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Hey, Answerman! [2007-04-27]

Speaking from my own experience as as someone in his mid-30s who helps select the programming for a university anime club, the problem you run into is that club membership has been on the decline as the availability of anime through other sources (DVDs, TV, fansubs) increases.

Once your membership starts looking shaky, it's harder to take chances in programming, and unfortunately our membership hasn't shown much interest in older series as a regular thing. In my case, at least, it's not a matter of not wanting to strive for diversity as being uncertain about how the club would fare if we overdid it.

(Also, we're not really set up to show from VHS any more, so we're partially constrained by the above-mentioned availability of material in digital formats.)

I think the "The Golden Age of X is 12" factor is also at work here--that is, the way a medium was when you first really got into it is what you imprint on and subconsciously think it should be like. The first anime I seriously got into as anime was Robotech, so I have an innate comfort with mid-'80s character designs and animation techniques; while I can watch and enjoy older series, it doesn't have the same sense of "rightness" to it. For this reason, I can't entirely blame fans who got into anime in the last decade for not feeling instantly comfortable with series from 20 or 30 years ago. (I can blame those who aren't willing to try them at all, however, but that's not quite the same issue.)

Well Answerman, Air got licensed. Gee, so much for never, eh?

Nooooo!!!!! My Rant wasn't good enough. So sad.

Interesting though, Zac said he wouldn't post a rant unless it was good enough. But he broke his own rule first time around! Either his standards are way too high, or we all suck.

Oh well, better luck next time.

Moros wrote:

Nooooo!!!!! My Rant wasn't good enough. So sad. Interesting though, Zac said he wouldn't post a rant unless it was good enough. But he broke his own rule first time around! Either his standards are way too high, or we all suck. Oh well, better luck next time.

don't worry ...i suck too.

At the ranter:
Okay, so basicaly...... your upset because they don't stock older series? Things go out of stock, man. Sure you can recomend to someone the older titles... heck, I am defonatly all for that. But you can't expect bookstores to keep stocking them. Alot of them might even be out of print!

On the other hand, how many people remember 'Welcome Back, Carter'? It's the times. But I DO wish it wasn't that way--I would really like to see Bubblegum Crisis...

ikillchicken wrote:

The Flake: Ug...Its people like that that really kill me. Firstly, people who use Japanese word or prases are just so incredibly lame its not even funny. Even worse though are people like that who go around doing something like that that makes em look like a complete loser, but then they don't get why people make fun of em. Its just like the Naruto Otakin kid from a few weeks ago. If youre gonna be this lame fine, but at least realize that you are a loser and everyone is gonna make fun of you.

It's probably annoying because it's in public and that they're portraying a stereotype
But then again, the same could also be said about people acting all ghetto and gangster.
As well as people acting emo... etc.

I didn't actually have time to read every single one that got sent in. So don't assume you've lost.