Happy Halloween!

Oh man, this is pure gold. From Animage Magazine.

Mark. 1, Part 2!

Huh? Are you people still here? Very well, come and view yet another post from this grotesque menagerie of a blog. Here are yet more scans from the Japanese magazine Mark 1.

Fan art time! Sure a lot of the drawings have awful anatomy and many are vaguely pedophilic, but at least there's no Naruto.

Gotta hand it to the old fans though. I mean sure, they had moe-type stuff then too. But at least the girls were also heavily armed.

Yeah, because nothing goes with fan art of Nazis like someone's "original spaceship do not steal plz".


DEVILMAAAAAAAAN!

And now, a pop idol group that I'm fairly certain nobody cares about now, and that probably even fewer people cared about when they first premiered.

Cheerleader! So-And-So! What's-her-face! The Ugly One!
Edit: Sources inform me that this idol group is known as Saint Four. Here's one of their songs. I apologize for the eye-meltingly awful dancing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bq0SMA18Ag



What magazine marketed towards emotionally stunted man-children would be complete without TOYS!


Yeah, God Mazinger is totally checking out that car shaped like Dracula's head that also transforms into a robot. I would totally tool around town in that.



Well that's it for Mark 1 magazine, folks! Coming up next, an issue Animage Magazine from 1985!

Mark 1, Part 1.

We're taking a break from our not-so-regularly-scheduled programing of kaiju schlock to bring you this periodical created by Asian man-children. Plucked from the cavernous Mandarake Shibuya comes a little magazine from 1985 called Mark 1. As soon as I saw the cover I fell in love with it. What's not to love? Just at the cover you got a costumed sentai hero, a forgettable bubbly pop idol, and a sidebar with videogames, Urusei Yatsura, a robot monkey, and rubber sushi. Unfortunately I couldn't find any info in English about Mark 1, so I have no idea how long it lasted, all I know is that this is Vol.2 and was published October, 1985.
The content is a dream for old school anime fans and japanophiles. Mark 1 jumps between covering model kits, TV shows, movies, anime, toys, video games, and sentai/tokusatsu shows. There's even an interview with the legendary Shotaro Ishinomori, but I speak about as much Japanese as a house cat, so yeah... no translation for you. Please to enjoy part one of my scans from Mark 1.

The table of contents! Woo!

Ad for popular porn anime series, Cream Lemon. Sure it's cheap and tawdry, but a lot of great animators actually got their start peddling this smut.


Lets see, the Joyball looks like a rejected Nerf toy, and what the hell kinda name is "Family King" for a controller? Of course the ASCII controller looks top of the line, but do you really need top of the line controllers when it's just two buttons?


Generic manga mech pilot squad, GO!

WOOSH! Pyew pyew!

JESUS CHRIST! What the hell is with your feet? Do flipper babies make good mech pilots or is this some kinda moe thing?


I have no idea what these things are called, but for the hell of it, Imma call them Transforming Robo-Animal Fuckbuddies. Because they all look kinda phalic to me.

Get out of there, Japanese man in a circle. You're not supposed to be there. You're not even a Rumiko Takahashi character.


One of these doesn't belong. That's right, you wheel your ass out of there, Super Gaijin WHORE!


You with the microphone! If your outfit clashes anymore, you'll probably explode in a fountain of gore and shoulder pads.


Best episode of Fist of the North Star EVER.


If you don't know who the fella with the antennae is, then you cretins are reading the wrong Akira Toriyama manga.



DUDE! When you said you wanted one of my Zoids for a photo shoot, you never said anything about LIGHTING IT ON FIRE!

Do you have any idea how many garbage bags it took for me to make this Hakaider costume?


That's it for part one. Part two coming when I damn well feel like it.