The Old School Otaku Lounge

Sonoda is too busy running his family candy shop of 400 years. Wow, I had go read up on that. I had no idea that's what he was doing these days! Crazy that a lifetime ago, the guy was basically defining the look of anime character designs for a whole generation. Now he's running an ancient candy sh...

If you thought the old DVD was fine, just wait til you see how this remaster looks, because it's pretty damn amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVy_SHnpOqI&t=1s I watched it twice, and frankly didn't understand what all the fuss was about because it looked super compressed too. Then I dec...

So you're telling me I will be buying Project A-ko again? I have no problem with that. The latest version of A-ko on DVD seemed fine to me, other than what looked like over compression. The sequels, though, looked like they had been copied from a VHS tape that had survived a fire. I really enjoyed t...

We are truly in the darkest timeline.

I would have killed for that Dominion tee shirt back in high school. The only cool anime shirt I found back then was a Hook Ups skater shirt featuring the main character from Iria: Zeiram the Animation. I loved that shirt because at the time people just thought I was a skater instead of an anime nerd!

This thread needs pictures. Because LDs have the best cover art.

I've been wanting a re-release of KOR forever and now that it's happened I haven't even preordered it. I'm gonna fix that today...

I've given up. I just don't think anime looks cool anymore. I'm not impressed by it. I want to be impressed. I want to see amazing, well directed, dynamic animation. Hand drawn rotating backgrounds, explosions with chunks flying everywhere, mecha zooming around with vents shifting and wing flaps fla...

Not to spam the thread but apparently Dave's list is just the first 70 Roman Albums? Looks like they kept going after that unless Mandarake is lying to me.

If anyone wants to go nuts by the way...Roman Albums at Mandarake.

Awesome write up - I've heard you and others talk about Roman Albums but I don't have any myself or have I seen any but I feel like that Layzner album is calling my name! So now that I've actually READ Dave's write up, which was great by the way, I know I don't have any Roman Albums, and I feel exa...