The Old School Otaku Lounge

Well, nostalgia is certainly a factor for me, I always wanted more fansubs growing up but alas was too poor, so now I'm kind of reliving those days. But also yes to digitally preserve titles as well. I'm in contact with a 74 year old man who has Dr. Slump recordings from the Hawaii channel Pearl an...

Haha, I've watched bits and pieces of those VCDs but I'm sure I've never watched all of them completely. But yeah, it's easily over 200 VCDs. Guess it's better than having everything on tape as far as space is concerned though. There was a point in time where yeah, hauling a VCR and some tapes for a...

YEAH the anime VHS market is kinda nuts right now. Even more nuts is the vintage anime T-shirt market--I've seen some people trying to sell old anime shirts for $1,000?!? If people are actually paying that much for them, I regret getting rid of some of my old t-shirts back in the day, lmao. Yeah, I...

This was a ton of fun to read through. Distributing tapes only on the Internet in the late 90s, I spared my parents the grief of random collect calls or myself getting tons of random letters from strangers in the post. Of course, I also missed out on having physical copies of others' tape lists. Sti...

I know anecdote doesn't equal data, but my experience was when video rentals became a thing, for whatever reason VHS outnumbered Beta like, 10 to 1. If a video rental shop happened to have Beta tapes, they would be all on one shelf tucked way over to the side, while the vast majority of rentals wer...

I'm curious, as I have seen quite a few people interested in just collecting old fansub tapes, what's the appeal? What do you do with them? I get maybe trying to preserve or cataloging them for history, or hunting down very rare properties, but just buying them to keep them on a shelf?

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Been a while since I've been looking around at anime stuff but I'm back on my "I should sell some stuff" BS again... I found this the other day in a Facebook group; I'll try to share the link but it may be off-limits if you're not in the group, definitely if you're off Facebook. But jeeze ...

It's been on my mind for a while but as I mentioned in this thread here, I wasn't too thrilled with IRIA: Zieram The Animation when I saw it on the SciFi Channel as a part of their Saturday Anime block back in the late 90s but I wonder if age (my own mostly), would look more kindly on it. It's not e...

llj wrote: Ayane's High Kick

Oh wow, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. I've never seen it but man, do I remember seeing ads and reviews in Animerica for what felt like forever.