The Old School Otaku Lounge

Also, according to Wikipedia and Michael Pinto’s writing, the first anime booth that he Brian Cirunick and Robert Fenelon established the first anime booth in an American convention was held at Lunacon 1983. However, in his book Watching Anime , Fred Patten wrote that the three of them had already s...

After I sent an email to the Anime World Order team, Daryl actually spent some of his time writing a reply to me. He listed some of the names that I might want to add to my index, which included: Trish Ledoux, Ardith Carlton, Kay Reynolds, Meri Davis, Sue Shambaugh, Lorraine Savage, Jim Kazpostas, D...

Also, in that same article, Lea mentioned that she was an editor of a fanzine devoted to manga- and anime-influenced and inspired erotica. Does anyone here have any idea about that specific fanzine?

at the time, the 1986 Baycon anime room program guide was pretty much the Bible for anime fans. It was very well regarded indeed. The Baycon guide was the best and most comprehensive English-language guide to the most popular Japanese animation films and TV shows, period, unsurpassed until Helen Mc...

The first time I became aware of Toren Smith was seeing his name as one of the editors of the 1986 Baycon anime room program guide, and I believe his work in localizing manga via Studio Proteus started soon afterwards. Toren passed away a few years back, but his Livejournal is still there, and I'm ...

Yes, I did get into OMG back in the days of DH's original release. They didn't skip the first chapter--they released the first few chapters that showed Belldandy showing up & Keiichi moving out. THEN they skipped straight to Urd showing up. The reasons for that being that 1. many fans were alre...

Say, usamimi, did you read the Dark Horse version of Oh My Goddess when you started following the series? Was it true that the first chapter in Japan was skipped so that Urd, who appeared in the second chapter, would be introduced since the start? I am researching about Toren Smith, and it is said t...

Also, was there a C/FO at Cornell University? There is a Japanese Animation Society there, which has in its alumni one interesting person I am trying to learn more about, Lawrence Eng, an anime/otaku social scientist.

Can anyone here give me an overview of the importance of Toren Smith and Studio Proteus in the early fandom? Was it true that both did most of the legwork advertising the titles published by Eclipse and Dark Horse?

It's great to see you making an appearance in Zannen, Canada! If you don't mind, can I ask how did Jesse reach out to you?

Also, will you cover more Tsukasa Hojo's works in your own podcast? I haven't heard anyone talking about F. Compo.