What was it like being an anime & manga fan before the 2000s? And were some of my favorite anime series really as good as I remember them? Welcome to the Anime Nostalgia Podcast, a mix of anime & manga history, reviews, and talks with other fans on titles and aspects of fandom from everywhere from the 70s to the 90s!
Our favorite Lovely Angels just celebrated the 40th anniversary of their TV anime debut! So what better time to do a podcast episode all about Dirty Pair? Joining me will be my friend and newcomer to the podcast, Ashely Miami, and we'll talk all about the character's history, the various incarnations they've been over the years, and of course, why we love Kei & Yuri!
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This month’s episode is another short ReView! What is a “ReView” episode, you might ask? Well, it’s my highly-clever (ok not really) name for episodes where I go back and revisit an older title I haven’t seen in a long time, and see if what I remember (and what my opinions on it) are still the same now that some time’s gone by. This month, I'm revisiting one of Tezuka's TV films in a brand new way: New anime publisher SkySet Entertainment has released the 80s sci-fi fantasy film A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose on bluray in America--and they created a full English dub for it! So what better time to both revisit this somewhat obscure classic to see if I still enjoy it, AND to see how the new English dub sounds. How does anime Spock sound in English? Well, let's find out!
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Author Erica Victoria Espejo has not only been an anime fan since the 90s, she's been going to cons & writing about it for over 20 years! And now, she's written a book called The Fangirl Diaries: Finding Community in Anime Fandom of the 90s & 00s, chronicling early anime fandom and cosplay through her lived experience in it while growing up as a queer, femme Asian. Listen in as we discuss daring to share stories of cringey youth, the evolution of fandom, cosplay, and anime conventions, and what it was like to write a book about it all.
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Bonus: Erica in her custom Baka-Con t-shirt she mentions this episode:
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This month, I'm joined by returning champion Tricia to check out the brand new Mappa-animated Rose of Versailles anime film on Netflix. Released a whopping 46 years after it's first anime adaptation (and a musical to boot?!), what do we, as Rose of Versailles fans, think of this new vision of Oscar & company? Well...it definitely surprised us, alright, but it also left us asking quite a lot of questions. Listen in as we discuss what we thought worked, what we thought didn't, and answer your burning questions--like what other anime & manga should get musicals!
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This month on the podcast: There's a brand new anime film of the iconic shoujo classic The Rose of Versailles...so let's check it out! Returning champion Tricia will join me as we watch the new Mappa-animated film, and then discuss it. Do we like it? Do we think it's a good adaptation? We'll find out!
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On April 14th, 2025, the North American premiere of a rare anime film happened in the historic Texas Theatre in Dallas, Texas. While this statement might not seem huge at first glance, if you know a bit of anime history, this is indeed quite an important event.
For those not in the know, a little history lesson is in order. Chibineko Tom no Daibouken, better known as Tomcat’s Big Adventure online, is an anime film released in 1992 that had a pretty rough production history. In a nutshell: the story goes that after five years of production, the movie’s theatrical release was canceled due to their distribution company going bankrupt (as this was around the time of Japan’s Bubble Economy finally bursting), leading to only a few scattered showings in small venues and supposedly a handful of regional Japanese TV airings. This was a tragedy, as even though Tomcat’s Big Adventure is a kids movie, it was produced with an incredible A-list of staff & cast: The film was the directorial debut of the late Ryutaro Nakamura, who anime fans probably know better as the director of Serial Experiments Lain. Character designer and Animation director Manabu Ohashi might be better known to some as Mao Lamdo, the creator of the Cloud short in cult-favorite Robot Carnival, not to mention his gorgeous key animation in projects like The Fantastic Adventures of Unico, his work on the Space Adventure Cobra opening, and the second ending theme to Sailor Moon, “Moon Princess”, just to name a few. Music for the film was scored by the great Kenji Kawai of the original Ranma ½ and Ghost in the Shell fame. Key animators included such talents as Koichi Arai (Akira, Macross Plus, Sailor Moon R: The Movie) and Toshiyuki Inoue (Kiki’s Delivery Service, Venus Wars, Memories short Magnetic Rose). The voice cast includes heavy-hitters like the late Toshiko Fujita (Rui in Cat’s Eye, Taichi in Digimon Adventure) as Tom, Masako Nozawa (Son Goku in Dragon Ball, Tetsuro in Galaxy Express 999) as Mark, Minami Takayama (Kiki in Kiki’s Delivery Service, Conan in Great Detective Conan/Case Closed) as Alex, Akio Otsuka (Batou in Ghost in the Shell, the title character of Black Jack) as Leonis…As you can see, almost every person involved, I could write an entire article JUST on them and their career accomplishments. That’s how impressive this movie’s DNA is.
So it’s no surprise that for years, the film was held in high regard as a thing of legend–some folks in the anime industry even wondered if it truly existed at all, given how few people had ever seen the finished film. But fast-forward 20 years later, an individual named Mitsuhiro Akashi discovered one of their friends actually owned the copyright to the fabled long-lost film, through her late father who had invested in the production. The duo decided to promote the film online, not only leading to online interest from anime fans, but to small theater showings in Japan and eventually a successful Japanese crowdfunding to remaster the film back in 2015. As of this writing, the only blurays of the film that exist are the now sold-out ones that Japanese backers to this campaign could get, and the film isn’t streaming online (legally or otherwise).
And now, you have a better understanding as to just why getting to see Tomcat’s Big Adventure is a pretty big deal!
This month, we’re returning to my Creative Conversations series! In these episodes, I talk to people in various creative fields making things today who were greatly inspired by anime & manga, and are using that inspiration today to make their own cool things. This time, we’re talking to Eisner-Nominated comic artist, writer, colorist, and occasional cosplayer Sarah Myer (They/Them)! We discuss how growing up loving cartoons & anime not only had a big impact on their life, but how fandom was a major plot point in their incredible auto-biographical graphic novel Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story. We also talk about early fandom memories, cosplay, how both TMNT and Evangelion have always been there for them, and answering your questions!
Just a FEW of Sarah's older anime & manga recommendations (listen to the ep for their complete list!):
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