I am the old woman at the anime club and I'm okay with that. Otakon was amazing, the hours in line were well worth the concerts. I haven't been active in anime fandom in years. Though I still watch anime and read manga there have been so many changes in the industry (especially with manga publishers) that I've shied away from investing my cash in a new manga series the way I use to. I looked around Otakon and most of the people I talked with I was old enough to be their unwed, teenage mother. Some of them had never heard of some of the animes I was into like Rurouni Kenshin or Escaflowne (crazy right). I love being able to get my anime fix on the cheap thanks to hulu and my local library has good manga collections so I don't have to spend my cash like I did back in high school/college.

That's the one thing I've kept my hand in about anime, the music. J-pop is fun and amazing and always makes me feel upbeat. And now Itunes is carrying some j-pop so that's exciting. I found a few new artists at Otakon and am going through my TM Revolution and Yoko kanno discographies and rocking out. I've also decided a to hunt down an save a few of the fics I read and loved from when I was in the fandom. Most of those sites haven't been updated in years but they're still up so I'm going to epub my faves before they disappear.

I spend my days in live action fandoms where in some cases I'm the barely legal kid at the club. It's all good.