Oh, man. Someone in the US really has to pick up the license for this and the Gunbuster Blu-rays.

Drinian left after TEM's panel before me since I waited to chat with TEM a bit on the way out, Sorry about that -- my girlfriend had just arrived at the convention center and she had never been to any sort of anime/sci-fi/nerd convention ever before. Wanted to make sure she was OK. Every year i...

Don Pardo was announcing SNL until age 96? That's amazing!

I am horribly allergic to cats and pretty allergic to many dogs, but I have loaded up on antihistamines and visited both EM's and Tines' pets before and can attest to their being fine cats indeed.

Lauren Bacall.

Last of the active silver-screen greats, I think.

Always leave them wanting more. I was pretty shocked, too. He was one of those people who never seemed to age, not truly.

Woah. How the heck does that happen? I thought Eva was pretty popular there. Most home media releases in Japan operate the same way that Disney does in the US: they strategically undersupply the market and take things in and out of print to try and motivate collectors to buy things now , rather tha...

Evangelion's out of print in Japan these days as well. There's no way that there will be an American re-release until it happens in Japan first. Too many concerns about reverse importation killing profits for the Japanese market. With the US and Japan in the same Blu-ray region, there's ...

Hello all, I don't get much time on the forum any more, but I will be at Otakon for sure and am always happy to see folks.

Looks like Otakon is hosting some members of the original English cast this year. I wonder if more are to come.

Nice, I've had a Strida for several years now and have generally found folding bikes to be much more useful than full-sizes.

A few things up on eBay, including my Nadia and Mononoke posters and my Key/Visual Art's 10th anniversary box set, which has lots of little posters; I'm in no hurry to sell and as you can see I didn't spend a lot of time on photography: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261473890495 http://www.eba...

Anyway, I was maybe thinking instead sourcing my own frames and just getting the mats professionally cut. Has anyone else here done this before? I framed the posters you see in my pictures. Ikea sells frames of various sizes with pre-cut matting, which has been sufficient for my posters so far. The...

Is this the EOE one? http://i.imgur.com/7YlEdgR.jpg Nope, sorry. I took a few minutes to grab some poor-quality pictures of my posters. Yes, that is a hand-painted poster from North Korea. The Baltimore-related ones are actually silkscreened on plywood. A few on eBay right now -- Haruhi, Simpsons: ...

Omegagouki#709236 wrote:BZZZT.

Yeah, I was waiting for someone to debunk that. I checked with my old tour company from the time I went to the DPRK (Koryo Tours) and they hadn't seen anyone with a haircut like that.

Dataprime#708705 wrote:North Korea fires two mid-range missiles, Seoul says

In more ominous DPRK news, apparently every male student in North Korea now has to get Kim Jong-Un's haircut.

I have been a big fan of Charles Schulz's art and writing style since I was a kid. Visiting his museum in California (which is, of course, completely positive) and reading David Michaelis' biography (which is brutally honest, in places, and deeply human) helped to reinforce t...

^How do you buy from them? I know they're also on ebay. Dealer's hall at Otakon. (Yeah, I know...) I like to see what I'm buying. @Drin: You selling any of those Sadamoto Nadia or Eva ones? If you are, make sure you link us up because I'd be keen to see them at least. Everyt...

Wow, the comic is a great read, and you can feel the mix of bitterness and enthusiasm coming through. The early fans have some good stories to tell.