Have you ever looked at a simple picture and remembered a whole lot of
extra history that comes along with that picture. Of course
you do, that is why photos are so great. Ever look at a
picture and it reminds you of something else? Of course,
that is how advertising works.
Let me paint the background for you. The year is
1995. My anime store, Anime Jyanai has just finished moving
from the Renfrew location to the Broadway location. The
news is just full of child sexual abuse stories from MIchael Jackson,
catholic priests, and famous people. On TV, X-files was filling
our minds with abductions and body probes; Beavis and Butthead
were making innocent words like “tool” sexual ones; Star Trek was still
coming out with new episodes, and a newly revised Star Wars Trilogy
with fresh footage. Magic the Gathering and Pokemon were the
kings of the “Collectable Trading Card” games, and Sailor Moon also had
a massive amount of cards to collect.
Which leads to the story of my wall. Like any collectable
card game, there are rare cards which everyone wants to keep, and there
are common cards which just about everyone will have more dupes than
they know what to do with. One day, someone stapled a magic
common card to my wall. From that, others started tacking
and taping magic cards to my wall. Soon after some people
started to modify the cards and pinning them up on the wall. Now,
I know some people worship their cards so religiously that they
wouldn't dream of punching holes, stapling them to a wall or scribbling
all over them. Well, I guess some of my customers
were kinda "different".
I have not editted any of these cards, and I don’t know who all the
authors are so please no flame mail. This is not an attack
on Magic, rather, this happened to be the rather strange canvas that
the customers of Anime Jyanai have painted an image of what the year
1995 was.
So here we have a collection of some of the ones that I managed to save
and now post up 15 years later. Please laugh with us, and
remember what your life was like in 1995.
These cards were created by
customers of Anime Jyanai, they do not represent my opinion or the
store's opinion. Magic the Gathering is copyrighted by Wizard's Of The
Coast, and the artwork is copyrighted by the various artists and
WOTC. The magic cards (pictures and captions) are just shown here
as a reference to help explain the comedy behind the nicknames, and to
preserve the archive of what was posted on the wall back in 1995. They
are not for duplication or for actual game play.
