The Anime Costume Contest at MegaCon 2009 sponsored by Anime Sushi. This used to be the only costume contest at MegaCon and the tended to be a bit flexible with the “anime” aspect even though that was the emphasis. Now that have the more professional “Masters of Cosplay” competition but this one was always more fun.
https://dai.ly/x7t6sil
https://lbry.tv/@Megalextoria:b/anime_costume_contest_2009:5
Dirty Pair
Dirty Pair
http://darth-azrael.tumblr.com/post/161485698354/dirty-pair
My odyssey with anime began about the time I started college. This was in the early 1990s when anime was not nearly as common or easy to obtain in North America as it is today. Often, what you got to watch was second or third hand VHS copies of something someone got in Japan. It’s no coincidence that the rise of anime coincided with the rise of the Internet. However, even then there were a number of official releases through the late 1980s and early 1990s. One of these was Dirty Pair.
Dirty Pair is about two “Trouble Consultants” whose missions are usually successful but often result in mass destruction. I’m not sure what the original U.S. release dates were but the original TV series was released in Japan in 1985, followed by an OVA in December 1985, followed by a ten episode OVA that ran from 1987 to 1988 and then more releases through 1996. Dirty Pair started life as a novel before being translated into anime.
Dirty Pair is still an excellent choice if you are looking for something in the sci-fi/comedy genre. Personally, I like Bubblegum Crisis a bit better in the genre but Dirty Pair is a close second. If you are an anime fan and haven’t watched some of this older stuff you are missing out.
Forgotten OVAs of the Bubble Era.
http://darth-azrael.tumblr.com/post/161473825524/baburujidai-forgotten-ovas-of-the-bubble-era
