Message-ID: <000401c0b329$f6970fa0$0100a8c0@marauder> From: "Ruben Adviento Rosario" To: References: <200103222215.f2MMFVt06754@top.win.ne.jp> Subject: Re: Nikaku Animart Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:43:56 -0800 Reply-To: ranma@ML.usagi.org X-ML-archive: http://www.win.ne.jp/~doi/ML/ Precedence: bulk > > > > Mr. Spillman > > >I just went to Nikkaku Animart (you can link to them and > > >Sasuga from the Anime Web Turnpike (http://www.anipike.com) > > Ya know. They do have a good online store, but it was > > really weird. Back when I was in Monterey, which is > > south of San Jose for those of ya who don't know, > > I went there a couple of times. I was expecting a > > good selection in store, but I was rather wrong. I mean > > they had an ok selection, as well as some Japanese stuff, > > but it was only in a small corner of the store. I was > > rather dissapointed don'cha know. > > > > Yeah, I had heard that the brick and mortar was rather small; They've > been around for quite awhile (my first contact with them was in early > 1991, when, after I had placed a freebie ad in Mangajin magazine > (it appeared in I think issues 3-7), asking for any manga from > Takahashi Rumiko for purchase (at the time, I had been > exposed to the Viz UY reprints (first series), and references to > Ranma in the first year of Viz-Ins, as well as the first 3 eps of Ranma > in a Ranma Project fansub (and the Sundays, of course), and wanted to get > more) I had gotten several letters of response, including a postcard > suggesting > I get hold of Nikaku Animart's catalog, with an address. Big 10+pager, > including all the UY widebans, which at the time, sold for 8.95 a copy, > and > the Ranmas, which were selling for 4.95 a pop, and the older format MIs, > 5.95 a pop. Still have all of them (very good shape, too, considering I > still > pull them out and re-read from time to time). But if one wants to get a > good > selection form them, the catalog would definitely be the way to go. > > As usual, this is The Relic, from the outer fringes of the Reality > that is the Ranma ML....(and feeling a little older, having hit 39 > today (and gotten the appropriate greeting from my Seaman....) > They may not have much of a collection, but when Bubblegum Crisis (the original OVAs mind you) were popular, I was fortunate to purchase almost the entire OVA Soundtrack collection from them w/c at the time was very hard to do (and impossible to do now). I even bought the Ranma 1/2 Screensaver from them for my old 486DX2-66 and THEN traveled up to San Fran to purchase the cd-rom and SoundBlaster 16 Value for the incredible low price of $200 (back then). It was the first store that I was able to travel to (from San Luis Obispo at the time) to purchase anime-related merchandise. Granted their selection was (and still is) not as extravagant as say AX2k but during the early to mid 1990s was acceptable. Rankor --Lurkdom Gatekeeper since 1994