)

The trials and tribulations of an JSDF aerobatics squadron.

Oh yeah, me too. I was spending as much on new dvds and manga a month in the early 2000s.

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

Anime is Hot!

Ryo-Ohki greets you and has all the hot titles in '95 as Pioneer goes on a charm offensive with its range of VHS's and Laserdiscs.

📖: Panime Pioneer Anime Catalogue, 1995.

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.

"Babbages Software Etc now carries anime on VHS and DVD!"

As the Year 2000 turned and the anime bubble swelled larger still: a new source of mainstream store shelf presence.

Ah, hopefully!

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

Anime fanzine fandom in Hawaii in 1998: The Anime Connection. (Animeco)

Produced by the Japanese Animation Society of Hawaii, with the first issue in 1996. Scanned issues dry up at ten on Internet Archive, and I haven't yet found anything else about how many issues it ran for.

From the bluray: a shot of clusters of rocket nozzles solid rocket boosters igniting and debris falling from above

An isometric shot of the rocket from the movie, clouds of smoke rising from the ignition

A shot inside the capsule of the protag, Shirotsugh, in his dieselpunk-ish spacesuit, surrounded by instruments

“Is anybody down there listening to this broadcast? This is mankind’s first astronaut. The human race has just taken its first step into the world of the stars.”

📺: Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, Hiroyuki Yamaga/Gainax, 1987.

From a Kawaii magazine CD in '02: One of my favourite OPs: Full Metal Panic. 🔥

Nice! 2004's was my first Animexpo, then again in '06.

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.

Join the UN Spacy! 🫡

Macross fandom at Animexpo 2003.

Yeah! It's a 12MB file, which is bigger than most I come across, but it's still a cut above them on compression.

From a 1998 Spanish anime encyclopedia CD called Anime Robot: Esca... flowne! Esca... flowne!

The series that truly hooked me into anime.

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.

Spirituality, mysticism, politics, and mecha: Gasaraki.

On three disc formats in Japan as 1999 dawned: LaserDisc, Video CD, and DVD.

One of the more under-the-radar mech shows these days, but from the amount of coverage it gets in Newtype, it was a big deal then.

A photo of an ad from a 2003 issue of Newtype, with busty anime girls in beachwear smiling and sipping cocktails.

There's no mistaking a Robert's Anime Corner Store ad when you're flicking through the pages of Newtype USA.

A magazine ad with an address and contact details on the left alongside the products they stock, from artbooks and manga to CDs and trading cards. There's an illustration of a sporty-looking anime catgirl with a purple ponytail and frizzy bangs wearing a red leotard and in mid step presenting the text above with a smile

"To be continued..."

Spanish and Catalonian early 2000s anime and manga store ad cuteness, where they have the latest releases every month - and a cute catgirl mascot.

📖: Minami issue 32

A scan of Kawaii issue December 1997, with Oh My Goddess on the cover as the feature artwork, and highlighted features on Akira, Ranma/12, Newtype, Evangelion, and Battle Angel Alita, and Kosuke Fujishima.

Anime! Manga! Anime! Manga!

Spotlight on Polish anime fandom: Kawaii, published by the Krakow-based club of the same name.

The computer demoscene had also been key in sparking interest, including anime and manga features in computer magazines such as Secret Service.

Oh, nice! Do you post your scans online?

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.

Enjoy the Summer of Love with Macross 🎶

📖: Animerica, July 1998

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.

From replay to light novel to TTRPG to OVA and now over to PCE CDROM. Character profiles and a Record of Lodoss War history rundown for PC Engine RPGers eager to play through the events of the OVA.

📖: PC Engine Fan, November 1991

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

As the millennium turned, it's time to catch 'em all on VHS and new kid on the mainstream media block, DVD.

📺: Pioneer Promo, 2000.

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

You, too, can get an exclusive deck of El Hazard playing cards, courtesy of Pioneer in 2000.

Yeah! It's amazing how short a window it was for everything El Hazard.

Yeah! Yeah, it's amazing how short a window it was for everything El Hazard.

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.

Welcome to an Alternate World… El Hazard!

Second TV series of the multi-series, manga, and OVA franchise that spanned 1995 to 1999.

Yeah! Totally is. One of my favourite Gundam series.