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Anyone else remember "Hook-ups"? Post dream usamimi » Mon Apr 15, pm I was having a conversation with a friend about the "Japanimation" boom in the 90s, and she reminded me of dream I hadn't thought of in quite some time: girl was a huge boom in anime t-shirts, stickers, etc in the early 90s thanks "vintage" a skateboard company called "Hook-ups".

I remember lots of guys in my middle school started wearing shirts by that company, as well as buying skate gear and stickers sporting their art and logos. I even remember starting up conversations with a couple of people https://passive-income.info/craigslist-dating-site-sign-up.php, "Hey, I like your shirt! You like anime? So out of curiosity, I started poking around eBay to see if I could find any of the stuff I remembered seeing back in the day, and I realized that dream lot of the artwork they used were hookups traced versions of other dream works, or just blatant art theft some of them look as if they just copied artwork right out of Japanese magazines they had found or something It's funny vintage think that back then, hardly anyone knew what hookups of this art was from I don't think any company could get away with that now.

At least, not on the same scale they were at the time! I snagged a few images girl eBay and decided to post some here girl I found, along with the art that it was "inspired by" for comparison, just for fun.

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Re: Anyone else vintage "Hook-ups"? I was in high school at the time. Some skater-types who only really knew Akira told me, "Hey, you should go to that one skate shop at such and such. They have Japanimation T-shirts there. How dare they do that to Madoka! There was click here member on here named Brain Trash whom unfortunately disappeared after a while with whom I discussed the impact of skaters on early anime fandom.

In his experience, the skaters were the ones who knew a lot about anime, whereas at my high school, all the skaters really knew were stuff like Akira and Speed Racer. Maybe sometimes Robotech or FotNS and other stuff with plenty of blood or something. Either that or they didn't make it known.

Post by usamimi » Wed Apr 17, am When I was in school, it seemed like a LOT of "skaters" and similar kids of those circles also really liked anime.

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Or stuff that had a lot of fan service, naturally. I mean, they were teenage dudes. Hookups think that was one of the reasons I ended up hanging out with a lot of them in the first place, they saw me as "one of the guys" because I also liked anime and horror movies and stuff that a lot of the girls in my homeroom had no interest in whatsoever.

I've never seen a Madoka one! Geez, I kind of want to see it now, even though I'd probably have the same reaction XD It's hard to find a lot of their t-shirt designs from back in the day read article whenever one pops up on eBay it seems to sell very quickly and for a lot, which kinda surprises me.

I wish I could find some of their old catalogs, I used to flip through them all the time when someone brought one to school. Post by davemerrill » Wed Apr 17, am I saw a "Hook Ups" sticker on the back of a car recently, and it was a good five minutes before the memories all started flooding back in, all the fakey ripoff Hot Topic "Japanimation" aesthetic that is unmistakably 90s.

So very 90s. Post by Animusubi » Wed Apr vintage, am Woooow! I didn't realize they plagiarized and straight up stole the designs. O: I guess I remember Hook-ups and at the same time don't. I think I had a small skateboard with a design on it, though I recall it being one of the more Americanized anime girls than one link the blatant copies.

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I checked out their website and it looks like some of the designs, while not as girl as the ones usamimi showed, are definitely still taking some ideas and designs from others. These ones on this page are totally Junko Mizuno knock-offs. And even Hell Teacher Nube, who they renamed Well, since we know they liked Akira, I dream that's where that name came from Specifically these: The "Dream Girl" one reminds me of a re-drawn "Iczelion": And the others look vaguely familiar, but I dunno if it's because I've seen them before, or if they're visually similar to something else.

I almost wouldn't mind getting that see more Girl" poster just because it totally screams "90's Anime craze! My favorite one is the Clockwork Orange designs.

I recently found a 2' x 3' vinyl banner of one of the designs in a skate shop at a mall and asked if dream was for sale and got turned down Remember though that a lot of the early stuff that were hookups copies of anime art were done not by a real company but the skater Jeremy Klein who founded Hook-Ups.

It was very common and still is today for hookups to be somewhat guerrilla artists, either borrowing or stealing someone else's vintage and adding their flair to it for self promotion. Not that I am vintage him or them.

Over time they moved to a more stylized version of the anime characters like what they sell today. It is at some point that a lot of one particular style becomes pop art and becomes generic in nature.

Hookups by greg » Thu Apr 18, am nordstar wrote: It was very common and still is today for skaters to be somewhat guerrilla artists, either borrowing or stealing someone else's artwork and adding their flair to it for self promotion. I would have bought a bunch more if I had found any. Post by davemerrill » Thu Apr 18, pm this would actually make a great Let's Anime blog post. I had no idea Hook-Ups was so blatant in its copyright theft. It's one thing to borrow images from works that were never released in North America, but Akira and Gatchaman?

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