To start at the beginning, we’ll have to go all the way back to 1994. HTML was just starting out on the internet, so the only thing you could online was stuff on Newsgroups or through Archie or Veronica (early search engines if you would). Only business people used pagers and you never saw a cell phone.
New and hot Anime at the time was shows like Project AKo, Gall Force, Urusei Yatsura, Bubblegum Crisis, Devil Hunter Yohko, and Ranma ½. The only manga really out was from Viz and included such titles as Ranma ½ and Silent Möbius. Well Dark Horse had just released Oh My Goddess! (which came out at the same time as the AnimEigo OAV release), which was done by Studio Proteus. At A-Kon that year were Tomoko Saito and Toren Smith of Studio Proteus. Studio Proteus really did a lot of the translating of early manga in the US with such titles like Nausicaa, Akira, Outlanders, Gunsmith Cats, and Appleseed.
