A look at legendary animator and director Hideaki Anno’s involvement with the Mobile Suit Gundam series.

A look at legendary animator and director Hideaki Anno’s involvement with the Mobile Suit Gundam series.
There was no shortage of anime magazines in the 1980s, but what about all those other things the maniacs cared about? Cosplay, garage kits, doujin, dinosaurs… Do-Pe covered an eclectic array of otaku interests over its brief three-year run.
Long before Gunsmith Cats or Gall Force, Kenichi Sonoda got his break thanks to doujin he published with a group named Comic Circle VTOL.
A largely forgotten example of doujin anime, circa 1984.