Anime Chaos
was originally started in about 1994, however; it was under
a different name back then. All we did was sell comic books,
Star Wars toys, Magic cards, and the like at local comic shows
and small conventions in the NW Indiana region.
Around
late 1996 we slowly got out of comic books but retained a large
growing interest in anime, and my personal interest in animation
cel collecting. In about early 1997 we officially changed our
name to "Anime Chaos" and started a small Geocites
freebie website selling anime cels. It grew, and did so pretty
fast.
1999 we
finally registered "animechaos.com" on the web and
made a whole new website that specialized in the retail of anime
cels. Our fist official AC website looked like a urine stain.....it
was bad. Hard on the eyes, not to easy to navigate, but it still
did very well. We went through a few site redesigns. There was
the techy look like in the top banner, and our final cel retail
version of the site that used the second banner. You can see
a screenshot of the final version of the old site in your top
right corner.
We sold
anime cels primarily until 2002. In december of that year we
decided to try out a deputy service. One that could bid on japanese
auctions sites and import them for customers. You can import
just about anything on Yahoo! Japan A
uctions;
DVDs, toys, games, clothes, dolls, cards, etc. The "Anime
Chaos Deputy Service" as it was known then grew faster
than we ever thought. So much so, that we had to break away
the deputy service from Anime Chaos into its own brand; Shopping
Mall Japan.
Shoppingmalljapan.com
was founded in July of 2004 and took the full attention of the
AC team. Also, with most new anime being produced with CG and
no longer cels, it was getting harder and harder to come up
with good new stock for AC's retail cel sales. So about the
same time, nearly coinciding with the launch of SMJ, the original
AC retail site closed up shop.
At the
end of Anime Chaos's retail sales days we're proud to say that
many of our customers regarded us as the biggest and best cel
shop online. And once again I'd like to thank all our old customers
for making us the most popular online cel shop for its time.
Even so, many of our old AC customers are still with us bidding
and shopping with SMJ.
Now, after
being completely dormant for the past two years, I've finally
decided to give some kind of rebirth to AC. A retail site we
simply don't have the time for, but the one thing we do make
time for is watching some anime. And with over 1,200 anime DVDs
in my collection and counting......I have plenty of material
to work with.
June, 2006
- Anime Chaos relaunches as an anime video review site. We'll
see how things go....
