Not Quite Second Nature (or Prisoners of Gravity anew)

Taking a mutual chance, I did manage to get home for the Easter long weekend. While I was there, I also managed to remember how in recent days I’d been thinking again about the combination VCR and DVD recorder my parents have had for a while and our many taped-off-the-air videocassettes stashed four rows deep in a cabinet for longer than that. In particular, I was remembering a peculiar interview series about science fiction, comics, and related topics called Prisoners of Gravity that had been on the provincial educational channel in the early 1990s, and in particular there I was thinking about an episode about animation that had discussed Akira and shown the first clips of “anime I knew was from Japan” I’d ever seen (although it had taken a bit longer after that to understand there was more animation from Japan than Akira and “the Japanese version of Robotech”).
( Chills and thrills )