RUN was one of the Commodore 64 related magazines that I bought back in the day. However, I didn't start buying it until pretty late in its life. Instead, I mostly picked up Commodore Magazine when I had the chance and switched to RUN when Commodore Magazine ceased publication. The May 1988 issue of RUN includes:
No, Space Adventurer Cobra was not quite my first exposure to anime but it is, indirectly, what got me interested.
The first anime I ever saw, though I didn't know it at the time, was Battle of the Planets (otherwise known as Gatchaman). This was when I was probably only around 6 years old and to me it just happened to be my favorite cartoon. I had no concept of what anime or Japanese animation was.
Fast forward a decade or so and I'm sitting on the couch flipping through channels on the TV. I'm passing by MTV when some interesting animation catches my eye. It turned out to be scenes from Space Adventurer Cobra (though I didn't know that at the time) and it was in a music video for 'Girlfriend' by Matthew Sweet (this was back when they actually played music videos). It was quite the serendipitous moment in that I can trace my love of both anime and of the music of Matthew Sweet to that moment.
I didn't see Space Adventurer Cobra for a few years but I went off to college the next year and was introduced to things like Oh My Goddess, Bubblegum Crisis, Ghost in the Shell and tons of other anime, famous and obscure. Ah, the good old days :)
Nowadays anime is as common as dirt in North America but back in the day (I'm talking about the early to mid 1990s) there were no streaming services and commercial releases (VHS, laserdisc and eventually DVD) were relatively rare. Mostly you had to rely on fansubs or imports. So what was YOUR intro to anime?
Though I was never really a subscriber to PC World, I did get the occasional issue over the years. It was probably the best general magazine dedicated to the PC though I preferred Maximum PC which came along a little later. The April 1996 issue of PC World includes:
Source: PC World (April 1996)
