Hello, I’m Chris, and I go by the handle Animewriter.
I’ve been a long time anime fan, I first got hooked on anime in the very early 80’s with the arrival of Star Blazers (Uchū Senkan Yamato/Space Battleship Yamato),to American Television. Viewing Star Blazers has lead me to a lifelong love of anime, and foreign films.
While in the military I lived in Korea for two years, were I discovered a love of Asian culture, and society. I also visited Japan several times during my stay in Korea, this gave me a look at the people, and culture of Japan that goes beyond the anime stereotypes.
I have studied film history, and theory while in college, along with my studies in psychology, and sociology. During my college studies I joined many film and anime clubs, and as recently as two years ago ran a anime club that specialized in showing cutting edge anime, but also included anime showings that could be watched viewers of all ages. The club also had monthly showings of older anime, and classic (pre Sailor Moon) shojo anime.
Over the years I have amassed a large library dedicated to the study of anime, Asian culture, Asian religion, Asian mythology, film studies, with many of the books being rare or out of print. I have a large video collection that includes over one thousand anime DVDs, one hundred plus Asian horror films, and a computer collection that has over 1 terabytes of anime files.
Now in my spare time that’s leftover after work, and hanging out with friends, I still like to watch, read, and research anime and Asian culture. Well, that’s about it, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
Oh, by the way I’m always interested in discussing or watching anime especially over coffee, or if you would like to contact me about a anime question just leave me a comment here. If you need to sent me a EEEEEEmail please sent it to remove brackets and fix[[[[chrisoldschoolanimefan]]]] at [[[gmail dot com]]].
April 1, 2009 at 3:58 pm
yo, thx for all the awesome reviews, i especially loved all you reviews on clannad. keep up the good work
April 10, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Hi there! I’ve recently just finished watching the clannad series and did that while reading your end reviews at the same time.
I’m glad i did cuz whilst it being a gut wrenching anime, there were parts that I might not get at times or mostly episode 22 of the after story where it went back to when nagisa just gave birth to ushio. But reading your review gave me a deeper understanding of the story and the light orbs as well as the girl and robot in the dream world. Whether or not it was meant to be interpreted that way or just speculation on your part, I do think that it is probably the best way to be interpreted. =)
Anyways I love this anime to bits and will look to you for future reviews!
April 10, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Hello, would u care for a link exchange?
My adress is Anime Cupy
Please let know ure answer.
Thanks
Best wishes, Cupy
April 13, 2009 at 7:32 pm
what anime is that. All I know is that it came form your website.
May 16, 2009 at 7:26 am
@ Kori Anime is obvious where it comes from and Cupy is my nickname. I have lots of information about anime in my native language and in English as well. Though i still have some posts to translate from my language to English.
June 6, 2009 at 7:49 pm
nice blog you got here
July 13, 2009 at 9:17 pm
thanks for all the wonderful reviews.
have you watched FuliCuli?
regards,
July 14, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Thanks for the feedback, yes I’ve watched FuliCuli and I love it, I even own the series on DVD.
November 20, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Hellew! Loved your blog, am subscribing! Just started mine, also about anime, maybe you’ll be interested too
just looking for some friendly people who also love anime as much as me!)