So I was an attendee of the first Midwest US anime con, AnimeIowa, back in 1997. It was very small but it was extremely revelatory for 15 year old me and probably helped set me down a dark path of weebry from which one cannot recover.
Anyway, one of the things I remember most about AnimeIowa was not at the event itself. It was this article from our local paper about the event, digitized recently by the Cedar Rapids public library. If you thought "Cowboy Bebop at his computer" was some comedy, then BOY do I have a treat for you!
The rhetorical gymnastics it takes to literally conclude with, "Japanese cartoon people have more sex on screen than American ones because they have bathhouses over there. Anyway, the convention is open until this afternoon."
