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by davemerrill
Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:30 pm
Forum: Anime
Topic: What are you Watching?
Replies: 1488
Views: 428336

Re: What are you Watching?

GIRLS DETECTIVE CLUB (1987) and DEBUTANTE DETECTIVE CORPS (1996) are two different OAVs. Well, I say "different", but I'm being technical. They're probably pretty similar. I've never seen DEBUTANTE DETECTIVE CORPS but from what I can tell it seems to have a little more on the ball in terms...
by davemerrill
Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:34 pm
Forum: Anime
Topic: What are you Watching?
Replies: 1488
Views: 428336

Re: What are you Watching?

Had a justly-forgotten 80s OVA evening this weekend. watched COSMOS PINK SHOCK, which is a bit of fluff I hadn't seen since '87 about Toshihiro Hirano designing characters and spaceships and mecha; MUGEN SHINSHI: DREAM DETECTIVE GENTLEMAN, about a young-looking detective rescuing young-looking ladie...
by davemerrill
Wed Mar 06, 2013 5:37 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: The great FidoNet Robotech controversy
Replies: 20
Views: 7772

Re: The great FidoNet Robotech controversy

I wasn't in charge of the internet-based promotion, but rec.arts.anime was a great way to get the word out about the early AWAs. Merely reading rec.arts.anime automatically meant you were our target demographic, and we could reach you by sending one email. Beats the hell out of bulk mailing, lemme t...
by davemerrill
Wed Mar 06, 2013 1:45 pm
Forum: The Discuss (or, "Show Off/Plug") Your Work Section!
Topic: let's anime
Replies: 3
Views: 1802

let's anime

Every so often I throw up a blog post at Let's Anime detailing some aspect of classic-era Japanese anime or manga or anything that interests me, and the latest one is all about Prefectural Earth Defense Force, the 1986 OAV based on the '83-85 Koichiro Yasunaga Shonen Sunday manga. Been posting there...
by davemerrill
Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:30 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: The great FidoNet Robotech controversy
Replies: 20
Views: 7772

Re: The great FidoNet Robotech controversy

I do remember AnimeNet, it seemed to be a little more civil, a tad more productive for some reason. Having the dedicated sub-groups seemed to parcel the activity out in a more structured fashion.
by davemerrill
Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:49 pm
Forum: Anime
Topic: What are you Watching?
Replies: 1488
Views: 428336

Re: What are you Watching?

yup, Ninja Akakage is the Mitsuteru Yokoyama red mask ninja manga, turned into a live-action TV series and an anime TV series and lord knows what else, and that's him in Giant Robo. So cool watching him pop up in that. I think GR ended on exactly the perfect note, myself.
by davemerrill
Tue Mar 05, 2013 10:24 am
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: The great FidoNet Robotech controversy
Replies: 20
Views: 7772

Re: The great FidoNet Robotech controversy

In my experience, we were going to anime conventions and publishing fanzines and fan-subtitling and shooting parody videos and running local anime clubs and programming anime rooms at SF/comic cons, swapping tapes with people across the country and around the world, drawing fan art, writing fan fict...
by davemerrill
Mon Mar 04, 2013 1:50 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: The great FidoNet Robotech controversy
Replies: 20
Views: 7772

Re: The great FidoNet Robotech controversy

Wait a minute, fans start petty feuds with each other? Over the most inconsequential, trivial details? Well I never. Certainly such things never happened before the Internet was invented, he said sarcastically. The only thing I remember about FIDO was getting into an incredibly stupid argument with ...
by davemerrill
Sun Feb 24, 2013 1:16 pm
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: Memories of your anime club in the old days...
Replies: 11
Views: 4916

Re: Memories of your anime club in the old days...

While digging up the Pokemon news piece, I found this article from the Atlanta free weekly paper about the local anime club. Kind of dopey.

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by davemerrill
Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:09 am
Forum: Fandom of the Roughly Mid-90's and Earlier Era
Topic: article on seizure-enducing Pokemon and "violent anime"
Replies: 4
Views: 1928

Re: article on seizure-enducing Pokemon and "violent anime"

Here's a USA TODAY article, from the Asahi Shimbun: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y24/davemerrill/pokeseizure_zpsf223a886.jpg I personally don't recall any web news editorial claiming Japanese animation to be 'violent and wicked', myself. We screened a video containing this scene during Opening C...