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by mbanu
Sat Feb 11, 2017 6:04 am
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Urusei Yatsura Mailing List, 1986-1991
Replies: 3
Views: 2074

Re: Urusei Yatsura Mailing List, 1986-1991

A really fantastic resource. (^_^) Mark Crispin mentions some trivia about the list in a Usenet post on the history of rec.arts.anime, from July of 1992: I founded the URUSEI-YATSURA mailing list on April 11, 1987 on Panda, which was then the name of my home DEC-20 mainframe. I worked at Stanford at...
by mbanu
Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:19 am
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)
Replies: 7
Views: 2195

Re: Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)

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A puzzler from the Venice FTP mirror. (^_^) Early photo-doctoring? Some other story? The file is dated July of 1992, but there's no context behind it -- 1992 would have been the tail end of Animag, right before staff started moving on to work on the new Animerica.
by mbanu
Sat Feb 11, 2017 1:33 am
Forum: Japan
Topic: Japanese green tea
Replies: 10
Views: 6396

Japanese green tea

Does anyone have any favorite styles or regions? My knowledge of Japanese tea regions isn't very sophisticated, sadly. I have enjoyed most of the deep-steamed fukamushi sencha I've tried, though, and am impressed at the technological and financial investment that Japan has put into automating their ...
by mbanu
Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:32 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)
Replies: 7
Views: 2195

Re: Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)

One puzzler is that although Mark Crispin claimed that A.N.I.M.E. became popular as a reaction against the C/FO, it also had relatively close ties with the C/FO -- one of the 1987 C/FO newsletters listed the president of C/FO at the time as Mark Keller of C/FO Hayward, and that C/FO Hayward's meetin...
by mbanu
Fri Feb 10, 2017 2:57 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)
Replies: 7
Views: 2195

Re: Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)

And a third, from Randall Miyashiro, on running the club in the early 90s and its contribution to producing AnimeCon '91: Her house would be packed with a good 100+ people who brought their VCRs and collections to trade. Most of the Animag (pre-Animerica) staff was from this club. This is where I me...
by mbanu
Fri Feb 10, 2017 2:29 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)
Replies: 7
Views: 2195

Re: Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)

Another reminiscence from Calvin Wade, from (if I read correctly) A.N.I.M.E. in 1983, before it was called that (Apparently A.N.I.M.E. was originally the name of the newsletter): I took a temp job with Hewlett Packard. It was there I ran into a gentleman who was also interested in anime. I was mildl...
by mbanu
Fri Feb 10, 2017 2:02 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)
Replies: 7
Views: 2195

Animation of Nippon Inter-Mediary Exchange (A.N.I.M.E.)

One of the counter-culture clubs that developed in reaction to the rules-based approach of the late 80s C/FO and often remembered today for being the birthplace of Animag (including the Animag BBS) and rec.arts.anime on Usenet. (^_^) Mark Crispin of the Urusei Yatsura Mailing list shared a few memor...
by mbanu
Fri Feb 10, 2017 1:10 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: A Short and Biased History of Anime and Manga in Italy (1992)
Replies: 0
Views: 1259

A Short and Biased History of Anime and Manga in Italy (1992)

An interesting perspective on the growth of anime fandom in Italy courtesy of a November 1992 article by Davide Mana: Let's begin... Here's the gist of the story so far: Japanese comics (manga) were born as an independent form of expression in 1947, with Shintakarajima ("The New Treasure Island...
by mbanu
Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:49 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Star Blazers room at LunaCon '83
Replies: 4
Views: 1788

Re: Star Blazers room at LunaCon '83

That's really interesting! Would you happen to have photos of the old program guide? There are a few references to BabelCon in the late 80s floating around online, but there doesn't seem to be anything before that.
by mbanu
Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:20 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?

I will say, though, that any article about fansubbing that fails to mention "Operator 7-G" and his work on titles like Project A-Ko, Be Forever Yamato, etc... well, it's just incomplete, is what it is. Contacting him was likely a bit tricky back then, as he hasn't gone by that nickname in...