The Old School Otaku Lounge

http://i.imgur.com/bLxvaew.jpg A puzzler from the Venice FTP mirror. (^_^) Early photo-doctoring? Some other story? The file is dated July of 1992, but there's no context behind it -- 1992 would have been the tail end of Animag, right before staff started moving on to work on the new Animerica. One...

I remember seeing portions of Dagger of Kamui at an anime meeting back in 1986 and being impressed by the visuals of the action sequences along with the music. I ended up buying the movie on laserdisc on my first trip to Japan that same year, and have seen those same scenes many times. However, to b...

I dug around in one of my boxes of old anime fandom and found a flyer and the first newsletter for A.N.I.M.E. You might find them interesting to peruse. The newsletters were only distributed at the meetings, so I doubt anyone outside of the SF Bay Area has ever seen them.

One puzzler is that although Mark Crispin claimed that A.N.I.M.E. became popular as a reaction against the C/FO, it also had relatively close ties with the C/FO -- one of the 1987 C/FO newsletters listed the president of C/FO at the time as Mark Keller of C/FO Hayward, and that C/FO Hayward's meeti...