Essays
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Anime Weekend Atlanta 2023: Farewell to the Cobb Galleria
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After visiting my first anime convention in my final months of college in March 2007, DaigaCon in Bowling Green, Kentucky, I knew I needed to seek out more conventions…
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Costuming a World Apart: Cosplay in America and Japan
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by Michael Bruno Even though the art of Cosplay in Japan is based on SF costuming in America, there are only a few similarities and many differences. The inherent…
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A Brief History of the rec.arts.anime newsgroup
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By Alan Takashita Life before r.a.a.——————Well, frankly, people mostly just didn’t talk much about anime.This was the time period where Robotech was the big anime-related thing. At the time, I…