The Old School Otaku Lounge

Golden Kamuy--Finally getting around to starting this and enjoying it. It seems like a sort of Rurouni Kenshin for today's generation of anime fans, even though it's not about samurais and swords it's got the same kind of appeal of being a pseudo-historical fiction with a ton of crazy looking chara...

Yea comic shops have become "Geek Central," so whatever is popular is pop culture/fandom it'll be hosted at a comic shop because in order for them to make money they gotta carry what their customers really want and would find in a comic book store these days. The one I go to in Greenville SC has a ...

Weathering With You --I confess I always have viewed Makoto Shinkai with a level of ambivalence. There's nothing wrong with his films per se, he's a very talented animator, but I feel like he ran out of things to say long ago, and is eternally stuck in perpetually adolescent themes. I did quite enj...

I hope so, too. If Toei is smart, they'll do their best to make it look really slick & cool ...BUT its Toei so who knows. 😅 For real. If not just their typical corner cutting, I could see them grossly misjudging its international appeal by either playing hardball for international licenses OR just ...

That reminds me: When was the first time you guys saw a store that stock mostly anime character goods and other Japanese pop culture curios? Or the first specialized anime store for that matter. Did they sell stuffs licensed by Dark Horse and the likes in comic book stores back in the days? The fir...

I hope this winds up being something cool.

Thanks for re-upping, DKop, I'm gonna try to watch it when I have some time.

I wasn't available during the live showing for Friday's stuff, so I hopped on Saturday morning to try and catch some stuff on-demand but it looks like they just uploaded short clips? Kind of a bummer.

Speaking of Pac Man fever, weren't there video games at the arcades before Pac Man? You know, Space Invader, Battlezone, etc.? I wonder if Pac Man was the same deal as with modern-day "streaming-friendly" games like Among Us and Fall Guys--being just as fun to watch as to play? Also, does anyone he...

I had a huge post written up, but missed posting due to auth time-out... so I'll try again. I first met Jared in 2002, through a mutual friend. In the late 90s and early 2000s, he was a pillar of the AnimeExpo staff community, very active in the burgeoning cosplay.com community and known as one of t...

Since cars have cultural significant in America too, so I will ask about it. I heard that during the 70s Japanese cars exploded in popularity because of the oil crisis. Is this true? Yes, that's true (I didn't even think about that, though). Japanese motor companies had started US/American subsidia...