This lot consists of 19 issues ranging from Jan 1992 to Nov 2001, including 16 consecutive early issues from Jan/Feb 1992 to Nov/Dec 1994.
Protoculture Addicts 16-31 (Jan/Feb 1992 to Nov/Dec 1994), 60 (April/May 2000), 66 (May/Jun 2001), and 68 (Oct/Nov 2001).
Protoculture Addicts (1988–2008): Started out focusing on Robotech but quickly expanded to cover a wide variety of Japanese anime, providing deep-dive reviews and historical context.
Protoculture Addicts was the first large mainstream anime and manga magazine in North America. Its name derives from the popularity of the Robotech anime series, and its namesake, Protoculture. It started as a Robotech fanzine, became officially licensed as such, and then expanded to cover anime in general. Many of the series that it reviewed and presented details of, including spoilers, were months in advance of legal release in the English-speaking West.
Protoculture Addicts was a Canadian-based anime and manga themed magazine. Although it was a North American publication, it also covered many things about the state of anime and manga in France and the French-speaking world. Manga and anime are readily available in Europe, and the magazine was started in Montreal, Quebec, a francophone region of Canada with a mixture of French and English speakers.
The first issue was Fall 1987 and the final issue was #97 in 2008.
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