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Sunday 16 June 2013

A new medium of cartoon animation.


My motivation is to instil what it was like to discover a new medium of cartoon animation to a modern Anime Fan (post 2000), and to reunite those memories with the family of fans from a simpler time.


I would like to dedicate this Blog to two pioneers that heavily influenced my fascination with Japanese popular culture –

Toren Smith (April 12, 1960 to March 4, 2013)

Carl Macek (September 21, 1951 to April 17, 2010).

Your choices shaped a whole generation, even outside of the US in falling in love with the pictorial image and animated visuals from Japan.

2 comments:

  1. Without Toren Smith, many of us wouldn't even be manga/anime fans at all. When I started, it was Appleseed and Nausicaa, but quickly followed by Akira, Mai, the psychic girl and many others. Fond memories of this period.

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    1. Fond memories, and a world apart the www & internet generation. A time of the joy of discovery and detection with some exploration too. I think we we were so lucky to have Toren's direction, today's Manga & Anime fans must be swamped with choices?!

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