The Old School Otaku Lounge

For me, the latest is Dirty Pair: Affair at Nolandia. :D This really seems like an anime that would do well with a re-make, as the original is bad, but bad in a way that could have retro-appeal if it wasn't so incoherent. Like the gratuitous tentacle scenes, which later on sort of suggest they are P...

Here's one on anime fanzines and newsletters -- nice stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FcA2Z92Y7k

I liked a few NES and SNES games, and the folks who said they had games from Japan that hadn't come out here did seem kind of cool, but I was never involved in the import scene myself :) Same goes for fighting games and rhythm games, as I could never do the complex moves. :lol: My interest in anime ...

Nowadays I think the popular perception is that American anime fans who were not originally gamers are in the minority -- when I first became involved as an anime-fandom-middle-schooler, the import gamers were a subset of anime fans, not everybody but noticeable. So when did the connection start? Di...

What will happen to his photos and negatives, I wonder? It would be terrible if they weren't preserved somehow.

I have no idea where it's coming from - tapes or t-shirts. Are folks actually completing a sale at these prices? It's one thing to drop an ad for $700 of tapes or a thousand dollar t-shirt and just have that ad languish as we all have a laugh at it. But is someone actually buying these things at th...

A lot of cons do/did a new shirt every year, but pictures of old con shirts only seem to show up online when someone loses a bunch of weight or gains a bunch of weight and tries to sell their old shirt on EBay. :lol: Is there anywhere trying to archive/categorize old con shirts (front/back/tag photo...

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