The overlapping world of "teen who buys manga at the local comic shop" meant Ranma 1/2 alongside weekly pulls of Spider-Man comics. It was seen as a niche within a niche of fandoms, anime news getting like 2 pages in Wizard a month, and Animerica magazine being 15% the page count of a Shonen Jump
Zero UtopiaGenuinely impossible to make people understand how much most the United States in the 90s hated and looked down on anime if they didn't live through it.
We actually talked a lot about this era on a @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social ep some years ago. We were joined by @miketoole.com to chat Ranma 1/2 and its impact on the North American anime market of the mid-'90s: whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/what-a-carto...
What A Cartoon!: What A Cartoon! - Ranma 1/2 "School is a Battlefield! Ranma vs. Ryoga" With Mike TooleWe wanted to go back to the primal days of US anime VHSes, and with the help of anime expert , we go back to the landmark series Ranma 1/2! How was the series created by Rumiko Takahashi and what was ...whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com
I was there buying ranma 30 pages comics as was buying x-men comic. Not knowing that the anime comic I was buying with ranma would be one of the hero’s of anime in the usa youtu.be/GzhSma8LsyE?...
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