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by mbanu
Tue Jan 31, 2017 11:23 am
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: KBSC, KWHY, KIKU, and the 1970s C/FO
Replies: 23
Views: 6830

Re: KBSC, KWHY, and the 1970s C/FO

I'm floored! This is pure gold! It looks like Marukai had a US branch in Hawaii in 1965, maybe explaining how they got involved with KIKU. The remarks about a New York office in 1975 might also help explain how Raideen ended up on WNJU. Company History ( Los Angeles Division) 1938 Founded Marukai Co...
by mbanu
Mon Jan 30, 2017 7:37 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: KBSC, KWHY, KIKU, and the 1970s C/FO
Replies: 23
Views: 6830

KBSC, KWHY, KIKU, and the 1970s C/FO

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/KWHY-TV_1976.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWHY-TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVEA KWHY and KBSC seem to be the two stations I've read mentioned most when it came to Japanese programming in LA during the early years of the C/FO, but I've ne...
by mbanu
Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:36 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Who fansubbed Lupin III in 1986?
Replies: 9
Views: 2817

Re: Who fansubbed Lupin III in 1986?

the first fansub I remember seeing was a fansub of the Macross movie, in 1985, which was created using the facilities at a public television station (or so the story goes). That's amazing!! I haven't had much luck finding out about pre-Amiga fansubs; I guess that would make the Macross movie the ve...
by mbanu
Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:12 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Who fansubbed Lupin III in 1986?
Replies: 9
Views: 2817

Re: Who fansubbed Lupin III in 1986?

Need to be more specific. Which Lupin III? Series? Movies? I think it was an episode -- the details are a little sparse, as they are from a 2003 phone interview with C/FO Rising Sun's James Renault that was used for a 2005 paper on the early history of anime tape trading, Sean Leonard's "Celeb...
by mbanu
Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:19 am
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Who fansubbed Lupin III in 1986?
Replies: 9
Views: 2817

Who fansubbed Lupin III in 1986?

I see mentions to this being the very first recorded fansub -- according to James Renault, Roy Black of the Blacksburg, VA chapter of C/FO got his hands on an Nth generation copy and sent one to the Rising Sun chapter in Japan where he saw it. However, in the stories I've read, nobody knows who the ...
by mbanu
Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:44 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Where are they now: Tom Mitchell of Anime Stuff
Replies: 0
Views: 1379

Where are they now: Tom Mitchell of Anime Stuff

https://twitter.com/tomzer1

On Twitter, and still into anime, it looks like. (^_^)
by mbanu
Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:05 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Urusei Yatsura Mailing List, 1986-1991
Replies: 3
Views: 2074

Urusei Yatsura Mailing List, 1986-1991

http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/tv+movies/anime-manga/sorted/UruseiYatsura/Anime/urusei-yatsura.txt.gz An archive of Mark Crispin's old Urusei Yatsura Mailing list, quietly sitting in zipped form on a mirror of the mirror of the Venice FTP. (^_^) Not 100% complete, as there are...
by mbanu
Thu Jan 26, 2017 8:05 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Where are they now: Mark Merlino
Replies: 3
Views: 1865

Where are they now: Mark Merlino

Credited by Fred Patten as being the founder of American organized anime fandom, mostly because he bought a Sanyo V-Cord machine in 1975, making it possible to show recorded giant robot shows off of the local Japanese TV station to those who had not seen them live. (^_^) Not sure if he's still into ...
by mbanu
Thu Jan 26, 2017 7:48 pm
Forum: Other TV, Movies, Books & Comics
Topic: Starlog magazine archive
Replies: 1
Views: 2624

Starlog magazine archive

https://archive.org/details/starlogmagazine

An early incubator of anime fandom, but mostly a Star Trek and general sci-fi magazine. (^_^)
by mbanu
Tue Jan 24, 2017 4:15 pm
Forum: Japan
Topic: Old school Japanese animated commercials
Replies: 5
Views: 4189

Re: Old school Japanese animated commercials

Suntory canned beer penguins being super-glum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDoi1g9x7AA (^_^)