The Old School Otaku Lounge

Sometimes it seems like people will quit fandoms when they really just want to quit particular people in their local fandom. I think the best alternative is when they start a competing club, but that doesn't always happen. If something shuts down that cycle of new members, it can cause a generation ...

Made in Abyss and the new re-make of Magical Circle Guru Guru. They are both great shows on their own, and it's interesting to contrast the two approaches to what is basically the same story. One thing I find especially intriguing is the way adults are portrayed in both series. Made in Abyss hits a ...

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Mon Mar 04, 2019 10:13 am

by the way, if you want to see what a C/FO meeting looked like in 1982, check this out: https://youtu.be/jB5tvw2rFlU

Cue the Raiders of the Lost Ark music -- this is a fantastic find!

I can't claim credit for it, but my favorite is "Wings of Honey Mayonnaise". (^_^)

Amazing!! The president's bio is intriguing; maybe she is the reason the University of Arizona has always had such a strong anime fandom? It's interesting that as early as 1984 people were starting to notice that tape collectors won't join anime clubs if they don't have to, leading to the anime club...

If I understand correctly, this was because anime fandom drew not only from science fiction fandom but from Hollywood animation fandom, which was largely about animals that talked and acted like humans -- Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, etc. Part of it might have just been because the first American anime...

Anime middle-schooler here -- my era was pre-streaming, post VHS, the great Pirate Wave of anime fandom when anime clubs started to die off and torrenting websites started taking their place, for better and worse. (^_^) Variety of anime available today is similar to during the pirate wave, but it's ...

As a national organization it no longer exists, but individual chapters still exist in some places. Almost all changed their names after the national C/FO collapsed, but the original founding LA chapter still exists, mostly (I think) because it is affiliated with the Los Angeles Science Fiction Soci...

A suggestion: https://archive.org/search.php?query=su ... Project%22

I found Judy Niver, I think: https://blog.bcdb.com/281/ Heavy Metal assistant animator Judy Niver dies, 71 February 24, 2011 Layout artist and animator Judith M. “Judy” Niver, an assistant animator on the “Taarna” segment of the 1981 movie Heavy Metal, died December 14. She was 71. From 1965 until 1...