The Old School Otaku Lounge

Posted: **Wed Sep 16, 2015 3:48 pm**

If you want some old-school Robotech, Star Blazers, or Yamato T-shirts, Kimono My House will let you party like it's 1995: http://www.kimonomyhousetoys.com/shop.c ... 0776_99377

I think these shirts are 20 year old overstock, is what I think. Still available!

Posted: **Thu Sep 24, 2015 8:39 pm**

Wow, thanks for sharing! I've never seen the site before, but I think I might have purchased items from their eBay store in the past; very cool stuff!

Posted: **Fri Sep 25, 2015 2:17 pm**

Still have my first anime shirt, the US Renditions M-66 tee from 1992. To save $ for books and discs, I had a pal at Kinko's make "color scanner" anime shirts back in the day

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:33 pm**

I am almost tempted to get some of the Dominion and Project A-ko shirts. I had those same ones nearly 20 years ago, which have long since faded away. Might be a nice piece of nostalgia...

Posted: **Wed Oct 07, 2015 3:52 pm**

It's cool to see Kimono My House still in business! IIRC, that is where I bought my Lum T-shirt and a few posters from, back in the mid-'90s.

My prized T-shirt is still my black & white Macross DYRL T-shirt I bought at a local comic book shop.

Posted: **Sat Oct 10, 2015 8:28 pm**

Very cool shirt Greg! It looks like they still have it for sale in their eBay store...and they have a limited quantity remaining!

Posted: **Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:25 pm**

Originally written by greg on 2015/11/02, 03:54:19 PST :

Re: t-shirt heaven :

Ohmigosh, wow. They still have that same shirt for sale! I got a few praising comments for that shirt at the Summer Wonder Festival a few years back. I'm almost tempted to get a second one in case something happens to my original. I've had it since high school.

Originally written by Kame-Sen'nin on 2015/11/07, 22:18:52 PST :

Re: t-shirt heaven :

quote greg Ohmigosh, wow. They still have that same shirt for sale! I got a few praising comments for that shirt at the Summer Wonder Festival a few years back. I'm almost tempted to get a second one in case something happens to my original. I've had it since high school. quote
It never hurts to have a backup! To be honest, I'm tempted to get one myself it's a very cool shirt.

Originally written by Animusubi on 2015/11/22, 12:03:58 PST :

Re: t-shirt heaven :

Ooh thanks for the tip! I can see a few of those that would make some good Christmas gifts for a friend! I kind of want the Lying King shirt because of how ridiculous it is. But that Dominion one is awesome.

Posted: **Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:00 pm**

not that this has anything to do with Kimono My House but I wanted to test the 'attachments' feature and this is a photo of the Captain Harlock shirt I bought at a convention in Atlanta in I wanna say 1985. It hasn't held up so well.

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I do kind of like the clunky look of the artwork, and the "Herlock" spelling is a bonus!

Posted: **Wed Sep 21, 2016 3:37 pm**

Wasn't the 'Herlock' spelling an early or mid-eighties dub spelling? I feel like I've seen it somewhere else.

Posted: **Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:46 pm**

Drew_Sutton wrote:Wasn't the 'Herlock' spelling an early or mid-eighties dub spelling? I feel like I've seen it somewhere else.

It's been back and forth over and over during the past decades. It all depends on the whims of Matsumoto (because he then always does an interview where he justifies the spelling in English) and whoever is making the program.

But that Tee, I'm pretty sure that's some Vaunda Perry art from one of the C/Fo newsletters. It's not Treadwell's style and not Wendy's either.

Ya know, those old club magazines. If the thing hadn't disintergrated with the infighting and fan politics bullcrap, I bet the Blacks would have had a full color 'pro-zine' about anime on the market by 1989.