The Old School Otaku Lounge

I always like to poke my head into room parties if they're open to anyone. Back in the day when conventions were two or three thousand attendees, max, you could almost guarantee you'd know someone in the room. And if you didn't, you could make new friends pretty easily!

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FINALLY a new Let's Anime dives into the anime convention party scene of years past! Knock three times and tell them Dave sent you.

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Translator and fan Neil Nadelman recently uploaded some vintage 1984-1987 issues of Final Stop Andromeda, the newsletter of the Boston Japanimation Society. If you want to see what the Boston fans were up to and what they thought about anime at the time, this is a pretty good snapshot of the time an...

Hey everybody, if you've noticed you can't get to Mister Kitty Dot Org any more, well, here's what happened. Our internet host zigged when it should have zagged, and consequently we lost our dot org address. However, we were able to quickly shift over to a dot net address, and everything at Mister K...

we're a week out from Anime North and the general feeling is it went really well. Record breaking numbers, beautiful weather, a big, good-natured crowd full of positive energy, and we only needed the backup generator once on Sunday (some power company issues). I masked up inside - the full N95 for t...

Anime North is back this month! Last year was the first year back after COVID and it was pretty crowded; I can only imagine how nuts this one is going to be. Here's what I'm up to! 1983 AN23 panel slide.jpg a retrospective of the anime films of 1983! adieu leiji slidefinal.jpg a Leiji Matsumoto memo...

Clifford Cao is looking to identify the characters in a panel from the "Magic Kaito" manga circa 1987. Here's what he says: "If/when you have the time - could you possibly help me identify some of the cameos from this chapter of Magic Kaito here? They're all pre-1987 characters, and I...

I do all my panels through an .mp4 file by editing using Adobe Premiere since thats my only video editing software im accustomed too. It's easy to just hit the space bar on a video to pause and hit it again to play through the video slideshow. I dont want to attempt at doing excel or powerpoint onl...

We went to Tokyo twice. Places we visited included Mandarake in Shibuya, Akihabara, Nakano Broadway, a few toy stores in Shimokitazawa, the Kanda-Jinbouchou neighborhood, the temple in Asakusa, saw the Gundam in Odaiba. We went to the Toei Museum in Oizumi Gakuen and the Suginami Animation Museum. W...