I Was A Teenage Anime Club President

[davemerrill]

the latest Let's Anime is all about how yes, I was a teenage anime club president.

https://letsanime.blogspot.com/2021/06/i-was-teenage-anime-club-president.html

It's absolutely fascinating to look back on the weird assumptions and nerd culture traditions we just sort of automatically assumed we needed to do when we started getting together to watch cartoons - that we needed officers and elections and we needed to be an official part of some kind of official structure with a national home office somewhere. And to my teenage 80s mind the C/FO was a vast organization with libraries and archives and vaguely professional behaviours, when the truth was it was run by two or three overworked people trying to answer letters and put a magazine out. A local anime club really didn't need to be a part of any part of it that didn't deliver two things, (1) tapes of anime, and (2) information about the anime that was on those tapes.

Anyway, we learned. Enjoy!

We both got our second shots. Shain got two Pfizers and I got two Modernas, and I spent the night after the shot with chills & fever and the next day being generally wiped out. Shain didn't have side effects other than a sore arm.

The weather's nice, the antique malls are open, the snakes and turtles are out, it's finally summer here.

Comments

[krpalmer]

I do find all these tales of "the anime fans that built the English-language fandom to where even I couldn't miss it at last" fascinating (even as I remember my preteen years in the 1980s were more a matter of wondering whether Battletech had ripped Robotech's giant piloted robots off or vice versa as most other related things went by me altogether). Your latest piece did get me looking for your earlier recollections about the Earth Defense Command. As for another comment you made, I did get my own second vaccination today (I'm left hoping AstraZeneca and Moderna combined will provide sufficient hybrid vigour).