Gogo Anime

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! What I *have* been doing is a lot of boring grownup life type stuff; working, laundry, inking comics, digging my car out of the snow, screening Flying Phantom Ship at Toronto's Eyesore Cinema, and

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 coming back for that second year, keeping your momentum up and building on your success. That's what the second A-Kon did, with a guest list of pretty much everybody who was anybody in the nascent

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 the city, and they happen to have a screening room in the back that's perfect for schlocky horror festivals, bone-smashing Asian martial arts action, and celebrations of everything obscure and/or

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 / Harmagedon. We promptly got lost in the men’s department of the Bay, got ourselves turned around, onto the elevator, and into the Japan Foundation's screening room, just as the film opened with

(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 was still the 1950s sometimes, thanks to Sha Na Na, Grease and Happy Days. On the other hand, we had three Popes that year! Jimmy Carter brokered Mideast peace and signed the Panama Canal

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 was in good shape and was reasonably priced. During the purchase I remarked to the vendor, "it's not often I see Roman Albums for sale these days." The reply I received was enlightening. "