--- Kathleen <rocket98@gte.net> wrote:
> As for access to anime being restricted, I guess we
> in So. Cal are pretty 
> lucky. 
...
>Plus there is the monthly Comic
> convention at the Shrine (I 
> have never been but always want to) and Anime Expo
> in the summer.

Well, about 10 years ago it was better than any comic
convention I have been to out here one the east coast
(and now they're all gone).  I took it for granted,
now I just suffer -- hopefully you can get out there
and it will be as good as it was a decade ago.  They
used to have a lot of anime (but much was bootleg
copies -- don't know if they ever cracked down on it).

> What we 
> don't have is rental tapes, and only Suncoast to buy
> from if you don't want 
> to make the drive to AnimePlus or have to have
> something right now. My son 
> works at the local video store now so we are trying
> to get them to get more 
> series, and some on DVD. That would be nice.

As far as rental goes, living where I do, it would be
a miracle to find more than 20 Japanese Anime movies
at any store within 100 miles -- no series at all. 
But other than Suncoast, and a place called Fat
Jacks', there is nowhere to buy, except on-line.
I assume you live too far from Little Tokyo to buy in
the stores there...?  That's where my friend from L.A.
used to get all his tapes (Lupin, Urusei Yatsure,
etc.).

Gregory Himes

Still thinking all us Otaku ought to rise up as one
powerful mass and create an Otaku cable/sattelite TV
network.