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Malinda and Clyde

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; it was not originally at this web 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 may 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 anime-related sites include

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 Slayers amazon Wikipedia ANN IMDb; 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 started to be mildly interested in anime in the mid-1980s. I calculate that I became a fan early in 1991 when 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. I have since hosted versions of this panel (renamed Finding Anime in NYC), at NYAF 2008, AnimeNEXT 2008, and NYAF 2009. I hosted a similar panel, Finding Manga in NYC, at MangaNEXT 2008.

In April 2008, I was the guide and source for a Time Out New York article on shopping in New york for anime, manga, and related merchandise.

In September 2008 at the New York Anime Festival (NYAF), I was a guest panelist on my friend Roland Kelts’ Japanamerica panel. (Roland is the author of author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the US (2006) amazon.) This panel was the subject of an article, and it was recorded and published as a video playlist on Youtube by my friend Lawrence Brenner. I am in part 11 & part 12 of the video playlist, and in the article paragraph starting “To this, Adams added...”

Contact

Contact me at fan@nyc-anime.com