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.
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. |
Executive Officer of Shinsei Anime |
Chris Raymer
President of the Memphis Anime Club |
Chris Raymer
Big supporter of the BBS network |
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. |
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 |
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.
Bambang Suryanto | ||
Gavin Chester | ||
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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.
huge KOR and MI fan |
huge fan of Street Fighter |
Brian Danker
MI fan |
watched all MI and KOR |
loved KOR, MI and Patlabor |
Daniel Klain
KOR fan |
Patlabor fan |
fan of Toy & Daicon |
Gordon Wong
a Gundam fan |
Maison and KOR fan. Even to this date 2005, Viz still has not released all the episodes of MI. |
Miracle Girls fan |
Jerry Martin
Maison Ikkoku Fan |
Rumiko Takahashi fan |
KOR and Sailor Moon fan |
John Hermans
MI, Patlabor and Gundam fan |
Jude Polzin
a real big anime fan |
Jude Polzin 2
even a suggestion |
Justus Pendleton
a KOR fan |
Kwan Wong
a fan of MI and KOR |
Laurine White
long time tape trader |
Leslie Mills
City Hunter fan |
Michael Breslau
Orange Road fan |
Luc Paiement
anime fan in Montreal |
Mason Chang
Maison and Lodoss fan |
Neal Rao
Maison Ikkoku fan |
Ron Jarrel
very supportive fan |
Shen-Fen Ho
big anime fan |
Thomas Stovicek
Canadian anime fan |
Todd Scott
big MI fan |
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A Bit Of History
Something that today's generation of kids with fast computers and an economical internet have no concept of, PAYING for materials and equipment. Here is the first step in classic subtitling. |
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