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Cool info - thanks, Dave. I'll have to look up Vaughn and see if he is still in the area, even if it looks like Mangajin is done.

More content! I've been trying to update the thread here with some stuff that's been in the works at Akihabara Renditions but only getting a few moments just now. We have a couple of updates - First is another Free Talk piece about a topic that I think a lot of forum members here are familiar with -...

I'm running low on bedtime stories for my daughter when what should appear out of an old box but this Nausicaa book! AkibaRen podcast co-host Richard gave me this ages ago when he was cleaning up his old house (as well as the Laputa book), so I went searching and found vol. 1 on eBay yesterday for a...

https://i.imgur.com/HgAEH0x.jpg I got these a long time ago when a friend of a friend was getting rid of a lot of the magazines in their collection. I had always thought they were some sort of high production fanzine, since they never felt as polished as the contemporary Animag . I've never looked ...

So the shortish version is, NTT invested heavily in ISDN in the late 90's. I meant to go on a weird ISDN tangent when I last replied, but your follow up ties into this, so now's as good a time as any. ISDN, for whatever reason, seems to have been skipped over in North America. Maybe some parts of t...

July was a busy month for us - well, most of us anyhow . The podcast RSS fired as scheduled but for whatever reason, the blog didn't post as scheduled. For episode 20, Richard wanted to pull me kicking and screaming out of toons of the 1980s, so we discuss some new anime (with probably a more loose ...

Was there something you meant to link? I would be interested in the read, even though I probably don't know Barbara either. Here is the interview with Anna Exter which mentions Barbara: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/1999-04-15 Thanks for posting that, it was a cool read. I'd never heard ...

Yes, agreed - that was all very fascinating.

Furthermore, on this interview with ANN, Anna [Exeter] mentioned working with a figure named Barbara Chambers. Anyone here has any idea who she is? Was there something you meant to link? I would be interested in the read, even though I probably don't know Barbara either. Also, was JACOSub more popu...

I don't know how much more detail you're looking for (and I don't think greg posts here very much more nor do I know how much anyone from the r.a.a days is around here). Your post bumping this thread up again, Fireminer, I recognized something that I missed before. I recognized another name from gr...