The Old School Otaku Lounge

thanks for the clarification! It's great to hear from someone that was there.

Wow, hello Don! Glad to have an original Yamatocon alumni here on this board. A while back I reached out to Mark Hernandez and wrote a piece about Yamatocon for the Star Blazers fan website ourstarblazers.com and later posted it at my anime blog let's anime - I hope I managed to get things mostly co...

Certainly a lot of the historical material in the film just went "whoosh" over my head when I first saw it. Even with subtitles, at least a rudimentary background in what was going on in Japan at the time is kind of necessary to really appreciate the film, and I certainly didn't have that.

Let's Anime is back with a look at the 1985 Rintaro film Dagger Of Kamui, coming soon on crowdfunded Blu-Ray, if only we can solve the mystery, find the treasure and defeat Tenkai's shinobi killers! https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2025/04/ ... er-of.html

Nothing comes to mind right away, but there are a lot of mechanical designs and systems in Yamato; there could be one, certainly.

Thanks for the details on the Hayward and A.N.I.M.E. meetings! The whole business of "official programming on one TV and a larger crowd around another TV" really brings to mind what was happening in the latter days of our Atlanta anime club - we'd be showing a movie or TV show on the big T...

I scanned in the original pasteups for the Spring 1993 issue of the print Let's Anime, and now they're available for everyone to enjoy the factual errors, bad translations, and general attitude of 90s zine culture. Enjoy! https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2025/02/lets-flashback-1993.html letsanime3-01....

my understanding is that the staff of the 1991 AnimeCon split. One group started Anime Expo in 1992 in San Jose, and another group started Anime America in Santa Clara, which is right next to San Jose, in 1993. Anime America would be in the Red Lion in San Jose up until their last show in 1996, whil...

This time Let's Anime reviews the new unauthorized guide to Cowboy Bebop! https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2025/01/ ... owboy.html

I have no idea whether or not there are missing parts to the rec.arts.anime archive. What I DO know is that there was a substantial part of anime fandom that wasn't on rec.arts.anime at all, and many conversations about anime and anime fandom were happening outside of the internet, which at the time...