Another strong influence when I in and just getting out of college was anime. I soaked it up like a sponge....well as much as I could because there wasn't a whole out yet. Almost nothing was dubbed, synopis sheets are your friend! No ADV, Viz was just getting started and Streamline dubs generally sucked! But never mind once month I showed up for anime club meetings, and every pay day I went over to D&J Hobbies and bought copies of B-Club, Koku-fan, Hobby Japan although I couldn't read a single page of it. The art and photograph was just so cool! At one point I scored some stuff from I guy who had a run a mail order operation and was closing shop. I had a chance to go through his remaining stock and pick up stuff just pennies. Now most of it had been pretty picked over by the time I got to it but that didn't matter. It all looked cool and I wanted it. These are some vacc suits based on some anime I have never heard of, still don't what it is from, but some of the tech was great.