During the video boom of the late ’80s, manga legend Go Nagai was involved in a series of live-action horror compilations and and films.

During the video boom of the late ’80s, manga legend Go Nagai was involved in a series of live-action horror compilations and and films.
At a glance it may seem like the intermingling of Japanese and American horror movie motifs with manga-literate millennial artists is a relatively new phenomenon. And yet, as is often the case, this is not the first time these flavors have mingled.
The rise of video in the 1980s inspired plenty of new magazines dedicated to specific genres — particularly horror. Originally positioned as an otaku “jack-of-all-trades” magazine, V-Zone soon pivoted exclusively to horror.