![]() The pricing on the Roman Albums can also be annoying. While the Cutey Honey Roman Album is excellent, the lack of new artwork always bummed me out. ![]() It's really cool, although a bit comical to see TV!Devilman in Manga!Devilman's gory situations. The Devilman Roman Album was really neat because it had a retelling of the Devilman manga by Tsuji Masaki, with illustrations by Takeshi Shirado. I used to own the Cyborg 009 Roman Album, which might've been my favorite, since it included a nice full color summary of the TV series (plus the first movie). I own the Devilman and Cutey Honey Roman Albums, both of which I wanted to get autographed when Go Nagai came to LAX this summer, but couldn't due to strict signing guidelines. Or perhaps at the occasional anime convention swapĮxcellent write-up (as usual). You can still find Roman Albums from Be Forever Yamato and other anime films and TV shows cheap RA 36 went from prized to pedestrian fairly quickly as Star Blazersīecame unfashionable compared to Bubblegum Crisis and other icons of Mistakenly add a zero to an overseas shipping invoice? Who knows. Suddenly hungry for big-eyed Japanese cartoon characters? Did someone ![]() Japanese public's demand for this particular symbol of the animeīoom's high water mark, and pass the overstock on to a North America Somebody's Jinbucho warehouse? Did Tokuma Shoten overestimate the Was there a glut of Be Forever Yamato Roman Albums in Number 36 was seemingly available everywhere to anime fandom circaġ986. Robo or a Tekkaman over here, but Be Forever Yamato Roman Album Meant Roman Albums could and did find homes with American anime fans.Īnd sure, you might never see a Horus, Prince Of The Sun or a Getter In anime, and the 1980s comic con/comic shop distribution networksīuilt to sell us comics, model kits, and other fannish merchandise, Holes in the Roman Album's far from complete coverage of the field. There isn't even one Urusei Yatsura Roman Album, one of the larger There's a Minky Momo RomanĪlbum, but not a Creamy Mami or Magical Emi or Pastel Yumi. There are Roman Albums for the 1979 Gundam TV series and filmsīut past that, Roman Album is silent. Neglected and the absence of later 80s hits like Fist Of The North Early 80s hits like Orguss, Cobra and Cat's Eye are BrygarJ9-I and Baxingar J9-II get Roman Albums while Sasuraigar J9-III is There aren't Roman Albums for Lupin III or Gatchaman. History of anime, whole fields of anime research that Tokuma Shoten However, is that there are vast empty spaces in the Roman Album Wasn't in a Roman Album (or, say, a This Is Animation book or anĪnimec special) then it simply didn't exist. World of what we then called "Japanimation," that if it Eyes, Roman Albums were the authoritative final word on the whole
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