The Old School Otaku Lounge

Welcome to the forum, Eileen! I'm interested to learn more about your press kits, looking forward to you starting some threads around here!

All really good points, especially how room party culture really doesn't scale up as conventions scale up. The anime room party of 1998 was just that -it was for 1998, it was for a convention that was doing maybe 2000 attendees that all kind of knew each other, that was used to fansubbing its own sh...

I think with regards to anime, terms like "classic" and "modern" are essentially moving goal posts as classic always seems to be fixed somewhere between 20 and 30 years before and modern is usually the last 3 - 5 years to current. And I think it's been that way a long time. In th...

Great article and really captures an aspect of the fandom that, I feel, is seldom discussed. It is probably because as you noted, it was something lifted from some of the old sci-fi con days and at least in my experience isn't something that translates well without someone physically doing all the w...

Welcome to the forum!

Very cool to see these! Very interesting in that 1984 issue looking at those long running series and how Sazae-san was ignored even in the early days.

I really liked your Anime from 1983 Let's Anime article, I'd love to see the panel, too. That Classic Anime Afternoon sounds like fun, too. Have a good show!

I did a lot of copying and trading of VHS fansubs, and helped out on a few of the CPF releases. In terms of the scarcity of fansubs, or the ability to replace lost fansub tapes, well, generally you got that fansub from someone you knew. If a dog ate that tape of the Patlabor movie fansub, or if you...

Great write up as usual - looking just at the films released during the year is a good way to get variety of content but also keep things at a very manageable length. 1983 feels like a jam packed year - all the films, lots going on on TV and the start of the OAV format. FINAL Yamato is quite the end...

Yea digital archiving is more important now than ever. Archive.org can only do so much and yet it does quite alot. What worries me about archive.org is the fact that its a great hub for people to upload old fansubs, dubs and etc (Mike Toole uses it to uplaod old dubs) but the other side of that swo...