The Old School Otaku Lounge

Sure, but to be clear I'm not saying old shows don't need remastering.

I feel like I want to kill someone when I hear about "dated animation" or how colors in old anime looked "washed out." Like in this blog post . They show scenes from Gunbuster that look amazing - super detailed, beautiful drawings with colors that pop - and then scenes from Diebu...

I'm finally finishing up Cowboy Bebop. I always thought it was extremely overrated, and I after seeing 22 out of 26 episodes, I still think it's really lacking in the character and story department. I don't feel attached at all to any of the characters. Their interactions just aren't there, the rela...

And Newtype! Boy, I remember drooling all over the garage kits they sold. I think I wrote them once and after that, I was on their mailing list and I'd get their catalogs in the mail. Oh man, and I remember seeing the B-Club Special Bubblegum Crisis character garage kits, especially the one of Linn...

Chrono Trigger had the best soundtrack of any RPG in my opinion.

That blows my mind. Did you have to like hook up your phone to some audio to digital transducer?

Orion is a pretty badass name, though. The Orion manga is pretty much as incomprehensible as all of Shiro's other stuff.

I always wanted to play Vay. I was going to buy it on the iPhone, but the dudes who ported it totally fucked up the character graphics.

Xenobia was hot, but the one I really liked in the looks department was Fresca.

An anime convention in Hawaii with a 30th Macross anniversary exhibit? Sounds like my kind of thing. I wonder if the wife will go for it...

https://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.anime/tree/browse_frm/month/1989-12/5166a4ddd4fbaa06?rnum=71&_done=/group/rec.arts.anime/browse_frm/month/1989-12?&pli=1 Damn, these guys were talking online about anime when I was 11, 7 years before I knew anything about the internet. Crazy. I bet a ...