An ad for the Valley of Wind BBS in California, made on a Tandy Color Computer 3. It had three 9600 baud modems!
Here I will make a page dedicated to notable relics of the golden age of anime fandom from the '80s and early '90s, back when discovering anime was like stumbling across a secret cave of treasure that nobody knew of. A time capsule of sorts, if you will. These are items from those nostalgic days before "anime" became a household word. Heck, we called it "Japanimation" at the time. I already have a page dedicated to laserdiscs that I continue to update, so I won't overlap these two pages. Here we go.
Anime art books.
Here's my shirt of the Anime Archive BBS from Phoenix, Arizona. This was a time before I knew much about the internet at all. In fact, later when I was in college, the SysOp of the Anime Archive once showed me this thing called the "world wide web" and it was a fan's website dedicated to Kimagure Orange Road. Far out! It even had pictures. It blew me away.Anyhow, this is the back of the shirt; the smaller inlet image is from the front left breast area. Two local Arizona artists were commissioned to make this shirt.
This was my first AnimEigo Bubblegum Crisis T-shirt.
I bought this Macross shirt at Atomic Comics.
This Lum shirt is also from Atomic Comics.
The Bubblegum Crisis Complete Vocal Collection vols. 1 & 2. These are actually not "complete" because they do not include music from the final episode 8, "Scoop Chase." There is a more complete soundtrack collection that does feature episode 8's music, but that's beyond the scope of this page since it came out several years ago.
The Wings of Honneamise soundtrack was done by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Fantastic music.
The CDs of Kimagure Orange Road, Loving Heart and Sound Color 1.
Kurenai no Buta/The Crimson Pig/Porco Rosso CD soundtrack.
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu/Legend of the Galactic Heroes CD soundtrack.
Majou no Takkyuubin/Kiki's Delivery Service CD soundtrack.
US Manga Corps even released a Project A-Ko soundtrack. The vocal music for Project A-Ko is in English anyway, so why not? At the time, anime soundtracks pressed in North America were a rarity.
Probably the biggest anime soundtrack at the time that was released for North America was the Akira soundtrack by JVC to go with the movie's release by Streamline Pictures.
Robot Carnival's beautiful OST was released by JVC for North America. Another movie released by Streamline Pictures.
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