#animage cover

[laboitediabolique]

Cover of Animage, Volume 228, June 1997. Scanned from my personal collection.

[kishigunpla]

Currently working on Animage from September of 1987 for the next blog post. In the meantime, here's a scan of the cover featuring art of Char by Haruhiko Mikimoto

[zegalba]

Kiki’s Delivery Service for Animage (1990) Illustrated By: Katsuya Kondō.

[keep-on-trying]

Wooooow look at this Animage cover art!! Such nice art of Nozomi and Rin!

[asukachii]

July 2023 || Animage Magazine Cover [cleaned]

(I don’t like putting watermarks so, PLEASE, if you want to post this edit somewhere GIVE CREDITS! Also, don’t use it in graphic edits/videos. Thanks~)

[yazzydream]

Animage #8, 2022

[kyouka-supremacy]

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[animenostalgia]

Venus Wars (1989) on the cover of Animage magazine

[empty-movement]

Someday, Shine With Me...

It's Christmas Eve. It's 1997. You actually went to see the AWESOME Utena Musical over the weekend, and you have rewatched your VHS tape recordings of the last episode a dozen times.

You've been jamming out to Internal Clock, Municipal Orrery. You obtained a time machine to pour over episode commentaries by Ikuhara and Saito that cover the last three episodes. You've already stolen the script from be-Papas' office. You've even got a screencap gallery of it!

You've been watching along with some other internetizens, because forums are cool.

You've been staring at the insane art drop by Akemi Hayashi for this month's Animage Magazine:

You've been poring over the to-be-released creator commentary, transcribed by Vrai Kaiser, whose articles about Utena have been living rent free in your future head all year:

There are two meanings to the Japanese word utena. One is “the calyx of a flower.” That’s also the meaning of the title, of course. The thing that supports the beautiful petals; the one with the noble heart. And the other meaning of utena is “tall tower or pedestal.” We translated this into a visual: the tower at the center of Ohtori Academy, the one with the Chairman’s room on the top floor. And the dueling arena located deep in the woods is the same. In the early stages of production, when the story wasn’t firmly established yet, this was one of the aspects I most wanted to visualize and produce for the screen. A world where demons roam. In its center, a tower called the “Tower of Revolution.” Whosoever can remain victorious in his battles against the demons can reach the pinnacle of the Tower of Revolution, and at the same time receive the power to revolutionize the world; the power that changes the rules of the world. However, when he reaches the pinnacle, he learns the world’s governing laws. He faces the ultimate choice: will he stay nobly, beautifully powerless? Or will he accept ugliness into himself and gain absolute power? He desired both. Or rather, perhaps he couldn’t choose either. His mind in anguish, he divided himself in two. His “noble heart,” and the “adult with absolute power.” And so. With one last wish that the day would come when someone would awaken him, the “noble heart” that had lost its body, in other words the prince, fell into a deep sleep. Early on in the series’s conception, I kicked around the idea of placing something like the above at the heart of the story. Later, after several changes, it became the tale as you know it, but without a doubt, he did reach the pinnacle of the Tower of Revolution. It was a place where “eternity” dwelled. And “eternity” turned out to mean perpetual sleep. The prince (Akio) who became an adult while in perpetual sleep lost something. What he lost was “the power to create an enjoyable future.” Revolution means gaining “the power to imagine the future.” The prince chose to sleep on, and the princess chose to wake up. At the top of that tall tower, the princess bid farewell to the prince. No – she wasn’t the princess any longer. She quit being “a person (thing) ruled by someone.” The victory bells rang, but there was no “tower (rule)” beyond them now. She’d learned where freedom lay. She crossed the threshold of that “Door of Revolution” which had always been closed to her before, and began walking. The “girl’s revolution” lay in the girl’s future. “Wait for me…Utena.” The world (the stage) is free and wide.

You're not ready for Utena to end. Which is good, because it isn't going to. Not for you. Decades from now, Utena will still be here, speaking to you. Challenging you. Changing you.

[hikaru-hoshina]

Wonderful Precure! Animage special issue cover

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Updated the picture quality! Now you can admire sskk in all their 5119×3231 glory

Shin Soukoku from Animage Magazine 2023 September issue

[tetrix-anime]

Animage Magazine October 2024 Issue Cover - Oshi no Ko. Release: 10 September 2024

[sakamoto-days]

3-NEN Z-GUMI GINPACHI-SENSEI is on the cover of upcoming Animage issue 2/2025!

[the-necromancer-wife]

Animage magazine special cover. Here we can appreciate his portrait a bit better.

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kirakira precure a la mode ... animage cover!