The Old School Otaku Lounge

Those are some awesome scores. Good job shopping, I'm impressed they had a vendor with that merchandise honestly.

Sorry about the derail, to answer your basic question, IF it is not licensed in the US, then (in order to be LEGAL) you would need to track down the copyright holder in Japan and purchase broadcast rights from THEM. Obviously that's incredibly complicated and time consuming (and if you don't speak J...

llj: hahaha, AWESOME, thanks for noting that. That looks NOTHING like the actual movie, but I totally believe that's the one.

While I will again note my lack of definitive knowledge, I'll point out two things. #1. Foreign laws <> US laws, and anime copyrights are not definitively the same as US copyrights. There are similarities to be sure (most of which are intentional) but there are also differences #2. "New works&q...

Let me start by saying I AM NOT A LAWYER . That said, I've been doing some amateur investigating into a related topic for various reasons. To that end, I just want to note that THEORETICALLY (again, reference my first sentence) there are some OLD titles that are now "public domain" IN THEI...

The biggest problem with Crash is the CONSTANT reuse of "stock footage". There are certain sequences that you will see again & again.... and AGAIN.

Just out of curiosity, did anyone else do the big Anipike Trivia Contest? I remember being really impressed with the prize package they put together for that thing and had a lot of fun trying to find answers to all their questions. (some of which were pretty impressively obscure)

I just eat what I want, we're all gonna die of something.

That's interesting, thank you for sharing your perspective. I haven't yet stayed long enough to really feel like I "integrated" and my wife and I are both close enough to our families that I don't think I could move to Japan simply for familial tie reasons, but I DO think there are many th...

I do wish I could see my friends and (most of) my family, but I really don't feel like visiting America. It's been two years since I went back, and at that time I only went back because my mom had died soon after we moved to Japan in January 2012. If you don't mind my asking, is there any particula...