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Reddit post about mid-90s anime-related newsgroup threads. It is interesting to compare the old threads to MAL discussions today.
Reddit thread about what it was like being an anime fan in the 80s and 90s.
Various types of Literary Criticism
What is Objective Critique of Stories? Part 1
Between you and it: On subjective and objective critique in art and games

What is 'Bad' Animation?. Discusses actual animation techniques and provides information for the layperson with little or no background in art or animation.
12 Principles of Animation (Official Full Series). Good video--thanks to Vasilivros for the link.
Sakuga: The Animation of Anime (2013 presentation) by Sean Bires--this is his 16-part presentation from Chicago's Anime Central 2013. Thanks to TripleSRank for the link.

The History of Robotech, Part One
Not Voltron, not Star Blazers, but Robotech, was THE anime that spurred Generation X's awareness of anime and spread the otaku subculture to the West.

It is pretty clear that the majority, if they spoke without passion and were fully articulate, would not accuse us of liking the wrong books, but of making such a fuss about any books at all. We treat as a main ingredient in our well-being something which to them is marginal. Hence to say simply that they like one thing and we another is to leave out nearly the whole of the facts. If like is the correct word for what they do to books, some other word must be found for what we do. Or, conversely, if we like our kind of book we must not say that they like any book. If the few have 'good taste', then we may have to say that no such thing as 'bad taste' exists: for the inclination which the many have to their sort of reading is not the same thing and, if the word were univocally used, would not be called taste at all.
-- C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

Profile Pic from John Warry's Warfare in the Classical World.

List heading pic from Circle-A on deviant art, entitled Melee. Thanks to Manaban for the information.