The Old School Otaku Lounge

Fred Patten put it this way in Watching Anime, Reading Manga : The Cartoon/Fantasy Organization held its first monthly meeting on Saturday, May 21, 1977, coincidentally the same weekend that Star Wars was released. The anniversary of American anime fandom is usually dated from the beginning of this ...

A sign of success for all the old-schoolers, maybe, as now old anime t-shirts are viewed sort of like old band t-shirts, "I liked them before they were cool" or "I was raised liking good anime, my dad taught Kenichi Sonada how to play beer pong at AnimeCon '91-" type stories. :lo...

An early member of the C/FO from Chicago, Ed became a published author, writing The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Godzilla and co-authoring Ishiro Honda, A Life In Film, From Godzilla to Kurosawa.

It was revived in 2003 as a web-only publication, and continued on (according to Wikipedia), until the editor-in-chief, Emru Townsend, died of cancer in 2010. It looks like I mixed up the dates -- Emru Townsend died in 2008, but the magazine continued for another couple years, the decision to retir...

fps.jpg From an old version of the website: In the fall of 1991, I was lamenting the state of animation magazines and criticism. Everything was divided into camps: people spoke of Japanese, classic, computer, independent, or commercial animation—but rarely looked at where different fields and techn...

Not sure if it is a case of name re-use, but it looks like someone printed out issue 3 and it is now safely stored in the Michigan State University's Comic Art Collection: https://comics.lib.msu.edu/rri/jrri/japan_a.htm

Maybe it will given anime clubs a second wind, provided Crunchyroll doesn't double-down and start charging clubs rental-VHS prices to keep their memberships.

Not sure what it would be called, exactly, but seems to fall into this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZdVwTjUtjg

Hall & Oates AMVs???

This has received some more episodes -- a full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPEiitZ ... LVXH53YRoj

Unexpected Apollo Smile in this martial arts video from 2001: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaQ2QITnKzw