the year without an AWA (almost)
For the first time in 25 years there isn't an Anime Weekend Atlanta happening this weekend in Atlanta. Sure, we're all better off. COVID is still happening and people are still catching it, still...
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Frame for frame, cel for cel, the 1978 series Future Boy Conan is the best Japanese animated television show ever. The show is a whirlwind of world destruction, feral children, technofascism, workers’...
View Articlespacemen with a mission
By all logic, this should not work. A juvenile delinquent with a secret agent big brother who moonlights as a manga artist? A secret world war over a planet-destroying Anti-Proton Bomb? A detour into...
View ArticleAmy Howard Wilson
Amy Howard at AWA III in 1997I can't remember exactly where the news came from, the news that another Star Blazers voice actor had been located. But it spread quickly across late 1990s anime fandom;...
View Articleacross the leijiverse
Leiji Matsumoto: Essays On The Manga And Anime Legend McFarland & Co. Editors Helen McCarthy and Darren-Jon Ashmore Leiji Matsumoto isn't as well known in the English speaking anime-fan world as,...
View ArticleI Was A Teenage Anime Club President
As a former teenage anime club president, I spend a lot of time these days sitting on my porch in my rocking chair with my elderly cronies, sneering at the kids today with their hair and their clothes...
View ArticleEagle Sam The Anime Olympic Eagle
It's Summer Olympics time again and the world's athletes are sweating it out in Tokyo while the world watches... from home, because COVID-19 is still a thing and spectators aren't allowed into the...
View Articleanime weekend atlanta is back
After a year off ANIME WEEKEND ATLANTA returns to the Cobb Galleria Centre and the Renaissance Waverly Hotel for four days of Japanese anime fandom fun! It's all happening October 28-31 and you can...
View Articleninteen anime eighty-one part one
Hey gang, earlier this year during the online Anime North convention, I delivered a virtual presentation all about what Japanese animation was like forty years ago, back in 1981. Well, those...
View Articleninteen anime eighty-one part two
Last time here at Let's Anime, we looked at the Japanese anime television of 1981. And let's make no mistake; that was so much TV, you’d think people didn’t have any time to get out to theaters to...
View ArticleX: Mild Gift
Author's note: This article was originally published in the twelfth (Spring 1999) issue of the fanzine "Let's Anime," and was intended to be titled "X: Mild Gift", though this title somehow got...
View ArticleStar Blazers And The Start Of A Fannish Journey
Editor's note: So back in 1999, I was on an email mailing-list of Star Blazers fans we called "The Cosmolist". Seeing as how 1999 was the 20th anniversary of Star Blazers' first appearance on American...
View ArticleThe Queen Of One Thousand And Forty Years
On September 9, 1999, at 9:09am (Japan Standard Time), disaster will strike the Earth! Speeding by on its thousand-year orbit, the giant planet Lar Metal will miss us by inches, but in its wake comes...
View ArticleKnights Of The Seiya Zodiac
portions of this article originally appeared at Anime Jump. Back in the 1980s – I know this is a cliché but it’s all I got here, so work with me - while the Gundam franchise was napping, before...
View ArticleBlue Sonnet On It
When the five part Crimson Fang: Blue Sonnet original video series was released in 1989, American anime fans immediately thought of one thing - the margarine brand "Blue Bonnet." But even without any...
View ArticleAnime North is back!
Well, we're back. Anime North returns to the Toronto Congress Centre and the Delta Hotel on Dixon Rd. (you know, out by the airport) for its 25th year of Japanese animation convention fun! Cosplay!...
View ArticleAnime North: Dateline 1997
1997 was the year Titanic broke box office records, Seinfeld and ER battled for the top TV ratings, and Japanese animation like Princess Mononoke and End Of Evangelion solidified the medium’s grip on...
View ArticleAnnoying Adventures With The Tape Trading Taskforce
this column originally ran in 2003 at Mike Toole’s “Anime Jump” website, and has been amended with minor corrections, slight alterations, and additional annoyances. Names have been changed to protect...
View ArticleAnime Weekend Atlanta 2022
Back in 1995 when we were preparing to cut the ribbon on our first Anime Weekend Atlanta, the expectation was that we'd have a fun little gathering of the local anime fans, and that would pretty much...
View Article1972: The Year Anime Got Groovy
It’s 1972! President Nixon's plumbers are plumbing up what we’d call Watergate, while Tricky Dick makes a historic relations-normalizing visit to mainland China. Arab terrorists murder 11 at the...
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