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that certainly seems to explain why I was seeing so many Be Forever Yamato Roman Albums at conventions and in comic shops!

I was at the first Project A-Kon in 1990, which was the longest-running anime con in the US for a while. Had I known about YamatoCon at the time it happened I probably would have been completely insufferable about trying to get my parents to take me to it (I was 14 at the time). Helped to start an a...

new Let's Anime post dares to investigate the debris field surrounding Robotech II: The Sentinels! https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2025/06/ ... inels.html

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....