The Old School Otaku Lounge

Yep, I remember the Boston Japanimation Society! The oral history, as I recall it, is that Jim started the club, and then it later became the Boston Japanimation Society when it had some momentum and the attendees decided they wanted to discuss and watch more than just Star Blazers. In those days, t...

ONLY YESTERDAY is a premium film. I dig it all the way. I waited for years for a US release, but threw up my hands and got the UK DVD this year. Was glad I did. My recent watches: WATAMOTE: funny, cute, scary as hell. 15-year-old Tomoko, after an easy junior high life and a summer spent playing dati...

The Ranma entry on this survey jumped out at me, too. Viz are rolling it out on several platforms (blu-ray, DVD reissue, Neon Alley, and probably a VOD streaming option too) and will probably watch how it performs with great interest. I'm hoping they'll do a rescue of Maison Ikkoku if it does well. ...

Welcome, Kei! I also convert/preserve VHS tapes-- I enjoy searching for anime dubbed in English, from long ago. This is what I use. http://i.imgur.com/8D8mJwW.jpg The Aiwa PAL/NTSC deck accepts the tapes. I capture the video using a DVD recorder at maximum settings. It's not 100% great quality, but ...

"Someone" my foot! Viz are moving offices this week. If I was in SF, I'd have gone over there.

And here's where I get back to that 'playbook'. Now that Kozo Morishita has had this project reach market (regardless if he's still attached, or dead, or whatever) it is forever enshrined at Toei as "the way to do things in America". It's actually my understanding that these were viewed a...

Man, the Pierrot majokko show I want the most is Magical Emi. I hope they make it to that one. I just about broke the sound barrier pre-ordering BROTHER, DEAR BROTHER. Over the past few years, I've come to realize that Mr Dezaki is probably my favorite anime director of all time-- I'll watch anythin...

Anyone here who gets Harlock first, tell us about the DVD quality. I've heard that a few Discotek releases lately have had some minor annoyances. What kind of flaws? I'm friends with a guy who handles a lot of their authoring, and he's absolutely meticulous. Discotek, I've found, have also been goo...

I'm guessing these Gaiking films are episodes condensed to films? Because the pacing is really off to be regular films. Lol.. Yep. The whole project (which encompasses compilation movies of a variety of Toei shows) was a dumb vanity project of some company exec or another. They did Gaiking compilat...

Just got Shout! Factory's $15 set of 3 GAIKING compilation movies and watched a bit. Amazingly, this new dubbed version (by William Winckler, of TEKKAMAN! THE SPACE! KNIGHT! fame), produced in 2008 or 2009, is every bit as awful and stilted as the old Jim Terry dub of the TV series. Japanese names a...