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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

New to the Otaku Archive: Project JACO, Spring 1997 Issue: The official fanzine for the Japanese Animation Club of Orlando. Includes coverage of the group's trip to Anime Weekend Atlanta. Uploaded by: Severance Link: archive.org/details/proj...

Cover of Project JACO's Spring 1997 issue, which features members of the group posing n front of a sci-fi landscape

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New to the Otaku Archive: Project JACO, Spring 1992 Issue: The official fanzine for the Japanese Animation Club of Orlando. Includes series overviews for Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Ranma, a subtitled anime source list, and more. Uploaded by: Severance Link: archive.org/details/proj...

Project JACO Spring 1992 cover, which features three anime characters looking off-camera as a spacecraft rises up behind them

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New to the Otaku Archive: Project JACO, Fall 2000 Issue: The official fanzine Project JACO Fall 2000. Includes reviews for Giant Robo, Final Fantasy IX and Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, as well as a tutorial on buying cels online. Uploaded by: Severence Link: archive.org/details/proj...

Project JACO cover, featuring an image of Daisaku from Giant Robo, saying "Get us to JACON now, Giant Robo!" accompanied by the text, "Will Daisaku make it in time?!"

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New to the Otaku Archive: Project JACO Vol. 5 No 1 Spring 1998 - This issue of the Japanese Animation Club of Orlando's fanzine includes the Anime Fan's Required Viewing List, as well as reviews for various CDs and games from the era Link: archive.org/details/proj... Uploaded by: Severance

Cover of Project JACO's Spring 1998 issue, which depicts a person in a spacesuit, holding a gun as they climb a tower

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

New to the Otaku Archive: Project JACO Vol. 6 No 1 Spring 1999 - This issue of the Japanese Animation Club of Orlando's fanzine explores the AMV scene. Also includes reviews on Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and several anime reference books. Link: archive.org/details/proj... Uploaded by: Severance

Cover for Project JACO Vol. 6 No. 1, which features an anime girl in a JACO tube top and bellbottoms leaning on a car

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

New to the archive! Project JACO from Winter 1997, a look at Anime Weekend Atlanta 3, a report from the AWA chairman, it's mostly about AWA. Uploaded by Severance archive.org/details/proj...

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

From the Otaku Archive: Animerica Digest, Spring 2007 Edition - One of the final gasps of Animerica magazine, this 44-page mini-magazine was given out for free at stores like Best Buy and Waldenbooks. Link: archive.org/details/anim... Uploaded by: Severance

Cover for Animerica's Spring '07 issue, featuring the lead character from The Prince of Tennis posing against a yellow background

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New to the Otaku Archive: Central Park Media's 2002 "Anime Zone" catalog. This PDF catalog details the company's available titles, including listings for Utena, Slayers, and more. Link: archive.org/details/cent... Uploaded By: Samantha Ferreira

Cover for Central Park Media's 2002 Anime Zone catalog that depicts three female anime characters in a yellow circle, against a black background

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

From the Otaku Archive: Animag Issue #1 - the first issue of a publication that, while not long-lived and plagued by delays later in its existence, served to lay the groundwork for all professional mags that came after it. Link: archive.org/details/anim... Uploaded by: Severance

Cover for Animag #1, which features artwork from Zeta Gundam

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New to the Otaku Archive: Press release from Dentsu announcing that they would acquire Pioneer LDC and Pioneer Entertainment. Though not announced here, the two entities would be renamed to Geneon upon acquisition. Link: archive.org/details/pres... Uploaded by: Samantha Ferreira

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Press Release - Dentsu To Acquire Pioneer Entertainment and Pioneer LDC : Dentsu : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Press release from Japanese ad firm Dentsu announcing that they acquired Pioneer LDC and Pioneer Entertainment

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

From the Otaku Archive: Billboard - July 27, 1991 - Central Park Media Adds Japanimation Vids - a two-page article that covers Central Park Media's entry into the North American anime market with their first license: Minna Agechau. Link: archive.org/details/bill... Uploaded by: Samantha Ferreira

Scan of the article "Central Park Adds 'Japanimation' Vids" from Billboard Magazine

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

New to the Otaku Archive: Central Park Media's 2005 "Anime Zone" catalog. The PDF catalog detailing their titles, including listings for Utena, Slayers, and more. Link: archive.org/details/cent... Uploaded By: Samantha Ferreira

Cover for Central Park Media's 2005 "Anime Zone" catalog, which features art for Korean animated film Hammerboy

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

From the Otaku Archive: Anime-zine #1: The first major commercial anime magazine, Anime-zine was founded by Robert Fenelon in 1986. This inaugural issue featured Megazone 23 as a cover story, and an article on Nausicaa. Link: archive.org/details/anim... Uploaded by: clarissag

Cover for Anime-zine #1, which eatures artwork of Megazone 23, presented in stark red-and-black

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

New addition to the archive, Project JACO Summer 1998, the Japanese Animation Club of Orlando. They take a look at buying anime through the mail, a look at Megacon '98, a review of the Escaflowne and Eva soundtracks and a look at Yotoden. archive.org/details/proj...

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Project JACO Summer 1998 : JACO : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is Project JACO the fanzine of JACO The Japanese Animation Club of Orlando. This volume 5 number 2 from summer 1998. This issue contains: Kancho's ...

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

From the Otaku Archive: Press release from Right Stuf announcing that they licensed The Irresponsible Captain Tylor. This would for its charming story and cast, as well as for being the testbed for TRSI's "Fansub Amnesty" program. Link: archive.org/details/pres... Uploaded by: Samantha Ferreira

The Right Stuf International Inc. For Immediate Release

From: — Jeff Thompson RE: “The Irresponsible Captain Tylor” The Right Stuf International, Inc.

Date: 8/15/97

The Right Stuf International is pleased to announce the acquisition and impending release of “The Irresponsible Captain Tylor.” This 26 episode television series has been at the top of anime fans’ “must see’ lists for years, and will be available for the first time ever in the US. The series will initially be presented subtitled, with dubbed versions becoming available in 1998.

The time is the distant future, and two civilizations are preparing for interstellar battle. The problem is that the UPSF’s forces are stretched to the limit, and the Raalgon Empire has declared war on them. One thing is certain: both sides are undergoing massive internal power struggles and there is going to be a great deal of useless killing before it's over. Anyone in the army has to seriously question their commitment and their sanity. And, then there’s Tylor.

Justy Tylor is for all outward appearances a bumbling clod, a directionless 20 year old man on some distant future world. Drifting aimlessly, he gets it into his head that enlisting in the military would be a good way to glide through life and collect a nice fat pension after an invisible career. One would think someone like this wouldn't even be let in the door, let alone given the chance for glory. Tylor, though, has perhaps the most disarming manner in the Universe... there isn’t a person alive who can out-charm him. Even with this ability, common wisdom dictates he wouldn't get very far before someone caught on and quietly buried him someplace unimportant (pretty much what Tylor wants, actually). That’s where his second gift comes in: he’s usually an excellent judge of people.

Winding up with a command of his own, the Soyokaze (“Gentle Breeze”, a ship with a reputation for going through commanders) and its crew venture out in search of the enemy in defense of their homeland. The crew views this outsider with contempt, if not outright hostility. It looks like Tylor is about to join the long list of people who were driven out of the military or are dead. The planners hate him too: they'd be very happy if he simply failed to return from his patrol. The Raalgon? They've got a score to settle with him as well. Nope ... it doesn’t look good at all for Captain Tylor. Just don’t try to explain it to him... he'd probably just fall asleep.

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

From the Otaku Archive: U.S. Manga Corps' Anime Expo 1993 panel. Hosted by John O'Donnell. The audio is a bit low, but this is a fantastic example of what industry con panels were like in the earliest days of the anime industry. Link: archive.org/details/ax-9... Uploaded by: Ryan Gavigan

John O'Donnell, wearing a T-shirt and cap, sits next to a man with a beard at a table in a convention hall. Posters for US Manga Corps' releases are set up at the front of the table

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

From the Otaku Archive: Flyer for AnimeCon '91, the first N.A. anime con to feature Japanese guests Guests included: - Kenichi Sonoda - Leiji Matsumoto - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto - Haruhiko Mikimoto - Toshio Okada - Johji Manabe Uploaded by: Severance Link: archive.org/details/anim... #anime #history

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Also in the Otaku Archive: Buffalo Crisis Volume 2 Issue 8 (September 1991) The Science Fiction Animation Confederation's of New York's official fanzine, with a cover story for Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory Uploaded by: Severance Link: bsky.app/profile/otak...

Cover for Buffalo Crisis Volume 2 Issue 8, which includes line art from Gundam 0083 set against a yellow background.

Cover price: $1.00

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

New to the Otaku Archive: David L. Williams' Usenet post from February 12, 1996, announcing that A.D. Visions had licensed Neon Genesis Evangelion. Uploaded by: Samantha Ferreira Link: archive.org/details/anno...

David Williams
Feb 12, 1996, 3:00:00 AM

Coming this summer from A.D.Vision!!!!!
Evangelion

The hot action-packed TV series currently taking anime by storm, comes to the
U.S. in a newly created OVA version. This is the SAME story, SAME action but
with all NEW high quality animation!!! This series will be released with two
episodes per VHS tape in both subtitled and dubbed versions and as a
bilingual/close captioned LASER DISC!

Final release dates and prices to be announced.

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David Williams
A.D.Vision Internet Liaison
dlw@advfilms.com
http://www.advfilms.com

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Otaku Archive Project @otakuarchive.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hello! Welcome to the official account for the Otaku Archive project, a collective project from several members of the anime community that aims to preserve important documents, artifacts, and more from the anime fandom and industry. We'll be posting updates here going forward, so give us a follow!

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