The Old School Otaku Lounge

The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International is coming up at the end of the month and they're doing a whole slew of events, and in conjunction with this, the Japan Foundation is going to be having a film and lecture series on anime. Dates and times are below, and full info (including locations)...

So here's my question for all you guys & gals who have a lot of DVDs, a lot of home-burned DVDs that didn't come with boxes and sleeve art. How are you storing these discs? Jewel boxes like CDs, or DVD cases in bookshelves, or are you using binders? I've been using binders, and it's fine up to a...

http://www.colonydrop.com/index.php/2013/06/24/colony-drops-second-fanzine?blog=1 Bigger and badder than our first effort, The Last American Fanzine 2: The Quickening features over 70 perfect-bound pages of full-color anime content. Contributing writers to this issue include notable Internet anime f...

Movies I've seen recently are, um, we saw the Star Trek. Sat next to two old Scottish ladies and they certainly enjoyed Simon Pegg. Haven't seen any of the other big must-see summer blockbusters. I may be waiting for video on a lot of 'em. I think I was a little too old for The Goonies when it came ...

Back in MY day we were delightfully entertained by Tom Mix two-reelers and the intellectual stimulation of Mack Sennett comedies, while enjoying the fine literature of Nick Carter adventure serials. And phosphates, nothing like a cold phosphate on a warm July day as the band plays the latest Sousa h...

I haven't been to Anime Expo since... 1994? 1995? I forget. It's been a while. I wouldn't mind being there for whatever kinda announcement they're going to make concerning Yamato 2199, but let's be honest, I can stay home and get the same news within minutes. My next con is AWA in September. We'll b...

I always preferred MZ23 II over MZ23I; when I first encountered part I, the Mikimoto/Hirano character designs were a little too cutesy and a little too close to what we'd been watching in Macross and Orguss and Iczer One, and it wasn't what I was looking for at the time. Part II was so unlike anythi...

Hey, belated welcome to the board! See you in September at AWA, probably!

I love the wording of that press release. "the timeless Robotech hit The Shadow Chronicles"... Uh huh, sure. Whatever you say. inconsequential and forgettable; a Robotech-flavored nutrition bar where one might expect a meal. - Anime News Network The Shadow Chronicles isn’t much more than t...

I'm very excited about the Dr. Slump movies and can only hope that "Quest For Toilet Paper" is among them.