The Old School Otaku Lounge

Didn't realize she is living in LA. I presumed (wrongly) she was still in Japan. Yeah, many artists want a wider audience for new stuff they may be doing but have chosen something that is at best a niche market. But then again, in it's day, things like punk were a niche market too. You'd have to ask...

How much stuff you need? http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/dougo13/IMG_00000026.jpg http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f72/dougo13/IMG_00000024.jpg Ranma VHS are about $3/tape. These tapes are in hard cases so that means the cardboard original cases have been split to fit said cases. The bigger p...

It would be good if they showed the council again with Gandalf, Sauruman and Radagast and the unnamed other 2 but it would be great if they showed Valinor and why the wizards are send to Middle Earth in the first place...

Not a good comparison since 80s shows had lots of wimpy looking guys too. Saint Seiya comes to mind right away...

Patlabor for one. My bud's store had lots of stuff like Maison Ikkoku as I recall. Will check today.

Was out looking for tapes today at several places. Bought a copy of "Big Man On Campus" which has never been released on DVD. It was a never watched sealed copy. eBay lists the used copies at $20 - $50 each. I see one guy wants $130 for a sealed one! Ditto on Amazon.com. Not a bad tape to ...

I've always maintained that anything is only worth whatever you can get for it. The older stuff that was released on kids video lines or the rights have been returned to the Japanese producers might be worth a premium, especially if they were old rental only tapes (the ones that originally cost over...

I want the Samurai Pizza Cats box set when it comes out. I finally found the old Doujinshi I have for it so that cover scan goes into Wikipedia.

I still have my RCA VBT200 that I bought in 1980. I haven't turned it on in years though. It was the first deck I owned. Many friends also kept their old Betamaxes from c.1976. I also have my first DVD recorder the Panasonic E80H which is much prized by collectors. Cost me $1200 when it came out. Th...

Just found this:

http://fanlore.org/wiki/Anime_House_Presents