About Mainichi Anime Yume
Welcome to 毎日アニメ夢(Mainichi Anime Yume or MAY for short), the blog extension of AnimeYume.com! ^_^ I first began work on this blog in October 2006. For visitors of AnimeYume.com who are also visiting Mainichi Anime Yume, I hope you enjoy it ^^ And for those of you who have never been to my main site, AnimeYume.com, I hope you’ll decide to check it out as well. Anyway, onto the important part of this page; what kind of anime blog site is Mainichi Anime Yume, why did I decide to make it, and how will it affect my work on AnimeYume.com.
What kind of anime blog site is Mainichi Anime Yume?
In order to get an idea of the kind of posts you’ll find on MAY, I think it’s important that you know what kind of anime fan I am. I’m interested in just about all kinds of anime, and many of my favorite series come from a variety of anime genres. I love all kinds of anime, from shounen series like Inuyasha, Naruto, and One Piece, “kiddy” shows like Digimon and Pokemon (I’m a big-time fan of the Pokemon games), mecha series like Evangelion, Eureka 7, and Gundam Seed, shoujo series like Fruits Basket and Fushigi Yugi, “dark” series like Noir and Wolf’s Rain, oldies but goodies like Cardcaptor Sakura and Slayers, fan favorites like Lucky Star, Azumanga Daioh, Suzumiya Haruhi…and pretty much all others in between. Since my interest in anime is so various, I’m hoping that the posts here on MAY will appeal to a great variety of anime fans ^_^
I know most anime blog sites have one or more specific focuses, such as on-the-spot anime news, images and screencaps, episode-by-episode reviews on the latest series, rants about this and that, etc,. I don’t really have a specific focus here on MAY other than just posting about anime topics that interest me. But I mostly focus on anime reviews and anime-related essays/rants, with other things in between. Here’s a quick rundown on the categories of posts I write:
-Anime English Dubs: anything involving English versions of anime, such as new dub releases, my opinions and comparisons about an anime dub, etc
-Anime First Impressions: when I start watching a new anime series that I never saw before, I’ll write about my initial impressions of it here
-Anime News: if an anime news item comes up that interests me and I feel like writing about it, the post will be in this category
-Anime Products: any interesting anime products on the market that I see or purchase and feel like writing about
-Anime Reviews: I don’t usually have the patience to write episode-by-episode reviews of every series I’m currently watching. So I write reviews of anime in general, when I’ve watched at least half the episodes and/or the entire series. Reviews of anime movies are here as well. Be warned, my reviews are spoiler filled and are meant to be read by those who have seen the anime already.
-Essays and Rants: every now and then, a topic comes up that I feel like writing extensively about (I try to keep them anime-related). Though most of my essays and rants are long, I think they’re some of my better posts
-Events and Holidays: anime-related events that I attend or hear about will be in this category. Also, special holiday posts where I wish my visitors “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Halloween,” etc., will be here
-Haruhi Suzumiya: Haruhi has been my favorite series for the past couple of years so of course I’ll have lots of posts related to it =)
-Images, Videos, and Mp3s: posts in which I discuss and give direct downloads or links to any music, image, or other media files
-Inuyasha Manga: Inuyasha has been my favorite manga series for many years, and although the manga is now over and I’ve moved on to other things, at one point I reviewed the individual manga chapters from chapter 482 to 520. Other Inuyasha-related posts can also be found in this section too
-Japan & Japanese: in addition to being a major anime fan, I’m also a dedicated Japanese language learner. So any posts involving my Japanese study, or Japan and Japanese in general, will be here
-Lyrics & Other Translations: my (amateur) translations of anime songs or other Japanese items
-Miscellaneous: don’t need to explain this one, do I?
-Pokemon: Pokemon is what got me interested in anime to begin with, and it’s been my favorite video game series since then
-Site News: news, updates, or other info about either this site or the main AnimeYume.com site
-Video Games: other than anime and Japanese, another, more minor hobby of mine is videos games. I’m not a big-time gamer, but there are some games I enjoy (especially the Pokemon line of games). So any game reviews or news items about video games that interest me will be here
Why did I decide to make Mainichi Anime Yume?
First of all, because of my main site, AnimeYume.com. I started work on AnimeYume.com way back in the summer of 2002. Since then, I’ve received over 900,000 hits and excellent feedback. Once the rise of blog sites began to take place around 2004 or so, I still decided to stick with my simple, html-based anime web site.
But around the summer of 2006, I felt like I reached a point in my life where I just didn’t have the time or motivation I used to have in order to do big updates on Anime Yume. Between finishing up college, having a part-time job, and my dedicated study of Japanese and watching anime, spending entire days working on site updates seemed like more of a drag than fun. Also, AY’s old-school style had been steadily losing popularity to all the blogs, Wiki articles, and other newer, fancier sites that began cropping up. So eventually I figured that doing posts on my own blog would take up less time, and thus I would be able to work on them much more frequently, as opposed to once a month, like my updates on Anime Yume were. So rather than having one big update a month, I now have a bunch of blog posts a month.
Another reason for my decision to make an anime blog site is because of my yearning to express my thoughts and opinions about the anime that I’m so passionate about. Most of the extensively written pages on AnimeYume.com, though I enjoyed writing them, were pretty objective. My goal for Anime Yume is to give visitors access to a wide variety of anime information, images, media, and other resources. But this leaves little room for me to express my own opinions and recent thoughts about the anime I’m currently interested in. At one point I decided to start work on reviewing the anime that I have sections for on AnimeYume, but that idea never went through, since there were other parts of the site I wanted to work on. But now, I’ve finally decided to set extensive work on AnimeYume.com aside for a while in order to work on Mainichi Anime Yume, where nearly every post will be a direct expression of my thoughts and opinions about the anime we all know and love =) Things like image galleries, mp3s, information pages, etc., will be reserved for Anime Yume, while my own subjective reviews and essays will be here on MAY.
Will Mainichi Anime Yume affect my work on AnimeYume.com?
A little bit, but not completely. I’m going to be spending most of my time posting here on MAY, but AnimeYume.com WILL NOT be closing down. There’s no way I’m throwing away all those years of hard work! Anime Yume will remain open, and I will continue to work on it from time to time and add new content occasionally. But for now, you’ll probably want to check Mainichi Anime Yume first, since I’ll announce any major updates on the main site here as well. Again, there will be frequent posts here on MAY, and updates on AnimeYume.com once in a while.
