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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 · 30/12/2025
Hyperspace gate exit in post-Earth Exodus solar system, 2071. When asked about the gates and how hyperspace works, Shinichiro Watanabe once described it like old movie film, where regular space is the visible frame and hyperspace is the gaps between the frames.
A screenie from the DVD Remix release showing the Bebop emerging from a swirling maelstrom in space. Ships, gate portal infrastructure, amd guidance rings, surround it.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Snapped from an Anitype CD-ROM: A cornucopia of cosplay at Anime Expo 2003. A con I'd attend a year later, and I remember seeing these FF8 cosplayers then too.
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 tablesA group photo of Final Fantasy 8 csplayers, with Squall, Rinoa, Selphie, and Edea.Naruto cosplayers posing in the open airA staged battle between Inuyasha and Sesshomaru against a big banner of Inuyasha anime artwork
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Recorded from Patlabor TV DVD volume 1 (2002 US Manga Force/CPM: The special DVD-ROM menu and features you'd get from popping it into a PC DVD drive.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku appreciation for your late 90s desktop. 800x600 resolution of worth of cat-brained android from a Commodore Amiga fan CD.
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Robotech! Now on Video Cassette in 1985! Just shy of ten bucks apiece. The gateway to wider anime appreciation and fandom for many back then. Which is why I feel it's such an important thing in the annals of anime outside of Japan, despite its infamy of Macross plus other stuff glommed together.
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Battle stations! Planet Latis is under threat! Lord British reaches out to Planet Gradius and three ace pilots for aid. Salamander, Studio Pierrot's 1988 three episode OVA, adapts the first three games of the Gradius series, adding character and political drama and featuring music from the games.
A screenie of the Salamander logo. A sleek red and white fighter against a background of a curving lava wavePilots in bulbous ships plunge down through the cloudy atmosphere, a close-up of one of the pilots in a clear canopy cockpit wearing a white and green-visor helmet close to the camera.Lord British, a blonde, long-haired pretty boy, considers with fingers curled against his head, the situation of the threats ot his world.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Enjoy the Summer of Love with Macross 🎶 📖: Animerica, July 1998
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Anime featuring Church-sanctioned witch/vampire/occult hunters seen to have been one of those things that popped up in a little bubble for a few years in the early 2000s. Witch Hunter Robin (2002,Sunrise) is my favourite example of that from the time.
"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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Where it all began for anime OVA's: Hisayuki Toriumi and Mamoru Oshii's Dallos. (1983). Just pipping another production to the post as the first direct-to-video anime, and the first direct-to-video animation anywhere.
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
From a 1995 calendar that was in an archive of files for one of the PC-98 Record of Lodoss War games: an adorable illustration of chibi mischief and adventure.
A ocloured sketch page of chibi drawings of a whole host of Lodoss War characters in various fun poses, including Deedlit, Parn, Woodchuck, Pirotess, and Ghim.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Anime inspirations: Streets of Fire (1984) Fusing 50s rock-and-roll aesthetics with 80s cybernoir dystopia, SoF was an influential cult hit in Japan. One of the most direct influences can be seen in Bubblegum Crisis, with Priss' performance an homage to SoF's Ellen Aim and the Attackers.
A crt tv screenie of the first episode of Bubblegum Crisis, with Priss the Replicants performing in front of a concert crowd. A snap from Streets of Fire, with Ellen and flanked by a pair of teddy boy rockers and drummer behind her, with a silhouetted crowd in front of her.A snap of Ellen bathed in red light singing in close to a 50s style metal micA shot of Priss close to a similar looking mic, gripping it in hand and seen in profile.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Hentai, bishōjo, and an early online hub for otaku merch: the early years of JAST USA, J-List, and the announcement of Milky House. 📖 : Protoculture Addicts, July 1999
A photo of a page with a promo for the three companies, with a cute female anime character in sailor uniform in the background.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
One of the other core isekai series of the 90s: Yuu Watase's Fushigi Yuugi. (1995) Anyone familiar with the series and watched it through may now have "Tamahome!" "Miaka!" "Tamahome!" "Miaka!" ringing in their ears at the mention of it. 📖: DOKAN, Octoner 1998
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano's combined vision of a gothic world drowning in silence and decay. Now back in UK theatres and well worth experiencing on the big screen. 📺: Angel's Egg, 1985
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. A victorian-esque street of narrow townhouses, aged and decaying. A small girl stands by a grotty looking fountain, in front of which hunched figures, semi substantial, can be seen.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Anime on Commodore Amiga! World of Manga, released in 1993, is an Italian demoscene slideshow 'prod'. There was frequent crossover between the Amiga/ST demoscene and European anime fandom, with both screencaps of popular shows and pixel art fan tributes often shared.
An Amiga AGA pixel artwork of a head-and-shoulders dynamic pose of Venus Wars' Hiro Seno in combat/biker armour,
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"The "Right Stuff" has never been so nicely packed!" Ahem. (The Right Stuff refers to post-WWII high-speed test pilots) 801 T.T.S. Airbats (1994-1996, Studio Fantasia) is a seven episode OVA focused around the slice-of-life misadventures of an all-female JSDF acrobatics squadron.
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Planet Anime's movie-edit ads are a little treasure. 25% off domestic tapes and 20% off domestic DVDs all the time! 📖: Protoculture Addicts, July 1999.
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Soaring from the big screen to videotape in 1993: Porco Rosso. As vintage inter-war aviation is one of other things I'm fond of exploring, Porco is one of my favourite Ghibli movies. 📖: Technopolis, December 1992
A poster ad for Porco Rosso's VHS release, for sale or rental, in 1993. Lovely sunset above the clouds motif.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A snippet from the 1998 dub of Panzer Dragoon OVA (1996) Studio Giants, Production I.G, and a whole mess of other companies doing bits and pieces on it, including Studio DEEN and Gainax. They try to cram a *lot* into a touch over 25 mins.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A manga series (and movie!) that I'd forgotten about, but had a little niggling remembrance of when I watched Girls' Last Tour and saw how that played around with WWII military vehicles. Just couldn't place the name of it until today. Yoshihisa Tagami's Grey (1986).
A screencap of a promo for the Viz published localization from a 1988 issue of ANIMAG
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Scrapping off a few cobwebs, and kicking off some new, regular posting with a voyage into infinite space. Pulled from a 2002 Minami CD. 📺: Lost Universe (1998) 🎶: Infinity 👩‍🎤: Megumi Hayashibara
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Minami brings the 🔥 with FORCES. Composed by Susumu Hirasawa, who extensively used Commodore Amigas in his early composition career.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Lovely covers full of scientific romance: Vol 1 of ADV's 2001 ten-volume release of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
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 .
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku appreciation for your late 90s desktop. 800x600 resolution of worth of cat-brained android from a Commodore Amiga fan CD.
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Casting a spotlight on Outlaw Star in September 2000's Animerica. Collectively, this show got a lot of coverage in ani-mags around the world from 98-2000. About as much as its space cousin, Cowboy Bebop.
A photo of a page from Animerica of most of the main cast, including Jim, Aeisha, and Gene.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Two of the personal crown jewels of our anime collection: Image Entertainment's (and US Manga Corps) 1998 two-part DVD release of Record of Lodoss War OVA. If you picked up DVD movies early on, you may remember buying these cardboard and black clippy frames releases.
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
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
When he's not observing fiendish scheming of conquest from tall grass or staring into destiny in the setting sun, Metalder is not above delivering boxes of puppies. If you're familiar with VR Troopers, then you've seen bits of this. 📺: Chōjinki Metarudā/Super Android Metalder, 1987
A crt tv screenie from a Club Dorothee special of our toku hero, all shiny and chrome and red and blue, crouching in tall grassHe stares into the setting sun, seen from behind, knowing that his work at thwarting the Neros Empire is done for the day. But they will return for many more episodes yet.A box of small dogs is given to human ally, a camerawoman named 
Mai Ougi, who looks delighted with this canine companion delivery service.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Available for the princely sum of 16,000 yen but on the futuristic format of the 80s, LASERDISC: Daicon III and IV Opening Animations. Unofficially released in 1988 due to legal entanglements, this now rare release compiled the short movies created by animators who'd go on to form GAINAX.
A magazine ad for General Products with Daicon III and IV LD advertised by an enthusiastic bunny girl and chibi school girl giving a v sign, along with some other products including Five Star Stories and DragonQuest.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
When Final Fantasy meets Anime. Well, at least by the way of its most famous illustrator: Yoshitaka Amano! More than a hint of Elric of Melniboné in the character design for the titular protag - and in the surreal nature of his world. Fitting stuff for Amano's dreamy art style.
The DVD release artwork for Amon Saga, with a long haired, cloaked swordsman with his sword drawn and extended, seemingly caught in a strong wind against an almost white background
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
ADV Films: More collateral damage per episode! Guaranteed! Especially true with Dirty Pair! 📖: Tokyopop magazine, August/September 1999
A photo of an ad for Dirty Pair and Galaxy Fraulein Yuna on VHS for $14.99 and $19.99
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Moments before the Angel's Rise in the endless cicada summer.
A crt screen photo of the iconic scene with dozens of tanks ringing a cliffside highway overlooking flooded Tokyo
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Winged God Awakens: RahXephon. 📖: Newtype USA, March 2003
A photo of an ad for RahXephon with an illustration of the series's iconic angelic mecha
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Leading the Millennium's Otaku: OTAKON 2001. Guests included: Toshihiro Kawamoto, Hikaru Midorikawa, Adam Warren, and Steve Bennett.
A photo of a full page ad in Animerica for OTAKON 2001. Guest lists, website details, and the facilities.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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.
A close-up of red-pink haired Yoko Shimorenjaku in uniform with a cartoonish bat on her shoulderA 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
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
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.
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
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"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.
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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.
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
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“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 the bluray: a shot of clusters of rocket nozzles solid rocket boosters igniting and debris falling from aboveAn isometric shot of the rocket from the movie, clouds of smoke rising from the ignitionA shot inside the capsule of the protag, Shirotsugh, in his dieselpunk-ish spacesuit, surrounded by instruments
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
From a Kawaii magazine CD in '02: One of my favourite OPs: Full Metal Panic. 🔥
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Join the UN Spacy! 🫡 Macross fandom at Animexpo 2003.
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
From a 1998 Spanish anime encyclopedia CD called Anime Robot: Esca... flowne! Esca... flowne! The series that truly hooked me into anime.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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 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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
There's no mistaking a Robert's Anime Corner Store ad when you're flicking through the pages of Newtype USA.
A photo of an ad from a 2003 issue of Newtype, with busty anime girls in beachwear smiling and sipping cocktails.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"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 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
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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.
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Enjoy the Summer of Love with Macross 🎶 📖: Animerica, July 1998
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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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 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.
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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 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
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
You, too, can get an exclusive deck of El Hazard playing cards, courtesy of Pioneer in 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
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Anime Wink @animewink.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Welcome to an Alternate World… El Hazard! Second TV series of the multi-series, manga, and OVA franchise that spanned 1995 to 1999.
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.
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