Arctic Animation Dedication Page

 

In the early days of anime in North America, Japanese Animation had a very cult following of die hard fans willing to watch horribly dubbed, multiple generation tape copies, Japanese only, and even paid bootleggers as much as $20 a tape for anime.

Arctic Animation came to life in 1988, where I started a movement to begin translating Japanese animation to make it more accessable to everyone. Using the fan networks by snail mail, BBS networks like FidoNet, and the early internet (not like the information super highway it is now), and other anime clubs; Arctic Animation became one of the largest anime producers and distributors in the North American Anime scene. Soon many other anime groups jumped into the picture to help with the distribution and the creation of anime for English speaking people.

It didn't take long before commerical interests finally noticed that anime had potential in North America, and they started to make anime available to the masses. At last after almost 15 years, I see the fruits of my work succeed. Who would have thought that we would be able to see such anime classics like Dragonball and Mobile Suit Gundam on North American TV. Well, back in 1988, it was nothing more than a fantastic dream, but now 15 years later, the dream is now reality. I am proud to be one of the pioneers to help bring this fantastic source of entertainment world wide.

Below are some of the letters that really stand out from my collection of letters. When I was cleaning out my files and records, I had over 5 long comics boxes packed full and filled with letters and fan mail.

 

Letters From Famous People

Not everyone I dealt with were people from the anime clubs but some people were. There were also people who started as just anime fans and later became famous too. I don't have every famous person listed here but here is a few I managed to pull and scan in. Click on the name to see their letter.

Anna Exter Letter 1 The translator for Dan Cougar and Sonic Soldier Borgman, later gained her fame translating shows like Sabre Marionette J and Tsukage Ran.	Anna Exter Letter 2 She spent many hours and many nights in my basement subtiting Dan Cougar.	Bruce Carlson Creator of Panimator, a real time subtitling program for the Macintosh.
Ellison Navales Executive Officer of Shinsei Anime	Chris Raymer President of the Memphis Anime Club	Chris Raymer Big supporter of the BBS network
Franklin Wang Head of Nexus Studios, who also did fansubbing.	James Yee General Secretary for DKJY Anime Club	Jason Bemis member of Cal Animage anime club in Santa California.
Jim Yee General Secretary for Club DKJY anime	Kelli Hazelwood Member of EDC Anime, publisher of the "Whispers of Iscandar" fanzine	Martin Ouelette Ianus Productions, Publishers of Protoculture Addicts and Mecha Press
Lloyd Rich Lupin Anime Club, a very interesting letter to read.	Lloyd Rich Another strange letter from Lupin anime	Michelle Rhodes another fansubber and distributor
Robert Woodhead Creator of the game Wizardry and the head of Animeigo	Roy Bruce member of JAN and EDC as well as the old C/FO-OVA	Sylvio Martins president of Fanime
For the sake of Paramount, a person whom I will refer to as the Star Trek Guy Assistant Director for Star Trek Voyager & Enterprise, and anime fan

 

Letters From Donators

Here is a short list of the many many people who have donated money, translations, equipment, computers, networking and videos to help Arctic Animation. Again, this is not a complete list, but here is a few of the letters I found. Click on their name to see their letter.

 

Devoted Fans

Here is just a few of the many letters of praise from new and old fans of anime. Click on their name to see their letter.

A Bit Of History

 

 

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