Re: There are no old, bold anime fans...

Tsugumi wrote:
> "Justin Palmer" <justin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:fml5if$9qe$1$8302bc10@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> And, I rather suspect, everyone elses... ^_^
> 
> Gotta admit I crapped myself doing that. I remember saying "Thank you
for 
> that warm hand on our entrance" then scarpering...
>> I think I've said this before, but if there is one thing I do miss
about a 
>> hobby that has improved in so many almost impossible-to-comprehend ways

>> its the air of mystery. It was a real moment of happiness when some 
>> treasure from that strange, remote, alien wonderland known as Japan
some 
>> how escaped across the Pacific and found its way onto a collision
course 
>> with my curiosity. 
(snip)
> Well said that man!

	I think this is also why I've been hungering after older series 
recently - they're not as promoted as much and the fanbase has to have a 
degree of interest (in other words, I'm saying that mecha fans are 
maniacs... ^_^) beyond just liking the look of a series.

> When we started getting into anime there seems to be a magic about
finding 
> out about it - a bit like Jack Skellington discovering christmas...
> 
> Our local model shop in Hull had some "Zamac" kits in about '83 - for
99p 
> each. 
	
	You know you've been a mecha fan too long when you start searching the 
web for this legendary lost giant robot series "ZAMAC" and find instead 
its a line of model car kits... ^_^

I knew the guy who ran it and as I'd bought the lot, he gave me a load
> of posters and promtional bumf.
> I wasn't Otakuised them, I just knew they were Japanese and sci-fi, 
> therefore worthy of my interest...

	I get quite spooked sometimes thinking about how I feel I might have 
been primed from a very early age; my favourite cartoons when I was 
young were all the Japanese-involved ones, like Battle of the Planets 
and Cities of Gold. I nearly had a heart attack when I discovered the 
true origins of Star Fleet... ^_^

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