The latest episode of The Anime Business is an interview Justin Sevakis filmed with me about a year ago: “The Anime Business – Helen McCarthy on Discovering Anime, UK Fandom and the Joy of It All.” It’s online here.
It was fun to do and fascinating to watch. One of the best things about this series is how it focusses on individual views and recollections. Everybody tells their own story as they recall it. Nobody is a bad guy in their own story: observing myself and others, both those I’ve met and those I only know by accounts of their actions, I’m intrigued by how we pitch our past selves to the future. That’s instructive.
This segment is free to watch but there’s also a bonus segment with more of my memories and opinions, available to subscribers to the channel at any level above £4.99 a month. That’s fine by me. I think this series is a valuable piece of historic documentation and if paying for bonus episodes makes it possibly to keep filming more interviews, that’s good for all of us.
Full disclosure: I am now blonde. I still have that teal blue cashmere sweater, though – I love it.