Hello
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:54 pm
Hello everyone. I look forward to poking around a bit more and writing. I wonder how many of you I may have interacted with 'back in the day'. Lets see... back on effnet I did visit the #anime! channel fairly often... for a while I posted on rec.arts.anime a bit.. I was on a bunch of mailing lists that gradually faded. I wrote stuff up for the Rose magazine for Anime Hasshin..
Lets see.. online names I used over the years were combinations of Rune, Saint, and Ghost. RuneGhost, GhostSaint, RuneSaint...
I remember trading tapes across america. I remember Arctic Animation.. I remember getting orders of godzilla toys that were mailed to someone in exchange for barely labeled tapes wrapped in brown bags(why brown bags instead of the cases that come with the tapes I do not know...
I remember starting up a club at college, then leaving and returning to the college a few times ... at least in part due to running the club. I remember trading for item "A" so that I could get a copy of "B" to trade for item "C" which would fill a gap in a collection.
I -still- remember the commercials that usually started the break before the credits for Seiya (either the gold fields one, or the one with classrooms of kids using sorobon).
Later, I remember getting a GoVideo machine to copy VHS onto DVD...
...
I remember when anime fans were few enough that it was enough to bond over and you could make friends that would be there. I think that is what I miss the most. I can accept that items that took me years of multiple trades to get even an Nth generation copy of can now be downloaded or watched on TV trivially now...
But I suppose I miss it being special. That being a fan or recognizing Yamato or the designs of Rumiko Takahashi meant that you belonged however vaguely to a group. That others that knew what you did could be trusted .. that you were all doing something vaguely illegal (at the time) to keep the tapes circulating..
That if someone knew the term Mospeada or Harlock that you could talk to them .. that you had some common experience that would let you talk to them and consider them, if not a potential friend, then a good acquaintance. Even if you were into shoujo and they prefered cream lemon; or if they were into mecha battles while you were trying to understand what BubbleGum crisis was about... Dancougar.. Seiya... these code words meant that you had some shared experience that you could use to build on.
.. Anyway. Hello everyone, I look forward to discussions.
-R
Lets see.. online names I used over the years were combinations of Rune, Saint, and Ghost. RuneGhost, GhostSaint, RuneSaint...
I remember trading tapes across america. I remember Arctic Animation.. I remember getting orders of godzilla toys that were mailed to someone in exchange for barely labeled tapes wrapped in brown bags(why brown bags instead of the cases that come with the tapes I do not know...
I remember starting up a club at college, then leaving and returning to the college a few times ... at least in part due to running the club. I remember trading for item "A" so that I could get a copy of "B" to trade for item "C" which would fill a gap in a collection.
I -still- remember the commercials that usually started the break before the credits for Seiya (either the gold fields one, or the one with classrooms of kids using sorobon).
Later, I remember getting a GoVideo machine to copy VHS onto DVD...
...
I remember when anime fans were few enough that it was enough to bond over and you could make friends that would be there. I think that is what I miss the most. I can accept that items that took me years of multiple trades to get even an Nth generation copy of can now be downloaded or watched on TV trivially now...
But I suppose I miss it being special. That being a fan or recognizing Yamato or the designs of Rumiko Takahashi meant that you belonged however vaguely to a group. That others that knew what you did could be trusted .. that you were all doing something vaguely illegal (at the time) to keep the tapes circulating..
That if someone knew the term Mospeada or Harlock that you could talk to them .. that you had some common experience that would let you talk to them and consider them, if not a potential friend, then a good acquaintance. Even if you were into shoujo and they prefered cream lemon; or if they were into mecha battles while you were trying to understand what BubbleGum crisis was about... Dancougar.. Seiya... these code words meant that you had some shared experience that you could use to build on.
.. Anyway. Hello everyone, I look forward to discussions.
-R