The Old School Otaku Lounge

These are two that I've always wanted but can't find anywhere. For one thing it's just hard to search for them by title. mospeada1.jpg mospeada2.jpg I am pretty sure those are more pamphlets than actual magazines or mooks. You might look at the key model companies that had the license like IMAI and...

That's really a burning question. I tend to shelve books by series (so all the Yamato RAs went in the special Yamato Only bookcase I kid you not :) ) but I had so many RAs I tended to keep them to themselves. All other mooks pretty much were series specific. Part of the reason is I tend, even to thi...

Time has given hints to some questions, and increasing knowledge can logic out others, but SO MUCH UNKNOWN! One of the answers to "why didn't they do a RA on..." was obviously exclusive deals between production and a publisher. Bandai flirted with challanging Tokuma Shoten by publishing B-...

This is a complex question that is asked again and again, changing phraseology but the core meaning absolutely the same. It boils down to a person just being receptive of watching something that isn't the very latest 13 episode super-shiny digicel MOEblob fetish show. We old farts suffer from clinic...

Good news all around, insofar as these both on the old "impossible to release in the U.S.!!!" excuse list. I do hope they aren't compressed all to hell and gone to cram too many episodes on a BD disc. This was always one of the clarion calls of the 'BD Uber Alles' crowd, with their idea th...

For me Sol Bianca was really cool for that opening raid on that ship, but then got a tad mired in... I dunno what. I did groove on the sniper from orbit stuff however. If the entire OAV had been like that opening raid, with the action and the music and all, Sol Bianca would have been one of the supe...

Good stuff, no qualms about what people are picking. :) I'd like to see: New Release: Galient (TV and OVA), Galatt, StarzanS, Tiger Mask, Tiger Mask II, Tiger Mask W, Dr. Slump TV, Blue Noah (for historical purposes only. It's a pretty dire show, animation-wise), 1000 Year Queen (TV and movie) (I kn...

Dave, your Starzan article is a very interesting treatment of the space "King of the Jungle" and that background made this print even cooler. The mystery of what plans these prints were attached to is deep - seemingly more than just a US representative shopping the show around, as the epi...

First up, Welcome, mysterious stranger! This is a safe haven for the lovers of old school anime, here resides a frankly insane amount of collective knowledge. Saying that, you've given us nothing on which to base recommendations on. No real clues on which to metaphorically hang our hats on. A journe...

This is not Japan. The market just won't support $500 box sets. If you seriously believe the company can survive on sub-500 unit sales, well. Good luck with that. ..Except that Aniplex has used this model in the US, and for most of their BDs/DVDs, they've sold very well for their price point. I rem...