The Old School Otaku Lounge

Still going on- inspiring :!: Lately he's been interviewing other old-school fans, but this has brought up a common struggle, which is that some folks who are big fans of animated girls became that way due to their adversarial relationship with actual girls :lol: This isn't a gender-specific problem...

It looks like they've locked up everything -- does Crunchyroll offer any ad-supported free shows anymore? I'm not against subscriptions, but this might be a barrier for younger fans who don't have an easy way to pay for access. Supposedly now they have a "limited" amount of free titles non...

Nice show on tape trading -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=942oW06xK3U

Series still going strong -- interesting context on the early-era anime hunt for anime-middle-schoolers like me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqdKlHls_2U

I guess for a long time she played the supporting role to Fred Patten, anime-wise, but I noticed that her website is down; anyone know if she is OK?

(Maybe expected, but all the anime in this catalog that I'd never heard of were Central Park Media releases. )

Maybe also off-topic, but thank you for the info! I had never heard of the term rep cinema before; that helps fill in a gap in my understanding of how people related to these things. It also helps confirm the opinion of the reviewer, that Blade Runner did not deserve the praise it received. :lol: Ma...

https://archive.org/details/the-right-s ... 96-catalog

For the anime itself, I think the big cultural split is availability -- I noticed this listening to a recent review of Blade Runner that mentioned that it was derivative of Film Noir, without really seeming to realize that in 1982 VHS was still in its infancy and there was no internet, so unless the...

I think for the schools used here, the cut-off is "How likely is it that otaku will participate?" There are fans that are older than old-school, but other than a few outliers, it seems like they don't spend much time on message boards, maybe because their bread-and-butter was APAs and con ...