The Old School Otaku Lounge

Lousy news today. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-21/yamato-macross-director-noboru-ishiguro-passes-away Studio Nue co-founder Haruka Takachiho reported on Wednesday that Noboru Ishiguro, the veteran director of such works as Space Battleship Yamato, the first color Astro Boy anime seri...

We started fansubbing with a special effects keyboard where, after I typing in the script up to a maximum capacity point of the keyboard, I would manually put up and take down the titles. We would get about half the episode done that way and start again with the next half. I think Matt Murray (Corn...

Dave not confusing anything and I spoke and speak to fans INTERNATIONALLY for decades on online forums. Used to run my own anime related one for a few years in the 90's. And like I said I have friends on the retail side too and we do talk about selling international, etc. Not sure if you ever heard...

The series I get the most email about is "Flying Warped Boy Ranpou". As far as I know it was never released on home video in any format. That may also be the case with "Galvion" - I know at least one episode of that series was never even broadcast. Used to be people were desperat...

Physical copies (DVDs and books) are going to be purchases for the hardcore collectors or people that want to REVISIT a title. That's why they're so expensive in Japan. It was unrealistic to think there would've been a sustainable market for selling tv shows to American audiences sight unseen. I ca...

Dave. I still got printed lists of mail-orders for fansubs and the associated costs to own them. Agree to a degree that fansubs helped with the die-hard fans who later bought the released stuff. But that is not the majority of the fan-base and most won't do that. There was an outfit in Seattle back...

The pirated kit market and re-casting is absolutely fascinating. I can remember finding out about it and thinking "People actually DO that? So much trouble!" There's an element of DIY to it that is remarkable, but at the same time, it's bootlegging, it's illegal copies of commercially avai...

I'm 42. The first Japanese cartoon I ever saw was "Prince Planet" (Yusei Shonen Papii) on Chicago TV when I was very small. Grew up watching Ultraman and Speed Racer. The debate over fansubtitling and video piracy has been going on as long as there have been VCRs. I can't speak for the ani...

If you want to buy fansubs be my guest but not my game(remember my wife earned a living producing anime/manga and her stuff got pirated). People buy fansubs? Not to get into a big debate, but that hasn't been the case, at least in American fandom, for at least a decade. I would pay cash money for G...

To be honest I agree with most of your negatives, and will suggest that the whole psychic family subplot is not only a waste of time, but doesn't fit in at all with the rest of the series; I imagine some editor thought the story was too dull and told Izumi Matsumoto to throw in some ESP to liven thi...