what did "otaku" mean in 1993 in the UK?

This is very Jon Bois, especially the reveal of the timeline. Absolutely loved every second of it!

i swear to god these video titles and thumbnails are gold without context

I'm a Brit, and you astutely and correctly predict my first exposure to the word 'otaku' was in the hallowed pages of Super Play. There quickly followed Manga Mania magazine and, of course, Manga Video. There were thousands upon thousands of us all delving into this world during those early nineties, it was a mini explosion, not quite into mainstream, but seemed like it might.

your production quality keeps getting better and better! jon bois-style yet again proves to be a very versatile way of presenting things that involve a timeline of events

I just love these niche deep dives you make. Also, that out of bounds with videos you made also is making a whole lot more sense now. Lol I could tell it was being used a couple of times here.

Loving all these non-mix videos you've been doing lately.

Interesting to dig these up and re-look at them. Coming out of the 00s era weebzone--pre the ubiquitous videos in 3 parts on youtube--a lot of my frame of reference is coming between that time where manga UK and central park media put out those dubs and yellow hard subbed releases (I still own a bunch of the classic US Manga Corp stuff), and when I first got uTorrent in probably 2006-7 and started going to Nyaa and Tokyo Toshokan. One of my friends older brother was a turbo weeb (and I didn't notice it at the time, but it's pretty obvious in hindsight), and a lot of the anime I saw outside of cartoon network and saturday morning cartoons was through the stuff he had on hand, which was the standard OVA stuff. The electronic music connection might have been imported to the US via toonami by looking to 90s UK culture, because Manga UK and Central Park Media tended to put a more hardcore Thrash/death metal "this ain't your dad's cartoons" look (The iconic Celtic Frost trailer for Manga UK still speaks to me on a physical level).

Amazing 3d graph and camera animations. Combined with sick highlights and bg music

That Manga logo in the thumbnail takes me back. Back to a time when anime and video games felt more niche, when my budget was smaller, and the world felt bigger. Back when I’d buy whatever was on the shelf, and watch the same 9 episodes of Martian Sucessor Nadesico not ever knowing if I’d ever finish the series because the tapes werent on the shelf at my local store. Now its an endless backlog of content I workthrough, watch, and forget about. Sometimes I write in a personal journal how I felt about a show to try to recapture the wonder. But nothing can quite replace being in a media desert and stumbling upon new content that happened to find its way into your little corner of the world.

My man, I knew you had EXQUISITE musical taste as soon as I spotted that igorrr cover on screen in the intro! Than I took a brief glance at the playlist and noticed a couple more names that I recognize like spoonbill, haywyre and some others so I'll definitely be checking it out in full later! Thanks a lot for sharing :3

the funny thing about anime culture in US and UK in that era is that patient zero is so very trackable. Everything was so underground and yet coming up right as usenet gave way to the internet letting you spread everything far and wide, that it was the perfect moment for things to blow up despite repeated attempts by various groups beforehand. Great editing, great story. I think you hit the nail on the head.

editing on this is so cool, same with the otaku story

What a wonderful rabbithole, thank you for sharing

Great motion design and editing

Damn I've been checking out you're vgm mixes for years i must have missed this newer set of videos! Honestly fantastic production style here i love the seamless 3d timeline!

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amazing editing

Gonna be a cool video to watch.

Fantastic as always :)

Manga Mania magazine was a big thing for me back then in the uk.