The Old School Otaku Lounge

My definition of "classic" has moved from 1990 until about 1995. I guess at some point the cutoff will be around the year 2000? In terms of "eras" Japanese animation can be cut any way you care to slice it. I tend to lump things together in a matrix that combines both a historica...

I do think that the anime fan scene is big enough in Atlanta and in Toronto and whereever that we could have smaller more relaxed anime conventions that would be more about friends getting together and socializing, rather than the big spectacles the big shows are. However, all the hotels and convent...

here in 2023, it feels like the, I don't know what to call it, the corporatization or the conglomeration or the monetization or the whatever of the fan conventions, the crowds and the money came in and the ability to throw a room party went out. First off. It's physically difficult to physically get...

I always like to poke my head into room parties if they're open to anyone. Back in the day when conventions were two or three thousand attendees, max, you could almost guarantee you'd know someone in the room. And if you didn't, you could make new friends pretty easily!

Look at all that Ashita No Joe!! Welcome to the forum!

FINALLY a new Let's Anime dives into the anime convention party scene of years past! Knock three times and tell them Dave sent you.

https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2023/08/ ... rules.html

Translator and fan Neil Nadelman recently uploaded some vintage 1984-1987 issues of Final Stop Andromeda, the newsletter of the Boston Japanimation Society. If you want to see what the Boston fans were up to and what they thought about anime at the time, this is a pretty good snapshot of the time an...

Hey everybody, if you've noticed you can't get to Mister Kitty Dot Org any more, well, here's what happened. Our internet host zigged when it should have zagged, and consequently we lost our dot org address. However, we were able to quickly shift over to a dot net address, and everything at Mister K...

we're a week out from Anime North and the general feeling is it went really well. Record breaking numbers, beautiful weather, a big, good-natured crowd full of positive energy, and we only needed the backup generator once on Sunday (some power company issues). I masked up inside - the full N95 for t...

Anime North is back this month! Last year was the first year back after COVID and it was pretty crowded; I can only imagine how nuts this one is going to be. Here's what I'm up to! 1983 AN23 panel slide.jpg a retrospective of the anime films of 1983! adieu leiji slidefinal.jpg a Leiji Matsumoto memo...