I spent time with a collector/former industry member who allowed me to purchase a few items from their collection of rare texts, cels and other media while on my trip to Hyogo, and I acquired 100+ documents from them all together. These documents range from doujinshi, fan zines, cels and other obscure promotional materials. These pieces are printed on cardstock with a glossy laminate over traditional CMYK printing. Many of these would become menko, a famous Japanese card game, and in this case comparing them to actual menko I own, they have some slight to moderate changes. A lot of these illustrations depicted came from several Animec magazines of the day and eventually were sold by Animec in their shop in Tokyo, while others appear to come from the Poppy children's books.

Many of the illustrators are uncredited, though I can make out works from Yoshikazu Yasuhiko and Kazuo Nakamura. Many of these also appear to simply be composites of early cel images with randomly painted backgrounds, and based on the colorations of some, I am assuming they possibly came from OUT magazine as well. Overall dimensions for these in particular, as found, are 5 x 7 inches.

I call this Vol. 2 as there are actually 3 sets of these items, all with different sizes and artwork. These are organized in no particular order but were scanned as found. Light touch up/color correction was done to others that were fading, though for what they are, these are records of very obscure materials. My source, M, told me that they more than likely were proofs sent to the manufactures before they did become menko. Based on the art, these were done between 1978 to 1979 at best, with a few outliers definitely falling at the 1980 mark.

Archive Backup- https://archive.org/details/animec_mobile_suit_gundam_concept_and_promo_art_vol_2
Website Backup- https://retroanimechris.blogspot.com/2024/06/animec-mobile-suit-gundam-menko-concept_26.html
MEGA Backup - https://mega.nz/folder/uhdGgZTB#UAkQJIOzB9J26qQU3170wQ
Questions? Comments? Contact me via [email protected] or @retroanimechris on X.

As I am back from Hyogo, I am translating an onslaught of books I acquired including some other rare materials in the coming days, months, etc. I bought over 300+ books! I'm crazy!

Part 1: /g/2966305/dea793c164/

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