Steve Pearl
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| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Steve Pearl |
| Alias(es): | American Otaking[1] |
| Type: | moderator, tribber, editor, con attendee, etc. |
| Fandoms: | anime |
| Communities: | rec.arts.anime.misc & many others |
| Other: | |
| URL: | Archive of personal page |
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Steve Pearl played a key role in the growth of anime fandom in the United States.
He passed away November 12th, 2007.[1]
Fanac
- moderator of rec.arts.anime.misc, a Usenet group, from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s[1]
- created the rec.arts.anime.misc "list of frequently asked questions"[1]
- created the Anime/Manga Convention Guide [1]
- founded and coordinated two New Jersey anime clubs "Rutgers Anime" and "Megazone NJ"[2]
- founded "International Friends of Shizuka Kudo"[2]
- was a fan guest of honor
- edited the zines: "The Atlantia", "SDF", "Spiral Arms", "The Rutgers Anime Song Book", and "Shizuka's Journal"[2]
- was a tribber to anime magazines, fanzines & APAs including AM Plus, Anime Access, Animeco, Animerica, EX, Get Stuf'd, Mangazine, Protoculture Addicts, DuoWorld, Nexus Six, The Rose, Anime Zasshi, Anime Inc, Ranma APA, and Endless Road [2]
- in 1994, Pearl, along with Chet Jasinski, founded the Anime Alliance[2]
- was a frequent anime con attendee, including every Otakon from 1994 to 2000[1]
- once met former Gainax president Toshio Okada, "who is known in Japan as the Otaking, after the title of the highest level of otaku in Gainax's Otaku no Video anime" and was named the "American Otaking" by Okada.[1]