It’s so…amoeba brained but I really do stare at them like, wow how did I make these….. 😅🤣💞

Love him or hate him, he’s appeared at random corners in my own adventures, and I consider myself a fan of his works. Learning about how he displayed galaxy express 999 cels next to ukiyo-e prints in the original superflat exhibit brought me to tears last year. Art can truly make you feel it all.

It’s just crazy how different that world is from now!!!! I just went Florida universal a few months ago and immediately saw current shounen jump merchandise being sold! Anime is hyper normal now, a totally different yesterday and today.

Little me was so excited to show my mom and bridge the gap. Anime could be well received and seen as art and even be used to sell.

What pushed me to watch Akira? The Absolute Vodka ad that called it the absolute anime. Everything was a scavenger hunt…

But it wasn’t until I stumbled onto “Superflat Monogram” that I felt like I encountered the anime world and my mom’s world of ogling LV fashion collide and I felt like oh. Anime isn’t just this little thing…. It can reach people beyond just me and Saturday mornings on abc family.

Somewhere in my stuff I have a printed handmade birthday card from her of Takato and Guilmon screenshots and speech bubbles humorously trying to say Happy Birthday at the same time. Age 11 doing what’s become oshikatsu and yume stuff of course hehehe.

I was gifted it regardless by my best friend at the time who then threw inuyasha, fma, yuyu hakasho, and more in front of me going “These are also the new ones”. But digimon was something we both enjoyed a ridiculous amount hahaha printed out pictures of the characters all over our notebooks

Yeah I feel like. No matter what it’s been a website for distribution and that’s it lol. They did hire some great pr folks but they’re all great people who were there and moved on cause they’re great and smart people. But Corp gotta Corp.

For me, I cosplay older series now because I want to go to cons and see/talk with people my age and older more easily. I think we all want to see our older fans and older series all be just as prominently placed and respected with the latest and greatest. And participation can only let it grow!!

and it’s definitely why boutique blu ray release panels and announcements for older manga finally coming America have been doing so well. BUT Nothing about it is a majority, so we have to keep supporting each other no?

but the veggies you’re supposed to have, the generational American anime community part isn’t so easy to see in conventions like before. I think that’s the part people crave, (and newer series aren’t as chock full of old references for them to speak on)

So the commercialization of cons has been a double edge sword of reward. We’ve been skipped to dessert, the latest series and of course are more prioritized and commercialized in a bass boosted way to unite

So by the time we’ve gotten anime to really puncture into our social sphere in America, anime itself moved on past the first 30 years of otaku- currently we’re still doing homework in the official sense, catching up in getting English publications we never had a chance to before.

and the internet was a VERY helpful way to educate this. For me who was a preteen in the 2000s, absolute anime curated a ton of information that I would thumb through constantly.

We were already a full grown chicken in the egg situation.

It terms of anime history of things being brought to English publication we were always running on only so many manga, movies, anime and more have gotten here. So we didn’t really have the basis from the get go without fans for fans help of fan translation and distribution-

TLDR; Anime ITSELF has separated itself from its own otaku for otaku history. The otaku tailored to now are very different from the otaku from before. We have to acknowledge this when we ourselves as anime fans think about the before and now.

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Hence Magical Reality also being intensely more popular than the decades before it! Anime accessibility and audiences have changed in Japan JUST as much as it has globally.
Also look at how much anime now is adaptions from games too.

writers on scripts now. You don’t really get a set of famous anime that are riffed on and are trying to be those but increased momentum than before. No, these days it’s about successful sales more than anything ever before- but still for Japanese audience.