Ha. Whippersnappers. Speed Racer.

First one I enjoyed? Robotech. Third sequence was the only good one. Watched Genesis Climber Mospeada in my 30s and gotta say - it holds up. There are messages in it that just aren't in most anything else and it's great. Plus Yellow Belmont the cross-dressing fighter-pilot internationally-renowned jazz singer.

Funny story. The arthouse decided to show My Neighbor Totoro a few years after it came out in Japan (prolly woulda been '90, '91). We missed it 'cuz they only showed it once. But no fear, anime fans! Because three weeks later they showed Urotsukidoji.

Which, of course, is a cartoon, right? So why not bring the kids, right? 'cuz it was unrated. And it was New Mexico, and that's just the sort of shit that happens.

So I'm probably one of the very few people who has ever had the opening of Urotsukidoji interrupted by a crying baby. I'll say that the look on the mother's face when she saw what she was in for was priceless... but the ensuing two hours convinced me beyond a reasonable doubt that there's something deeply wrong with Japanese culture.

Manga? I've got the Nausicaa boxed set but I haven't quite figured out how the hell to read it. That whole backwards thing is messing with me. This is a recent purchase, like within the past year.