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Anime Wink

@animewink.bsky.social

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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.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 7d

Why Anime Wink? It's the name of a long-defunct anime and manga store I ran across in an early 90s issue of Animerica a while back. And the name charmed me so much that I decided to adopt it for this account.

But yeah, welcome! 💜

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 6h

You get to burning
Face it proudly, as befits you.
Those days when you're enraptured are pieces of your dream
You get to burning
As you pick up those pieces,
I can see (you have) the courage to aim for tomorrow, to be...
Going your days. Grow up 🎶

A crt TV screen photo of the dvd menu for Martian Successor Nadesico volume 1. The main cast are gathered and posed to the right of the menus

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 15h

Ahh, thanks for linking! I'll check it out.

Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 15h

Cybernet: The Future of Videotainment. 📼

The Shadowrun 1E and Cyberpunk 2020 module vibes are so wonderfully strong with this ad for a store from a 1994 issue of Animerica.

"Welcome to the future of videotainment" a photo of a magazine ad for a geek store in Irving Texas. The ad has Cyberpunk 2020/Old Shadowrun module design vibes with late eighties style futurism and an illustration of a chromed up toned gal with long wild hair with AD Police on a wall behind her

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 15h

A lovely snapshot of the Spanish cosplay scene of the mid-2000s, with a gallery of photos from ExpoManga 2004 from Minami CD 49.

I was stateside attending anime cons in '04, so yeah, the cosplay costumes and way the photos are taken hits that nostalgia button. 💜

A group photo with FF8 themed cosplays (plus Tifa!)

A brown-haired Cloud cosplayer poses with a fittingly beefy buster sword to his side.

"I Am the Pretty Guardian Who Fights for Love and Justice!" A sweep group photo of Sailor Moon cosplayers, about fifteen in all, posed for a photo, with four of them, kneeling in front of the rest.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 16h

Yep! Two episode OVA in '96. It's an interesting choice for ADV to have picked up and dubbed, several years before the Fire Emblem boom outside of Japan.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 16h

xD It's an odd choice to try and hype up with a high-energy beat.

Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 16h

Do It Now with ADV in 1998

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 20h

Yeah! It's a genuine fear, especially with the rapid expansion of orbital objects in recent years that they couldn't fully predict even in the early 2000s, if launch trajectories ever become so cluttered with debris that spaceflight becomes impossible.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers! Toku history is something I'm weaker on, so I appreciate the info.

Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 1d

The rugged near-future sci-fi and space tech of PLANETES (2004, Sunrise).

Set in 2075, Planetes focuses around the day-to-day lives of a bunch of ordinary workers in 'Debris Section', responsible for keeping the orbital paths of Earth free of hazardous debris.

A shot of one of the main cast, Fee Carmichael, a tomboyish American with a shaggy mop of chin-length plum hair, at the controls of Toybox, the main debris-collecting vessel used by Debris Section, which has a mix of flatscreen displays and analogue buttons and sliders.

An exterior shot of Toybox, an oval spacecraft with a rugged industrial look to its design, like something you'd see conceptualized in the 70s for the year 2000.

Another orbital shot of Toybox in a vertical position, overlooking earth and starise.

A crt tv screenie photo of Ai Tanabe, the newbie and very idealistic gal who we see the show and its characters through, having a bulky helmet lowered onto her pressurized orange-brown space suit.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 1d

xD Yeah! Wildly popular over the decades.

Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah! I've covered a lot about Spanish anime/manga fandom this year over on my main account through digging into DOKAN magazine, and will be doing so too.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 1d

Even before Dorothée, national TV station Antenne 2 aired UFO Robot Grendizer, the third series of Mazinger, in *1978* under the title Goldorak.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 1d

There's a case to made that the French are the OG weebs (affectionate), as they got in early on anime thanks to the strong co-pro links.

Club Dorothée (1987) was one of those gateways: a hugely popular kids TV show. Among the anime they aired was Les Chevaliers du Zodiaque, aka Saint Seiya.

A crt tv screenie of a VHS recording of Les Chevaliers Du Zodiaque, with a white metallic looking dragon bathed in lightning behind the title card text.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 2d

They're back and they're hungry...

Published by Dark Horse Comics, Manga Mania was the UK's first manga anthology. Godzilla and Appleseed led the charge in its early issues.

📖: Manga Mania, August 1993

A photo from a page of Manga Mania issue two with a titanic reptile head rising up over an industrial ledge where a tiny speck of a person is yelling gyahhhh!!

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 2d

Futari ga kitto deaeruyouna mahou wo kakete
(Baby, baby, ooh-)

Let Me Be With You... 🎶

📺: Chobits, CLAMP/Madhouse, 2002

One of the thicker black line chibi-ish scenes of Chii sat demurely on her knees next to a TV cabinet and small crt tv as Hideki plays a fighting console game on the screen

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 3d

When anime DVDs came in clippy cardboard cases.

A peek at a vintage DVD release of an anime classic: Record of Lodoss War OVA. This is the Image Entertainment & US Manga Corps release of episodes 8-13 from 1998 and is a cool little artifact of those early releases.

A photo of the front of the cardboard cover with a black vertical clip holding it and the back together, with Parn and Deedlit on the cover, his sword raised.

A photo of the opened case, with episode summaries, and the yellow DVD with purple text on the right.

The back of the case with copyright and credits, and more episode summaries.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 4d

It's never too big a job for the Lovely Angels. 💜

📺: Dirty Pair OVA, 1987 (VHS)

A cool Bond style silhouette of the pair back to back in a scifi lens

Pew pew, but the Angels facing the viewer and pewpewing away

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 4d

Anime on the 199X and 200X Net: Thanks to Wayback Machine, we can dig into the Sheffield Space Centre's website in 2001.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 4d

Anime in Video Games: Shin Kidō Senki Gundam Wing: Endless Duel. Released in 1996 for the Super Famicom and developed by Natsume.

Top-notch 16-bit After Colony tournament fighter action!

A crt tv screenie of the side-on 2D fighting game with Wing Gundam getting ready to block a scythe attack from Deathscythe. All against a backdrop of a docks and fighting atop a flattop carrier.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 5d

The clash of blades as towering clockpunk mecha engage in formalistic battle.

📺: The Vision of Escaflowne (episode 3), Sunrise, 1996

A crt tv screenie of a scene from the DVD release, with two fantasy mecha, their designs something like Renaissance Italy might have come up with, clashing blades above a crowd of spectators.

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 5d

Hihi, @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social and @wiloverton.bsky.social: Do you know if this was a mascot used by the Space Centre or if it was one created by Anime UK for the ad?

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 5d

One of the hubs of early UK anime and manga fandom: The Sheffield Space Centre.

Their ads with this hella cool mascot are still some of my favourites to run across.

📖: Anime UK, 1992

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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 5d

Aha, you're welcome!

Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 5d

Chill vibes and friendship before the madcap mayhem kicks off. 💥

📺: Project A-Ko, 1986

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