Anime Weekend Atlanta 2018
23 years ago our forefathers, well, okay, me and a bunch of my pals, we got together and put on a Japanese animation convention in Atlanta. It seemed like people had a good time so we figured we'd...
View ArticleThe Rise And Fall Of the Roman Album Empire
Recently I came across a Laputa Roman Album at one of those anime con swap meets that have become all the rage as anime fans realize they have too much stuff and not enough shelves. The Roman Album...
View Article1978: Anime's Greatest Year?
(portions of this column were originally presented early Sunday morning at AWA 2018. Thanks to all who battled through their hangovers to attend.) So, 1978. Let me tell you about 1978. First off, it...
View ArticleHarmagedon Outta Here
So recently we went out on a snowy November night through accident-choked streets to Toronto’s Hudson's Bay Center, where the Japan Foundation was hosting a screening of the 1983 film Genma Taisen /...
View Article2019: the 1960s show
Gang, I don't know if I mentioned this before here, but last year I started doing Anime Hell presentations at Eyesore Cinema here in Toronto. Eyesore is one of the few remaining video rental stores in...
View ArticleWelcome To GPress
I'm pretty sure I picked this up at the second Project A-Kon, which was held in May of 1991 at a Radisson off I-35 in Dallas. The first A-Kon was an achievement, but the real test of a convention is...
View Articleapril may update
Hey gang! I know it's been a month or so since I've posted here at Let's Anime and I don't want you to think I've forgotten about you, or classic anime, or blogging, or anything. Because I haven't!...
View ArticleSSX, Eternally Orbiting
The 1980s! Not the sexy Miami Vice 1980s of pastel blazers, cocaine, and insider trading, but the nerdy suburban 1980s of cartoons, comic books, and computer clubs. Specifically the computer club in...
View ArticleAnime Hell 80s Night II: The Return
It's summertime and that means just one thing: I take over the screening room at one of North America's last remaining video stores and drop a few hours of ANIME HELL upon an audience of scenesters...
View ArticleCalling International Rescue - no, the OTHER International Rescue
I was born too late for Thunderbirds. The seminal 1965-66 Gerry Anderson Supermarionation adventure show was instead beloved by that late Boomer contingent of kids maybe too young for James Bond or...
View Articletwenty five years of anime weekend atlanta
25 years of AWA? That CAN'T be right. Fact is, when a bunch of Atlanta anime nerds got together in 1994 and said "let's put on a show," we figured we'd get maybe a hundred attendees, we'd show some...
View ArticleThe Making Of A Legendary Anime Documentary
This piece began in 2005 as a review of the then-just-released documentary "Space Battleship Yamato: The Making of an Anime Legend." It has been revised and expanded to commemorate the 40th...
View Articlethe persistence of the vision of anime info packets
BROTHERS and SISTERS, FRIENDS of the REVOLUTION, I come before you today to TESTIFY! We have COME THROUGH THE VALLEY of the INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY, my friends! We have SCREEN-CAPPED and we have...
View ArticleAnime Hell Presents: That 70s Show
Gang, I am super excited about next week's Anime Hell screening at Eyesore Cinema! It's an all 1970s presentation of Manga Matsuri films and TV episodes and commercials and OPs and some special...
View Articlelet's rate the anime dubs
Recently in the wake of Oscar success for Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite – the first best picture nod for a subtitled foreign-language film – the old “subs vs dubs” debate erupted anew, and Hollywood’s...
View ArticleNo Elvis, Beatles, or Clove Cigarettes In 1997 Addison: My A-Kon 8 Story
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months (and if you HAVE been living under a rock for the past few months, congratulations! Turns out that was a really smart choice!) then...
View ArticleAsk The Con Nazi
There aren't any anime cons happening this summer, so anime fans across America are forced to reminisce about all the great times had at anime cons of the past. Others reminisce about how one fan's...
View ArticleAnime North Online
Well, right now we're past the hundred day mark of COVID-19 and its assault upon the health, sanity, pocketbook, and general good order of Planet Earth. If you're an anime fan- and if you aren't then...
View ArticleScoopers Redux
One of the great things about anime blogging is that I can take a column I wrote way back at the start of Let's Anime and basically rebuild it from scratch. That's what I'm doing here, dusting off an...
View Article1987 catalog of dreams and VHS tapes
When we talk about 1980s North American anime fandom we tend to emphasize the fan art, newsletters, costumes, tape trading, and other home-grown elements of the fandom. And sure, that's because the DIY...
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