Reflections on anime bloggin’

I went into this wanting a place to ramble to people, as my group staff was getting “…” at me for spamming the IRC room up with my stuff. Thank you all for listening in place of them. :D! Posting will die down and time will pretty much freeze here. Everything will be left in tact until I get tired of paying for my webhosting.

To Owen a.k.a. saturnine a.k.a. that guy who’s name I really only recall from iRO forums (purple Lain avatar? Wizard? Chaos?), thank you for your compliments about my writing, but I don’t think this level of “intelligent writing” is that magical considering I have all of one topic here. (I mean, when you have all of one topic, it’d be fairly pathetic if you could only produce the same writing as everyone else.)

…and even though I say “everyone else”, I’m not really sure who the “everyone else” is because I don’t really follow the anime blogosphere. During early May, I made this blog and went into this with the mindset of not liking anime blogs. In barely 5 months worth of blogging about an anime, this opinion hasn’t exactly changed. Part of this comes out of dislike for blogs like RandomC, so it was extremely amusing to wake up one day and find a link back from there. (I wonder if Omni saw the “Quit reading RandomC” tag, lol.)

I dislike anime blogs because sometimes I feel like the writer isn’t really writing because they like and/or enjoy something, but because they want to be popular, or in some cases blog things because they feel “obligated” to. (And since I’m a bitter person this opinion stretches itself to mean everyone!) So, people like say, jaalin, who was blogging Higurashi Kai because of some completely contrived reason, don’t fucking make sense to me. Now, I realize this sounds bizarre coming from a fansubber, but I only serve those who can play 720p h264 softsubbed mkv’s. Fuck yeah technology.

I set out to be entertaining, and based on feedback, I was. Soo, MISSION SUCCESSFUL. Commentators are asking “What’s next?”, but I don’t think I would be able to do something like this again. In my eyes, part of the success was simply that I devoted myself one topic and was enthusiastic about it. I don’t have much interest in giving my complete attention to a series like this for anything in fall, and none of the series in fall have Schneizel~ Also the blog is really only categorized and tagged for Geass, and re-organizing them for more general purposes would kill some of the lulz.