washing dishes at samurai steak
Through the Anime & Manga Research Circle, i stumbled upon this, the autobiography of Jan Scott Frazier, or the incredible road from being a depressive gun collecting radio shack salesman to being an ultra glamorous anime director and producer, via washing dishes in Samurai Steak, Tokyo, or how an american can make it in the japanese animation industry. He’s taking part in lots of anime conventions with presentations on various production related issues but says also he could be good as participant in a panel about “Gender, Sexism and Sexuality Issues in Anime”.
Also loads of links, the usual ones, but also stuff about the problem of japanese ultranationalism and about transgender issues.