John Jacob Jingleheimer SchmitJul 7, 2023
To go on a slight tangent, in the days before #Simuldubs, when #anime dubs could take up to a year to release on home video after the initial broadcast date(s), the Houston Anime Meetup was often like this for me. I was already the odd man out as a 🇺🇸 dub watcher. Plus everything I wanted to talk about was already out-of-date and everyone else wanted to talk about the current season. Very rarely I'd get someone who would humor me with a discussion of a classic like FMA '03 or FMAB and we could vibe regardless what language we saw it in, but mostly it was pretty alienating and I just wanted to go home and, uh, watch more #anime.
Show threadJohn Jacob Jingleheimer Schmit
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.
Jul 7, 2023 at 4:43amWeb
Show threadJohn Jacob Jingleheimer SchmitJul 7, 2023
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.
Show threadJohn Jacob Jingleheimer SchmitJul 7, 2023
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.