The Old School Otaku Lounge

That's a striking image of Gliko the Chipmunk. I'm used to the trope of the anime character with the small woodland creature sidekick, but had never stopped to wonder about the origin. I suppose if the animators had grown up watching woodland creature action-adventure anime, they'd want to sneak it ...

I don't suppose there's any chance this ever got an overseas release? The internet says that the whole Japan Animator Expo (other than a few with rights issues) got a release in Japan as part of a Dragon Dentist special edition, but no English subtitles on that one. (I'd check the original website, ...

Of course, the minute I post about it, I find it -- CPC8-3017 in 1999. Still maybe an interesting topic, though.

...not that there's anything wrong with vinyl or cassettes, of course. While looking around to see if I could find the Dagger of Kamui OST on CD, I was surprised to find it never seemed to make the jump.

Are there any other anime soundtracks that you were surprised to find never made it to CD?

Our "club" met in the chat section of Compu$erve. They called it a "CB simulator" which was an attempt to link to a known technology, which was not the right way to go, since the chat section was so much better. We didn't have physical locations (or problems with people being ne...

In the flyer that AnEccentricArchivist posted, for instance, the C/FO New York chapter was meeting Saturday afternoons at Club 57 in Manhattan. That was a surprise to me, as Club 57 was a nightclub! Apparently it was quite the happening place -- maybe just at night? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/2...

I watched Pumpkin Scissors for some reason. :D Not a bad show, but I can see why it got bad reviews when it first came out, as the OP does not do a good job representing the show. I think a lot of reviewers came expecting an action show, when instead they got a show where people spent a lot of time ...

Not part of the series, but by the same comic artist, so I thought this would be the place for it.


(https://gunshowcomic.com/180)

One aspect of old-school community clubs that I find interesting today is the variety of meeting places that the clubs had when they weren't connected to a school. Union halls, apartment building rec-rooms, shop back-rooms... so I thought maybe a thread for cataloging these would be fun.

replicated the gender dynamics of the larger institutions. Related to this, something I learned out of my own curiosity about this era was that the way I viewed "online" was different than the way it was viewed back then. Like being online now is sort of like having electricity, people do...