Anime accidents at SF cons...
Liverpool, annual British Easter SF con, 1988 (or maybe 1989). Booked late, and found I was sharing a room with a certain Carlo, one of the big people in British anime fandom at the time. He insisted (ha!) that I go to a certain Helen McCarthy's (sp?) late night film shows, starting at midnight, till 3-5am...
Loads of anime, a few bits subtitled, mostly raw Japanese, no dubbed. I didn't get much sleep that con...
And, later, when I decided I was an anime fan, I remembered Saturday morning cinema, in the 1960s, which us kids got dumped at. Something called "Alakazam" or some such, a strangely colourful cartoon about a monkey and a priest on a trip from China to India. Never saw anything like it again until the Eastercon.
So, maybe I have been an anime fan rather longer than I thought I had! [grin]
As for future bits, I suspect you will keep us entertained!
Wear Your Mushroom with Pride!
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Liverpool, annual British Easter SF con, 1988 (or maybe 1989). Booked late, and found I was sharing a room with a certain Carlo, one of the big people in British anime fandom at the time. He insisted (ha!) that I go to a certain Helen McCarthy's (sp?) late night film shows, starting at midnight, till 3-5am...
Loads of anime, a few bits subtitled, mostly raw Japanese, no dubbed. I didn't get much sleep that con...
And, later, when I decided I was an anime fan, I remembered Saturday morning cinema, in the 1960s, which us kids got dumped at. Something called "Alakazam" or some such, a strangely colourful cartoon about a monkey and a priest on a trip from China to India. Never saw anything like it again until the Eastercon.
So, maybe I have been an anime fan rather longer than I thought I had! [grin]
As for future bits, I suspect you will keep us entertained!
Wear Your Mushroom with Pride!
--
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind