The Old School Otaku Lounge

I don't count as Old School. I was watching dubs of The Noozles on Nickelodeon while I imagine most of you were out founding the first college clubs, or maybe even narrating raw tapes from a script at the local C/FO chapter meeting. During the mid-90s I browsed rec.arts.anime through a connection at...

I like the more fluid and gratuitous animation of the 80's. It was a golden age for animation budgets. Some of the most incredible scenes had rotating backgrounds, which had to cost a fortune. You'll never see that today. I have actually seen a few rotating backgrounds recently, as CG has made them...

The reason behind it, strangely enough, is anime politics. Chinese companies have become interested in anime, and have been spending a lot of money trying to buy their way onto into Japanese production committees. In order to accept the money without losing political control over the process, the C...

I found a blog post that tries to understand it from the Japanese end: https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2016/12/27/anime-craft-weekly-25-decrypting-anime-production/ https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2017/01/02/anime-financials-2016/ Right now they are stretched pretty thin in Japan, it looks like. The reaso...

1997 Anime Web Turnpike: http://web.archive.org/web/19971211090850/http://www.anipike.com/ 1998 A collection of #anime! IRC logfiles: http://web.archive.org/web/19980214220325/http://www.apricot.com/~kyousuke/log.htm 1998 EX: The Online World of Anime & Manga magazine: The http://web.archive.org...

llj wrote:Wonder what she's doing now.

In 2012 she did an interview with one of those public access TV shows about her current business: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vF1f8Vz84k