The Old School Otaku Lounge

Only a little late for the film's 40th anniversary comes my look at Arcadia Of My Youth, or My Youth In Arcadia as we used to call it, and how its various iterations have impacted my experience of the film over the years. https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2023/01/vengeance-of-my-youths-arcadia.html arc...

Why not spend your New Year's Eve with Anime Hell? Lots of reasons. But if you want several hours of confusing short-form video nonsense to help ring in 2023, then Anime Hell has you covered! It all starts at 10pm ET at twitch.tv/terebifunhouse!

In the mid 1990s I noticed a lot of the people showing up to our anime club meetings were setting up TVs and playing video games in the back of the room, and I suppose a lot of those were import Japanese games? I was not much of a video game person, and am still not much of a video game person, so I...

the latest Let's Anime goes back in time fifty solid years to look at the anime landscape of 1972 and how it changed what we now call "anime" forever!

https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2022/11/ ... roovy.html

I'm seeing a few other rec.arts.anime posts that copy-paste US Renditions/Books Nippan press releases advertising a release date of Jan. 1 1990 for both Gunbuster and Dangaio. My suspicion is that January 1st was their advertised release date, but whether or not they met that release date is anybody...

I'd like to see more Gunbuster promo - a trade advertisement would be nice, for one thing - but at this point, if that Animag article is correct then Gunbuster was released before MADOX-01 and I will have to adjust years of incorrect thinking. the earliest I can see anyone discussing the Gunbuster t...

here's Woodhead promoting a sneak preview of MADOX at the 1989 Boston Worldcon: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.an ... Tu1pBpB6IJ

and here's where he mentions a February ship date. https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.an ... 2PU9MZQPEJ

that's exactly the ad I was thinking about, but as it happens, the ad we ran in "Oxygen Destroyer" was for their Riding Bean release. The memory DOES cheat! I did, however, find the Summer 1990 issue of "Animation Velocity" which continued the letter-writing feud between Randall ...

There's an issue of my anime zine "Oxygen Destroyer" that features a print advertisement for MADOX-01's release, I'll dig it up when I get home and see what it says in terms of release dates.

MADOX was first.