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> From: ranma@neplusultra.org
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> 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....)