The Old School Otaku Lounge

Holy cow. :shock: I've been checking out the three blogs that you linked me to via email as I've had time. Great work! What's this fourth one that you mentioned, if I may ask? It's a non-anime, non-manga review blog focusing on the build-it yourself line of science kits from Gakken. The kits are th...

Poor Curtis. My apologies, my stray comment wasn't intended to lead us all around this particular mulberry bush, at least not here anyway. Heh. I'm used to it. Things haven't changed much in that respect from the old Fido days. Anyway, thanks for the big welcome. Glad you liked the DBZ summaries. A...

Of course in the past five years, nearly every industry has been taking a beating in the global economic beatdown; maybe the failure of the American anime industry was merely the canary in the coal mine. This is a key point. I was talking to Tiffany Grant at Project A-kon about 5-6 years ago, and s...

Hell, in all honesty if I didn't get into anime when and how I did during that particular time and surrounded by the kinds of anime and people that I had been, I very much doubt I would've honestly cared for the medium a great deal much (if at all) if my first impression of it was through the highl...

Heh. Kind of wish I kept my photos of Mandarake... I've never really had a lot of bookshelf space, so my collection has generally been limited to 10-20 books that I really wanted to keep (Geobreeders, Wilderness, Space Family Carlvincent). But, I like manga more than anime, so this is the thread I f...

Curtis, I'm glad that you decided to join us! Welcome! I remember reading a lot of your old writings, and I'm honored that you would come join us here. Welcome! Daniel Thanks for the welcome, Daniel. Yeah, I always seem to have too much free time, and overly easy access to a keyboard. I've sought o...

Hitoshi Doi :shock: That is so cool! His early Internet pages on anime are a part of the inspiration for me to make anime-related homepages myself. Him and Ming. So Kagoshima... that's great! I've only been to Kyushu once, back in '02 for our one year anniversary. We stayed in Nagasaki for a couple...

davemerrill wrote:Hi Curtis! I remember seeing your name pretty much everywhere on rec.arts.anime back in the day. Glad to hear you're thriving in Japan. Welcome to the forum!

Hi Dave! Thanks. Hisashiburi. Whachubeenupto?

BikeLover wrote:Welcome.

I see another Member from the shaky Isles. Myself been here for 15yrs now.
3/11 was interesting.

Hi BL. Which part of the Big Nashi are you in?

I'm Curtis Hoffmann, one of those fans that got into anime through Akira back in 1990. At the time, the only way to get access to any kind of TV show or movie was through the tape trading network, and most of those were unsubbed nth generation. So, I started studying Japanese on my own with a handfu...