Anime UK

Zine
Title:	Anime UK, ANIME UK, Anime FX
Publisher:	Peter Goll, Steve Kyte, Helen McCarthy, and Wil Overton; later acquired by Ashdown Publishing
Editor(s):	Helen McCarthy, Steve Kyte
Type:	Magazine
Date(s):	1991-1996
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Fandom:	Anime
Language:	English
External Links:	Wikipedia
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Anime UK (also ANIME UK) was a UK-based anime fanzine that ran in the 1990s. From 1995-1996 it was known as Anime FX after being acquired by Ashdown Publishing.

About

Founder Helen McCarthy wrote to Japanese Animation News & Review in 1991:

Meanwhile, perhaps I could explain a little about ANIME UK and British fandom in general for those US fans who are interested. Although some British anime fans had managed to get in touch with friends in the US, Italy, Australia or Japan and thereby gain access to anime, a "fandom" as such didn't exist here till March 1990, when the National SF Convention featured an anime programme (organised by yours truly and my partner Steve Kyte) and a group of us got together to discuss how we could help each other find out more about anime and get more people interested in it. From that discussion, ANIME UK emerged as a newsleter and information resource. Two clubs, in the North and Midlands, and a monthly showing get-together in London were also organised, but these, while not excluding any anime fan and offering a lively and friendly service, were more "locally based" and I felt there was still a need for a national, no-club newsletter. So ANIME UK was born, with me as its editor, publisher and general factotum and Steve as art editor and sometime writer. The response of our newborn fandom, both to ANIME UK and to fellow-fans in general, has been terrific. I have lots of good, intelligently-written articles, thoughtful letters and excellent art for the newsletter; meanwhile, anime is being shared and shown around the UK and our links with international fandom are growing. We are in touch with fans in eight countries-the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Italy, France, Finland and lceland and welcome all new anime contacts, with the sole proviso that ANIME UK supports only non-profit anime groups and traders and will not knowingly advertise any other kind (apart of course from bona fide merchandise dealers).

Letters column, JANR issue 4, July 1991

JANR co-editor Mike Weiss responded,

You are doing a fine job with your newsletter. Good features and interesting articles. You have some good art talent on board too, I might add. We won't hesitate to recommend AUK to our readers. Any fan organization which makes the effort to educate the world on the virtues of Japanese Animation is serving a noble cause. We at J.A.N.R wish you all over there in England the best of fortune with your fan organization!