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Hong Kong magazine

A-Club
Issue #2 featuring Plawres Sanshiro
EditorLam Caa-lei (林查理)
CategoriesAnime, Manga, Manhua
FrequencyBiweekly
PublisherLam Caa-lei group
First issue10 October 1986
Final issue
Number
25 May 2001
352
CountryHong Kong
LanguageTraditional Chinese

A-CLUB, short for Anime-club, (Chinese: A-CLUB 動畫俱樂部) was a popular magazine in Hong Kong in the 1980s. Its main topic include Japanese anime, manga and the Japanese video game industry. It also covered some aspect of Hong Kong manhua, and eventually US comics in the later years. It ceased publications in 2001.

Operation

Prior to the internet age in the 1980s and early 1990s, the magazine was one of the main source for Japanese anime culture materials in Hong Kong. The cover usually feature the hottest topics at the time.

The founding price was HK$10 per issue, it later increased to HK$35.

In its final year the magazine was only able to sell about 3,000 copies.

See also

References

  1. ^ Sina comics. "Sina.com Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine." 香港著名動漫雜誌. Retrieved 31 May 2008.


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