The Old School Otaku Lounge

I scanned in the original pasteups for the Spring 1993 issue of the print Let's Anime, and now they're available for everyone to enjoy the factual errors, bad translations, and general attitude of 90s zine culture. Enjoy! https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2025/02/ ... -1993.html

Cool write up as usual and nice to see fanzines getting posted up on Internet Archive. I liked the Swine Before Pearls article in Let's Anime #3 here. It's nice to see that other fans at various points in time have also had similar malaise, even if that's the right word, at what was happening "now" in anime production and fandom versus when they either got into it or got REALLY into it. Also nice to get a bit of inside baseball of fanzine production since I missed that era and only really got into anime fandom through the (what feels like fledgling now) Internet of the time.

davemerrill wrote:llustrations were provided by hauling a load of manga, magazines, and books up to the Kinko's Copy at Windy Hill & 41, which was open all night and had free coffee, and I'd photocopy whatever I thought I was going to need for that particular issue.

Ha, in the first few SeishunCon shows in the early 2010s we spent quite a few nights doing last minute flyers and schedules at that same Kinkos because it was close and still open 24 hours. They ditched the coffee though, which is a shame.