The Old School Otaku Lounge

Supposedly it pre-dates the Urusei Yatsura mailing list -- it looks like it was around in 1985: This is a list of mailing lists available on the network. A mailing list is different from a newsgroup because you do not receive anything unless you specifically request it. To be added to a mailing list...

Maybe that's not quite fair for this particular thread. (^_^;) I suppose I was just surprised browsing Usenet for schedules how negative certain vocal folks seemed about the whole thing... the drama would be ruined by cuts, the dubs wouldn't be faithful to the Japanese original, and if the choice wa...

June 19th, 1993 for Robot Carnival, Lensman, and Vampire Hunter D, it looks like: Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime Subject: ANIME on SciFi Channel (Sat 19th) Date: 14 Jun 1993 13:56:45 -0500 I belive its the 19th, anyhow, next saturday and repeating on Sunday, the Sci=Fi Channel is showing 3 Streamline pi...

I think it would also be interesting to figure out when these films first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, since many of them started airing before the Saturday Anime block as part of their Animation Marathon and Anime Festival specials.

It looks like Loren Helsey regularly posted the output of his Sci-Fi channel scraper to alt.tv.scifi.channel; one more update with an almost complete schedule: Saturday Anime premiered on September 30, 1995 at 9am EST, after Sci-Fi Animation Station was moved to a different timeslot: 09/30/1995: Ven...

Thanks to Usenet and an archived version of a program scraper (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.peak.org /~lorenr/else/), here's an expanded schedule: 9am EST: 09/30/1995: Venus Wars (Letterboxed) [Premiere] 10/07/1995: Casshan: Robot Hunter 10/14/1995: Vampire Hunter D 10/21/1995: Lensman 10...

According to Usenet, the premiere was 09/30/1995: https://groups.google.com/forum/message ... F_-83L_OgJ

A partial schedule of Saturday Anime showings courtesy of the Wayback Machine: 09/28/1996: Project A-Ko Vs. Battles 1 & 2 10/05/1996: The Venus Wars 10/12/1996: E.Y.E.S. of Mars 10/19/1996: Project A-Ko Vs. Battles 1 & 2 10/26/1996: Vampire Hunter D 11/02/1996: Akira 11/09/1996: Gall Force: ...

The Sci-Fi Channel's Saturday Anime schedule for September to November of 1996: http://web.archive.org/web/199611240316 ... com/anime/

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The conversation seems to start mid-thread, likely when the list migrated to a new host. Not sure where the pre-1995 messages might be found, but they continue on until the list was closed in 2005.