About New York City Anime and me
Note: Check out the Time Out New York article on me shopping for anime.
About the New York City Anime web site
I created this site in 1998, so this year is its 10th anniversary. (Note that it was not originally at this address.)
My goal for New York City Anime is to make it the best web guide to anime resources in New York City and vicinity. I can not achieve this alone. I encourage anyone to email me with information or suggestions.
New York City Anime is my personal hobby web site. It is not a non-profit site, nor is its primary purpose commercial. I do host paid advertising on the site, as well as affiliate links (from which I can earn commissions).
I am an Amazon.com associate. If you go to Amazon.com from a link on my site and buy anything there (whether it is something I linked or not), I receive a small commission at no cost to you.
The domain nyc-anime.com was originally registered by my friend Ralph Young; I have assumed the domain with his consent. You can view a copy of Ralph’s old site as of Autumn 1998.
My other anime web sites
I have been creating and maintaining websites starting in 1995, both personally and professionally. My other anime-related sites include
- Metro Anime, the site for the New York
City anime club Metro Anime. (I maintain this site, but I did not design or
create it.)
- ConPix: Anime Convention Pictures
- Clyde’s Anime Reviews
- Cincinnati Anime
- Clyde’s anime portal
About me
My name is Clyde Adams III. The photo shows me at Anime Expo 1998 with ADV Films spokesmodel Malinda (in costume as Naga the White Serpent from I’m the one on the right. (Update: I don’t resemble this picture as closely as I did; I lost the beard and a lot of weight.)
Why I am an anime fan
Good anime is strikingly original, emotionally resonant, entertaining, and thought-provoking; a cut above most good home-grown products.
Great anime ranks with the highest art; it touches the heart and moves the soul. The works of Miyazaki Hayao, writer and director of the Oscar-winning Spirited Away, are in this class.
My life as an anime fan
I calculate that I became an anime fan early in 1991, though I started to be interested in the mid-1980s. A friend lent me some tapes, and I said to myself, I need to see more of this. That September, I attended my first anime convention, AnimeCon in San Jose. Later that year, I started actively trading anime tapes.
In 1992, I attended AnimeExpo, I became active in the local anime club (I was living in Cincinnati), and I got an Internet account. Anime fans were on the Internet when hardly anyone else was yet, because it was the best way to communicate with other fans and to learn about anime. (I make my living on the Internet now, but I started because of anime.)
I attended many more anime conventions in the following years, including AnimeExpo, KatsuCon, Otakon, and ShoujoCon. I was interviewed by a Japanese TV news crew at Otakon 1995; their broadcast did not include my interview, but did include a shot of me in my yukata (cotton kimono). I became deeply involved with the local Cincinnati con, SugoiCon, serving as con chair in 1996. I served as official photographer for several subsequent SugoiCons.
In 1998, I moved to New York City for a job. I went to Japan on a business trip, and did some anime-related shopping as well. I became active in the Metro Anime club, and created the New York City Anime web page. I started taking digital photos of anime conventions, starting with AnimeExpo 1998.
In 2000: I acquired the domain metroanime.org for the Metro Anime club. I became an anime reviewer for the Sci-Fi channel, writing 45 reviews over the course of the year; they were published on the Sci-Fi channel’s Anime Colony web site, now gone; I have archived those reviews as Clyde’s Anime Reviews. I became involved with the first ShoujoCon as a volunteer and quasi-official photographer. I created the web site conpix.org for my photos of anime conventions and other anime fan events.
In 2001, I moved to California with my job. I kept in contact with anime fans in New York and Cincinnati, and kept the New York City Anime web page up to date.
In 2005, I acquired the domain nyc-anime.com from my friend Ralph Young for my New York City Anime web site. That same year, I took over hosting and updating the Metro Anime club web site at metroanime.org.
In 2007, I moved back to New York City.
In December 2007, at the first annual New York Anime Festival (NYAF), I made a presentation and led a panel discussion on Anime in New York City.
Contact
Contact me at fan@nyc-anime.com