By the mid 1990s those last vestiges of 80s decadence had well and truly been overshadowed by stark reality and economic hardship. Especially in Japan, whose world-beating but incredibly volatile bubble economy burst spectacularly in 1992, the effects were widely felt. The anime OVA boom which gave rise to any number of weird projects shrank […]
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