PLUS ULTRA retro zine blends the colorful spirit of the 1980's aesthetics with characters from My Hero Academia.

With unique artwork, fiction and merch, we seek to capture the nostalgia the 80's that's within our minds and hearts, to bring joy and happiness to everyone being involved in the zine!

This project is for-profit and all participants are 18+.

► Pre-Orders ◄

Pre-orders are planned to open in June 2021.

The team will not accept requests of refunds once the PDF and merch have been sent out.

Pre-orders cancellations will be accepted until one week before the end of the pre-order period.

► Joining the project ◄

Our selection process is over, thank you for all who've applied!

The team consists of 6 mods with a cast of 8 writers, 26 artists, 5 merch creators.

► What is a zine? ◄

fan·zine
/ˈfanˌzēn/
noun
a magazine, usually produced by amateurs, for fans of a particular performer, group, or form of entertainment.
"a football fanzine"

A zine, or fanzine, is a non-official self-published media publication containing fanart, fanfiction, or original articles from a group of participants. Zines are produced by enthusiastic fans who want to share their love of a particular piece of medium with other fans. The original creator of My Hero Academia and all companies owning copyright are not involved in any way, so the project's scale is kept small and has a limited run as to not be considered mass-producing. Nothing trademarked will be used.

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► Why are you not accepting minors in the zine? ◄

For legal and safety reasons. Kahi, our HeadMod, have based the zine on the laws in their country.

Because of these laws, minors under the age of 18 can't work/participate in an event without parental consent. This mean exchange of legal information (legal names + ID copies, plus letters with signatures allowing consent) from both the parents and the minors, and the HeadMod.

Kahi preferred avoiding all this paperwork, for many reasons. They understand that not everyone wants to ask for their parents permissions to participates in an event (especially online), and to protect both the minors, and their own, legal and private information.

We hope that you can understand our decision.

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► How do you join a zine as a contributor? ◄

During the contributor apps period (which has already ended), applicants sent samples showcasing their abilities and skills. Emails are sent informing the selection results to those who applied.

All mods reviewed applications based on criteria such as art style and anatomy, technicalities in coloring and proficiency in backgrounds. For writers among the criteria are pacing, imagery, story-weaving and characterizations. We have a beta mod that will be able to help with grammar and spelling. Experience can be taken in consideration, but it's in terms of a creator's career; no prior zine participation or numbered following required. Everyone had an equal chance of being accepted.

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► What will be found in the zine? ◄

The theme is 80's aesthetics, which is extremely large and full of possibilities! Each contribution will depict a vintage 1980-1989 vibe/subject that will induce nostalgia. It could be based on that decade's movies, posters, music, fashion, hairstyles, etc. We put together some ideas.

We have aimed for diversity in terms of concepts and characters, so you can look forward to seeing a very varied cast of MHA characters doing a ton of different activities, depicted within illustrations and fiction! We will also have merch to sell, such as charms, stickers, prints and a patch.

The zine will have two versions. The NSFW version will include any mature content, might it be of sexual or violent nature; anything that would be considered rated 18+ in public media.

A majority of answers to our Interest Check were favorable to both character-centric and ship-centric content.

We have forbidden the following type of content:
- No hard violence such as murder, gore, non-con/rape, war, etc.
- No glorifying prejudice such as racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc.
- No pedophilia, no hard drugs (but smoking a cigarette is okay)
- No offensive or overly political subject matter, to mods' discretion.

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► Are portrayal of genderbending/cisswapping okay for this zine? ◄

While genderbending shouldn't be an issue with other characters, if a character is known to be transgender, or non gender conforming, we don't think it would be fair to show them as the opposite gender.

Ex: Magne being a trans woman in the manga/anime, cisswapping her as a man wouldn't feel right.

If there is any confusion about these terms or this rule, the team is open to providing clarification and would certainly welcome any further information. It goes without saying that headcanon of any character being trans is accepted.

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► Will contributors share teasers outside the Discord Server? ◄

The Mod Team ask contributors to not share teasers of their work outside the Discord Server until we give the green light to post cropped previews and excerpts during pre-order period. When all pre-order have been sent out, the full piece can be shown.

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► Can a contributor sell artwork created for the zine? ◄

Until the project is wrapped up and announced completely over, we demand for contributors not to reveil their full piece or sell it. After all customers received their copies and the Discord server is shut down, all rights remains with artists and authors so they may do as they please with their creations.

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► Who are the mods and what's their experience with zines? ◄

Please see the mod intros here. For two of them, it’ll be the first time in modding a zine, while the others have experience. We are making communication as clear and transparent as possible with all mods. We hope for everyone to have a great experience and gain knowledge for future endeavors.

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This schedule will be kept updated, and should there be any changes they will be posted on our social media.
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INTEREST CHECK
September 7 - October 5, 2020

MODS APPLICATIONS OPEN
October 10, 2020

GUESTS ANNONCEMENTS
October 16, 2020

MODS APPLICATIONS CLOSE
October 25, 2020

Mod App Email Answers
October 29, 2020

Mods Announcement
October 31, 2020

Contributors Applications Open
November 2, 2020

Contributors Apps Close
November 30, 2020

Mails Sent (Contributors)
December 7-10, 2020

Concept Ideas Check
Verifying concept diversity among all contributors

Contributors Announcement
January 13-16, 2021

1st Check-In (25%)
February 1 - 7, 2021

2nd Check-In (50%)
March 8 - 14, 2021

3rd Check-In (75%)
April 12 - 18, 2021

Final Submission (100%)
May 17 - 23, 2021

Pre-Order Open
June 18, 2021

Pre-Order Close
July 18, 2021

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➡️Production

August, 2021

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Shipping + PDF Distribution

September, 2021

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Co-Head Mod: Kahi

The person behind the idea of melding the 80's with BnHA! They are excited to start this project with you all and see what you can create!

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Co-Head Mod & Designer: Ver

The soul behind all those amazing graphics we've been posting since the beginning of the zine!

Always ready to support and get hyped together, hoping we all have a totally tubular time with this project!

• CharacterofStrength (NSFW)

Production/Finance Mod: Zelina

Introducing our totally rad Production Mod, who will be handling the finances and shipping for our project! We're thrilled to have her with us.

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Beta Mod: Aria

We are fortunate to have Aria filling in the Beta Mod role, who will handle communication with our writer contributors and reviewing of all of their pieces! With such a positive attitude we know she'll bring a lot to the project!

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Social Media Mod: Alley

Alley has joined our team to keep our audience engaged and informed on the progress of our zine, as well as answering any questions we receive!

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Discord Mod: Casey

Providing support to all of our team members inside our Discord server, Casey is always ready to help with anything needed!

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