[1] I'm almost positive that nearly every anime fan that ran across the article cringed that the title called it "japanimation" instead of "anime." I've never really understood fandom's objection to the former, though. [2] Leading anime producer AD Vision, based in Houston, is completely and entirely run my John Ledford and Matt Greenfield apparently doesn't exist [3] On one hand, it's cool that it touches almost exclusively on anime that I've actually seen. On the other, it suggests that they're a bit out of date. ADV has (or used to have?) a music video with the newest releases. It was always a game for me to see how many of the ones they'd show that I'd seen. I never seemed to crack 50% -- and that was when I was a full-fledged anime fan. I haven't seen but a few features in the past three years or so and one of the reasons that the conventions lost their allure was that so much of what everyone was talking about was stuff that I hadn't even heard of. [4] My lady friend and I went to a video rental store last night for the first time in a long time. Thankfully it was Hollywood Video instead of Blockbuster because they inexplicably (and I don't know if this is still their policy or if they finally found their senses) put anime in with the rest of the "action" or "drama" sections, which was a lot worse if you're in the mood to rent anime. I was able to check out what Hollywood Video had in one isle, which was nice. There wasn't much and most of it was pretty old. Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly, there isn't an anime store in my small Idaho city. There's actually only one comic books store. [5] I gotta find a way to start watching more anime again. The problem is that anime has always been something of a social activity for me. I've always watched it with other people. Unfortunately there isn't a huge market for it here in Idaho (outside of Boise, perhaps) so there aren't a whole lot of people to watch it with.
