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Please make yourself at home and talk about your favorite old anime and manga. If you know what rec.arts.anime was, you’ll feel right at home.
If you’re up for it, reply here with a brief introduction including early anime memories and where you are today.
Oh man, I saw Macross: Do You Remember Love in a Daiei store in Hawaii, like in 1985? It was playing in some store display for electronics. I probably stood there watching the entire thing. I wrote the store the next day asking “WHERE DID YOU GET THIS?”, and they forwarded it to the guy who owned it. He was super nice and wrote back. He was from Japan and did business with the store, back and forth between Hawaii and Japan, and had picked it up in Tokyo. Anyway, that really galvanized the whole anime thing for me.
But watched a lot of Tranzor Z (Manzinger Z), StarBlazers, and the two (wildly) different Voltron series beforehand. And of course, Robotech.