The Old School Otaku Lounge

The show you mentioned being advertised on Animax sounds a lot like " Another " or " Chu-2 Byo demo Koi ga Shitai (Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!), most likely the latter. The girls in both shows have David Bowie eyes as far as I'm aware. Kind of an odd coincidence that two sho...

The Self-Righteous Brothers! THAT IS AWESOME! I love it! They're actually the lead singer and guitarist from Frenzal Rhomb. I think like TISM their song titles are far better than the actual songs they write. A few years back they actually hosted the breakfast show on nationally broadcasted youth r...

SPDFGH, This Is Serious Mum, The Self Righteous Brothers, The Fish John West Reject and the Fuck Fucks. Most of these bands from Melbourne.

Edit: forgot Architecture in Helsinki.

Welcome to the forum! It's definitely great to hear from members who experienced early anime fandom differently than those of us in the United States, so please keep the stories coming! :D Ta! I don't have many stories from the "olden days". Being stuck in western New South Wales away fro...

It’s summer here and right smack bang in the middle of the non-ratings period. Seriously there is nothing worth watching on TV. However I have somehow become addicted to watching SBS Pop Asia, a show which has been on SBS One for a few years now but has been relegated to a late Sunday afternoon spot...

Then around 10 my uncle showed me how to make a WWII Spitfire, paint it, and apply waterslide decals. I think one of my uncles gave me a WWII German sea plane kit, though I can't remember if that was my first. I made a lot of Matchbox 1/76 tank kits. They were pretty cool as they came with their ow...

A few of the titles I’ve been watching over the last month or so; “Yamato 2199”. Pretty amazing remake of the original series. They haven’t strayed too far the original source material (some sequences are shot for shot), yet have managed to bring a lot of great new material and ideas into the show. ...

So wow, two new users who are into model kits! Actually I haven't made a kit in about a decade and a half. I don't have anywhere to make them or display them. I left most of my model kit stuff at my parent's house when I moved out in the mid 1990's. I still have the three resin garage kits I made b...

In regards to fans on forums, I have found to a small degree that if you're not one with the hive mind you're not all that welcome. Also the attitudes on the Anime News Network forum drive me batty. The Australian market is odd at times. Back in the 1990's we mostly got whatever was being released i...

Hello there. I’ve been lurking in the forums for a little while, but have finally decided to join and make myself known. I’m a 40 year old Australian who lives in a country town not far from Canberra. I first encountered Japanese pop culture around 1980 when the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (...