Author: John

Countless hours debating with friends over whether or not Kia Asamiya and Michitaka Kikuchi were the same person. (For the record, they are.)

I’m starting to see the end of my theoretically final revision of Bloody Angel. I’ve been slowly re-reading and fleshing out the manuscript lately. I’m now 265 pages

I’m pretty certain that I was at an Anime Weekend Atlanta convention in the early 2000s when I convinced a dealer to drop the sales tax and sell

On an AnimeNation sponsored purchasing trip to Tokyo, I was sitting on a train beside LT, one of AnimeNation’s Japanese business associates and my volunteer translator. I recollect

I haven’t watched either Ryukonohara Labyrinth or Genji in 20 years. Do they still not make any sense?

Before Central Park Media made the bold step of localizing “Urotsukidoji” with its Japanese title intact, my friends and I had known of it for years as “Wandering

Watching an untranslated Son Goku vs. Tao Pai Pai episode in the early 1990s – it might have been episode 63 – made me reevaluate my assumption that

It was “Battle of the Planets” when I first watched it, not “G-Force,” or “Eagle Riders.” I didn’t have a chance to see “Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman” until twenty

This Chojin Sentai Barattack handkerchief was the first piece of anime merchandise I ever owned. My Malaysian aunt gave it to me when I was around 5-years-old. I

At the 1988 Necronomicon fantasy convention, I was awed by a dealer who had $15 home-made VHS tapes of untranslated Japanese anime. The table was just covered by

I think that it may have been at an early Anime Weekend Atlanta convention where I haggled with a dealer to agree on $200 for a set of

On the evening of March 19, 1994, Dave E. showed me the “Double X” music video. The short clip was my first exposure to the music of X

In the early 90s a friend loaned me his VHS recordings of the early episodes of the St. Seiya TV series. The tapes were recorded in EP (six-hour

In my mind, Tokusou Kihei Dorvack has always been the defining epitome of Golden Era anime character design.