A text acquired in a sale on Yahoo! Auctions, this book had never been opened from its original seal and is quite unique in its contents. For one, its a very much cheaply printed copy book, though as it seems the college age fans behind this journal didn't care about how it was produced so long as it was. The membership numbers of this particular circle are unknown: most of the contributions seem to be from Zero and "0002", though it could be for this particular issue. All things considered, this particular publication appears to have been very niche. The artwork is particularly good even though the production is very cheap.

This particular book celebrated, as per the byline, "Adult Heroes and Anti-Villains". This fanzine is more of a journal full of criticism on specific characters from the early to late 1970s and is quite adult in its dissections of characters who would have been deemed villains otherwise. Several passages and chapters seek to humanize Dessler, for instance, and sympathize with him as a character overall. There are notes of 'rotten' content with BL/Boy's Love slants here and there as well as perspectives on female characters as well.

This book was de-bound but was stapled simply and is printed on a larger sheet which was then folded. A very basic copy job, the artwork is quite good as is the writing itself - its rare to find such an old text with this level of anime criticism that's actual 1st hand accounts.

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