John DoeThis is what the Hosts for #AnimeAtTheAlamo used to project onto the movie screen as we all filed in on any given Tuesday night for the #anime screening, usually 4 episodes back to back. #GoodTimes
John Jacob Jingleheimer SchmitI miss the regulars at #AnimeAtTheAlamo and I miss going there with friends made in our local adult ASD support group sharing a common interest in #anime. Alas our support group had to stop meeting face-to-face because of COVID but also because our ASD family therapist has severe vertigo and other health problems so in-person is just not feasible for them anymore. So we're all virtual now and I do attend sometimes but not nearly as often....and my closest friends who dug anime moved out of state before the pandemic.
Rommel Salandanan himself moved back to 🇵🇭 for family & professional reasons, so #AnimeAtTheAlamo fell to a different group of volunteers and they had a great run for several years after Rommel's departure but with the COVID shutdown it died...it has come back in limited form under the auspices of #Comicpalooza but once that con is done it shuts down again. HIDIVE seems to have no interest in reviving it and restoring its pre-pandemic format, alas.
So #AnimeAtTheAlamo was definitely > than #HoustonAnimeMeetup ; both groups are now defunct (casualties of COVID) but #AnimeAtTheAlamo lasted longer. Every now and then someone tries to revive the #AnimeMeetup but it always fizzles out after half a year or so.
In the early days, #AnimeAtTheAlamo in Houston was the personal project of one dude, Rommel Salandanan, and us regulars defacto formed his weird little #anime club, almost like a college anime club only we were grown-ass adults in our 20s and 30s and it was fun to drink 🍺 and watch 
#anime together....these screenings were always the 🇺🇸 Dub of new release from ADV Films, later FUNimation.
#anime together....these screenings were always the 🇺🇸 Dub of new release from ADV Films, later FUNimation.Ugh...I have it on Blu-Ray 📀 but I still need to finish Brynhildr in the Darkness (Japanese: 極黒のブリュンヒルデ). What was notable at the time was that it was a #SentaiFilmworks release but used some DFW area actors normally associated with #Funimation shows, like Jamie Marchi that made all of us in the theater at #AlamoDrafthouse sit up and take notice. #anime #AnimeAtTheAlamo
Yours truly with long time Anime voice actor Jessica Calvello, aka the 🇺🇸 voice of Hange Zoe from Attack on Titan, among many other notable roles, including Cutie Honey. #AnimeAtTheAlamo
Yours truly with Brittney Lauda, the 🇺🇸voice of Riko from Made in Abyss. Photo taken at Alamo Drafthouse La Centerra in Katy, TX, before the pandemic. #AnimeAtTheAlamo
Pic with veteran anime voice actor Luci Christian for one of the Made in Abyss recap movies. I really miss #AnimeAtTheAlamo as a regular thing each month….many of the 🇺🇸 voice cast would attend these screenings!