Way back when, I stopped reading Seventeen when they kept referring to parents as “the ‘rents”. Nobody has ever said that in real life.

Telling douchy dudebros you’re into girls never helps, it just seems to spur them on. It’s sad, but the quickest and most final way to shut down a customer is to say you have a boyfriend.

Is her maiden name Havisham?

Oh shit, it’s the ME!ME!ME! girls.

I also enjoyed the BoogiePop movie despite its teen horror cheesiness. Just a bit of a nitpick: the movie was based on the first novel while the anime was a tie-in sequel based on later novels.

Ping Pong (2002) was really good. The soundtrack was amazing.

The first and third ones could double as Jem music videos.

You forgot the best: kabocha.

You are totally correct. In fact, elements that many people believe were computer generated, such as the hologram billboards in the opening chase, were hand-drawn.

It takes a few viewings to really understand all the intertwining plots. It also helps to read the manga - even just the first 2 volumes will give you a better sense of who is trying to do what.

It was not 100%. The Lego blocks in the giant bear scene were done with the aid of the computers.

Start doing like Pam Greer in Coffy and put razor blades in your hair.

For those old enough to remember, everyone in the 80s seemed to have a popcorn machine. But by the 90s no one had one anymore.

A vagina.

Man, I miss fan mags like that. The short-lived Anifantastique also always had so much great info.

I just looked it up and wow, that’s steep. I got mine at a used bookstore for 1/2 the cover price. But that was 10 years ago. Stuff going out of print sucks.

The Batman Animated book by Chip Kidd is also a wealth of interesting information.

Ah, “The Underdwellers”. That episode was so cool for being mostly dialog-free. It became an in-joke with my sister to say, “The light. The light,” whenever we got blinded by someone turning on a light or opening a curtain in a dark room.

TMS went on to do the Batman-inspired Cybersix.

“Day of the Samurai” and “The Worry Men” are low points in B:TAS animation.