When I got into anime it was called Japanimation, I rented movies like Appleseed and Valley of the Wind, and you'd pay like $35 for two episodes of subtitled Ranma on VHS at Suncoast, or Bubblegum Crisis was the easiest to find. That sounds like weyaboomer to me. Before that it was just Robotech or Speed Racer on TV, and I don't think people really associated those with Japan as much as they just seemed unlike regular American cartoons.
I always loved the Sledgehammer! theme, but I didn't know until a couple of years ago that Danny Elfman composed it. It's one of his earlier themes, I probably wouldn't have known his name when I watched the show as a kid, I wasn't an Oingo Boingo fan, and I don't think I knew who'd done PeeWee's Big Adventure's music, as much as I liked that, too.
I think using fandom like kingdom, as in something to be a part of, sounds dumb to me. It started out like stardom, as in the state of being a star, or a fan, and used to be counted as having a level of stardom, or fandom, not being in one.
In my experience swimming isn't super common with Japanese people either, I don't know if Asian waters aren't as pleasant for swimming as American ones, or what it is.
My first CD player was a SegaCD, and my high school car certainly didn't have a CD player, so I recorded redbook audio from SegaCD games onto tapes, so I could bump Lunar and Robo Aleste and Wonder Dog in my car.
Jess does seem to swerve into outrage suddenly while talking about pretty light-hearted things, I've noticed. Some connections are clicking in her head that don't seem obvious to us listeners, I guess.
My only experience being called boss has been Filipino guys in Hawaii, anywhere else it would seem more odd, but here I guess it's just what they do.
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