Post things only boomer otaku will get
>Japanimation
>Sempai
>Johji Manabe
>Neo Tokyo is about to ・Ｅ・Ｘ・Ｐ・Ｌ・Ｏ・Ｄ・Ｅ・
Zoomers allowed only if they play nice
Boomer Thread
Mason Taylor
Sebastian Green
Easton Gomez
Ryder Campbell
I always wonder how anime gradually gained a following in the West back in the day. How were people motivated to peruse material like this without the internet? Just because it's weird/cult?
Brayden Roberts
How does Yea Forums do it? Even with all it's flaws it still manages to maintain a level of quality far above the other media boards.
Hunter Martinez
Because we loved it. That's it. We used to go through extraordinary lengths just to see an episode of anime or read a chapter of manga. We had a real passion for the story, art and style of Japanese media. The fandom mostly consisted of sci-fi nerds who loved Star Trek.
Jack Hughes
RIP
Nolan Wright
A lot of it spread through word of mouth on college campuses, where most of the early influential anime clubs came from. Otherwise it got a following through the Western comics fans who were open to reading niche or foreign comics, foreign film buffs, and all kinds of other nerd fandoms like says.
Nathaniel Lee
youtube.com
The nostalgia is off the charts whenever I hear this song. I want to go back!
Jordan Murphy
Howd they book those A listers back then?
Nathan Gomez
According to the top and bottom credits, Gainax was one of the sponsors, so maybe it was a promotional kind of tour for them.
Matthew Long
Johji Manabe is a fucking legend.
Eli Allen
34 years old who has been watching anime since he has memory here.
I just came here to say that I'm not interested on participating on these threads; they are never good or constructive, being just a reunion of bitter, nostalgic people repeating "old good, new bad" ad nauseam. Same with the pre-2000 and "aesthetics" threads.
That's all.
Jacob Williams
Okay, zoomer.
Justin Perez
It helped that the 80s otaku behind the OVA boom were also gigantic American sci-fi fags. The reciprocal fandom really helped make Japanimation a thing over here. Add that to manga like Rapeman getting popular in the comix culture, and it just had a subversive cool.
Levi Morris
>boomer
>zoomer
Lurk at least two years before posting.
Daniel Lopez
>34 years old
>probably didn't watch shit until he was at least 5, probably 8
>started watching in the mid-1990s
>doesn't remember the 80s
no shit sherlock
Michael Lopez
Japanimation gets me every time
Nathaniel Sanchez
I think we should return to using the term Japanimation. Maybe even Japanime.
Isaiah Morgan
SPEAKING OF.
GUESS WHAT'S 10 YEARS OLD THIS YEAR
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GAROOGAMESH
James Watson
BLAST
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Daniel Mitchell
>Sempai
THE GREAT DEBATE
Michael Martinez
Caleb Gomez
When Urotsukidōji hit the shelves the term "Japornimation" was born. Overfiend could also be found at Blockbuster video on the children's section next to Mickey Mouse and Max Steele's Robo Force. Why? Because it is a fucking cartoon that is fucking why.
Nathaniel Adams
Dark Horse is partly to blame.
William Nguyen
Ayden Evans
>Overfiend could also be found at Blockbuster video on the children's section next to Mickey Mouse and Max Steele's Robo Force. Why? Because it is a fucking cartoon that is fucking why.
This is literally how I discovered pornography as a child. They would have hentai VHS covers just out in the open with all sorts of R-18 images plastered on them. I also remember my local bookstore had Dance Till Tomorrow (Asatte Dance) out in the open. I read it and was astonished to see "cartoon" characters having full blown sex. Holy shit!
Liam Young
I had the chance to go to that con.
A group of old school weeb friends were going and invited me along. I wasn't into anime at the time. I had seen things like Astro Boy, Star Blazers and Robotech. But those were just "cartoons" to me.
I declined.
It was only a year later that I saw Nadia for the first time. I haven't stopped regretting not going.
Robert Price
>The titles that make it to American comics-shop shelves have passed through a battery of filters designed to strain out the junk and allow only the best work being produced in Japan
What a load of shit. 90% of the manga we got back in that day was absolute trash plebeian shit aside from a few rare titles.
Charles Thomas
Outfuckingstanding.
My first glimpse of cartoon lewds was from the old GTC (Galactic Trade Commission) mimeographed/xeroxed 30 page "catalog" that sold mecha kits and vhs bootlegs of shit. That catalog had like smeared and stained nsfw B+W images with giant ink fingerprints on them. I wonder what ever happened to GTC. It was like a dude in Kansas or something that filled his barn up with merch and bootlegs.
Austin Jones
He's trying to sell comics to hipsters. You gotta decode the shpeal.
Benjamin Bennett
Nevar forget.
Jacob Hill
>tryhard thread
Bentley Miller
Samuel Morales
>that article
Ah, back when we had to put our shitposting in print because the internet was still in its infancy.
Gabriel Lewis
I fucked your mother when she was still hot, zoomer.
Parker Foster
How far we've come. Think of all the trees we've saved.
Brayden White