Good morning old schoolers!
Well here we are, what would have been Fanime Friday for 2021 (and still is for Virtual FanimeCon). I cannot emphasize enough how much I wish we were all going to be meeting up together on this evening for what is my favorite Fanime tradition. This gathering truly is what got me into cosplay, first in 2014, and is a large part of what brought me back into anime fandom completely after returning to conventions in 2012. All of you who attend, who have such varied interests in anime and cosplay characters, who inspire me to look into the series and movies and manga you cosplay from (which although all from before 2001, seems vast and ever expanding), to see your construction and design techniques for costumes where you may be the only person at the entire convention cosplaying as that character - are a part of what brought me back into the convention fandom as well.
Please take care of yourselves, enjoy the virtual Fanime weekend if you are participating, and I hope to see you all in one year's time.
For this week's OP I'm going with a film special that took a bunch of "usual suspect" Tezuka Productions characters and mixed them up together in different roles and circumstances - a bit like the convention scene as of late. Marine Express was a television movie commissioned for an annual 24-hour charity special. In addition to having been shown at Fanime in years previous, it also makes an appearance in the outstanding Game Boy Advance game Astro Boy: Omega Factor, which itself is an amazing love letter to Osamu Tezuka fans.
Celebrating An Era - 1970's! Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBOr140mjlY