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- Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:31 pm
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: Urusei Yatsura Mailing List, 1986-1991
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2074
Re: Urusei Yatsura Mailing List, 1986-1991
That UY mailing list archive is a remarkable artefact, as it's one of the first (if not the first) such anime ML. UY still had new episodes on TV when that list started, and the fact that a decent chunk of it was preserved at all was lucky. Other than scattered usenet posts discussing the odd anime,...
- Wed Apr 20, 2016 11:56 am
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: Just noticed Leiji Matsumoto's overhauled website
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3574
Re: Just noticed Leiji Matsumoto's overhauled website
Matsumoto does attend cons in Europe with some regularity, while never coming to the 'States. Of course, his works like Harlock were widely seen in Europe, thus the substantial audience to receive him there (we just got Star Blazers, which is part Nishizaki anyways, along with oddities like the KIKU...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 6:56 am
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: Just noticed Leiji Matsumoto's overhauled website
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3574
Re: Just noticed Leiji Matsumoto's overhauled website
Leiji's site linked to this french page with a remarkably interesting collection of illustrations he did for sci-fi novels: http://triple-9.fr/?cat=9 For example, here are his illustrations for Northwest Smith from 1972: http://triple-9.fr/?p=885 Finding these rare images was great, and they really ...
- Tue Apr 19, 2016 6:07 am
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: End of an Era: SUNET - An ancient Venice FTP mirror
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3742
Re: End of an Era: SUNET - An ancient Venice FTP mirror
SUNET lives! A mirror of this truly ancient repository of anime history just came online, as the original shut down recently: http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/tv+movies/anime-manga/ It's really a blast digging through anime images with timestamps like 1988, along with other stuf...
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:20 am
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: Anyone ever used the anipike?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10642
Re: Anyone ever used the anipike?
I just noticed that the Anipike site is down, and it wouldn't surprise me if this is another "living fossil" nearing (or at) it's end on the net. The "Anipike Classic" preservation of the original Anipike is useful for nostalgia and it's links to many ancient anime pages (many de...
- Fri Jul 11, 2014 4:00 pm
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: End of an Era: SUNET - An ancient Venice FTP mirror
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3742
End of an Era: SUNET - An ancient Venice FTP mirror
I just noticed that http://ftp.sunet.se/ has announced that they plan to decommission their archives, which include the Venice mirror at http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/tv+movies/anime-manga/ ,with actual removal beginning in September. Archive.org appears to have a perfect backup of the SUNET mirror, so th...
- Sat Oct 12, 2013 10:07 pm
- Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
- Topic: The "ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THIS?" Thread
- Replies: 31
- Views: 8503
Re: The "ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THIS?" Thread
Laserdiscs can be challenging to collect. LD is now dirt cheap in Japan, with the most lavish box sets going for nothing, but the space constraints over there must make collecting the big discs hard. On the other hand, importing cheap anime lasers to the U.S. from Japan makes for some brutal shippin...
- Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:54 am
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: Laserdiscs
- Replies: 106
- Views: 29541
Re: Laserdiscs
Yeah Steve, the epic Galaxy Express 999 series received an equally epic "Triplet Box" laserdisc release spanning 29 discs at a wallet busting 143000 Yen list price total. I have the first two boxes (need to track down 3), and the art, thick boxes with prismatic reflective lettering, and sh...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 12:11 pm
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: Laserdiscs
- Replies: 106
- Views: 29541
Re: Laserdiscs
I recently picked up the "Z Gundam Memorial Box Part I" 7 LD box for just $20 on eBay:
Gatefold jackets for the discs are cool:
Laserdisc packaging just blows away everything else.
Gatefold jackets for the discs are cool:
Laserdisc packaging just blows away everything else.
- Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:08 pm
- Forum: Anime
- Topic: The old-school anime DVD/BD news thread.
- Replies: 714
- Views: 170299
Re: The old-school anime DVD/BD news thread.
It's really unfortunate that Discotek could not obtain the rights to the Galaxy Express 999 TV series. Discotek would have done right by this Matsumoto masterwork (as I'm sure they will with the Harlock series) but, alas, S'more got it and put out a botched release. The GE999 series would have fit p...