I don't know how it is in Japan, but here in the States, the whole idea of packaged video appears on the way out.
My friends and I often say to each other that it's a wonderful thing we weren't born ten years later, in the age of Youtube, because kids like us would have shared a million awful videos
In the old days, when people were trying to figure out just what to call the stuff these tapes they got from Japan,
Have you guys heard the Animetal USA album? (http://animetalusa.com/) It's been a while since it came out, but it's really impressive!
I've talked before about how Japanese anime-- especially the kids' stuff-- is often cut, changed and censored before it's brought before American kids. Cultural differences and all that. Millions of kids
In the previous article on the word “Glomp” I painted the open floor of the anime convention as a place where one runs the risk-- however small-- of being tackled to the ground
If you went ahead and read KC Green's “The Anime Club”, you might have gotten the idea that every gathering of anime geeks in America