An exceedingly rare, early zine that was once managed by mangaka and animator Kenichi Sonoda when he was still in high school. This work is a very cheaply printed copybook and was heavily aged, however, many of the works are surveys on mecha works and general thoughts on a variety of SF topics. Kenichi writes a bit about L-Gaim in particular. Later issues I own feature his work of Gaw Ha Lecee. The circle name is a play off of their actual school, Kyoto Prefectural Industrial High School, where Industrial is 'Ishihara' for the vision test.

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Additionals:

From Sonoda:

"〇 Well… it was very difficult to put out this issue.

Almost everyone failed to meet their deadlines (about three people did), so after school we worked very hard writing it.

〇 Also, when putting out this issue, the club president was quite worried, but thanks to the strong enthusiasm of the members, we were happy that we were able to publish it safely.

〇 Lastly, in the “SFX…” quiz, the answer to “Makai” is seven locations.

〇 Also, this time we didn’t decide on a specific theme, so it’s a bit all over the place."

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