Japanese Entertainment News & Pop Culture since 1993
We know that many of our readers were planning to travel to Japan during March/April for the cherry blossoms, concerts, AnimeJapan 2020 and were wondering if it was possible to cancel and get full refunds on their flight. United Airlines has suspended routes to Japan Read More …
Hi everyone! Just a heads up that many of us from THE SPY! CREW off to KCON LA 2019 (to see IZ*ONE and many other groups we listen to) and while we won’t be posting probably anything this weekend (and possibly part of Monday), we Read More …
We apologize for the unforeseen downtime! We are currently being attacked by a mysterious entity. Our forces are on it! Send us positive energy!
Greetings everyone, We just wanted to let everyone know that many of us will be busy in Japan from mid-March to April as we will be busy covering events such as Anime Japan 2019, the kick off of the new NPB baseball season, busy with Read More …
January 1999. Utada Hikaru’s “Automatic” was topping the singles charts with an awesome debut the previous month, while SMAP’s “Yozora no Mukou” was the #1 song of 1998. KinKi Kids “Happy Happy Greeting” signaled in a new year, meanwhile January 1st featured the major label Read More …
We would like to thank everyone for their support of the return of Neo-Tokyo 2099. Your support has been amazing! In seven months, we have now surpassed 3,000,000 page views! THANK YOU!!!
A big thank you for those who welcomed Neo-Tokyo 2099 back. In five months since our return for our 25th anniversary, we have now surpassed a million page views. It’s also cool to see the many countries where are our viewership is from and we Read More …
Interview by Dennis A. Amith Years before anime publications in English such as “Animerica”, “Anime UK” and “Protoculture Addicts” were released in magazine and comic book shops, anime fans would have to obtain news and information through BBS and text-based zines. “Anime Stuff”, which was Read More …
In 1993, NEO-TOKYO 2099 was a BBS and the BBS site looked like this… But in 1996, we went on the web and we were happy to be leave the ASCII realm and now develop our sites via HTML. But over the years, the Read More …
The following was featured on Neo-Tokyo 2099 Mega-zine issue #2 (1994) and written by Drew W. (aka Ataru Moroboshi) from Middletown, New York and sysop of Graviton City BBS. Well, being that this is the first article I ever written for a ‘zine, I guess Read More …
With FanimeCon taking place next weekend, this week’s FLASHBACK features an anime convention report from FANIME CON SPRING’ 95 that KNDY wrote for Neo-Tokyo 2099 Mega-Zine back in 1995. On February 25th, Fanime Con Spring ’95 took place at California State University, Hayward. Let me Read More …
The following was an anime convention report that KNDY wrote for Neo-Tokyo 2099 Mega-Zine back in 1994. We will put commentary in some areas of the report. Anime America 1994 was a cool convention! With guest of honor: Go Nagai (Cutey Honey, Mazinger Z, just Read More …
The year 1993. Neo-Tokyo 2099 was born. A BBS site before the Internet became mainstream, the main technology was a PC running on Windows 3.1, 2,400-bit/s modems were common, while 9,600 bit/s V.32 modems were for those willing to spend a lot of money for Read More …
When it comes to the earlier years of the promotion of Japanese animation in America through the anime convention scene, there are numerous individuals that we will forever remember for their contribution in building awareness. Donald Yee was one of those people. The President of Read More …