One of the many texts I acquired from M while in Hyogo. These, among several from the Raideen FC, Slapstick and letters from Makio Inoue to name a few belonged to his friend who passed away a long while ago. M's friend left him the estate and he let me have all of the books so long as I archived them.

This was published by the official Makio Inoue fan club, of which Makio himself helped organize, manage and and even fund. Makio was very involved with fans and went to meetings, did monthly interviews and answered most fan mail by hand. This particular copy is signed by Makio on the back, perhaps from a fan meeting, and was organized by senior high school students (male and female) and college age women. Makio writes to the fans in this particular issue and encourages them to stay encouraged in all creative pursuits and gives highlights of a fan meetup in Shibuya.

This book was incredibly poor shape, literally falling apart in my hands, but given that its 40+ years old, I did what I could.

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Both covers, front and back, were extremely faded, ripped and damaged and the book more or less fell apart in my hands while scanning due to how poorly taken care of it had been/overread/age.

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