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.
What kind of anime blog is Mainichi Anime Yume?
In order to get an idea of the kinds 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 shonen series like Inuyasha, Naruto, and One Piece, “kiddy” shows like Digimon and Pokemon (I’m a big fan of the Pokemon games), mecha series like Evangelion, Eureka 7, and Code Geass, shojo series like Fruits Basket and Kimi ni Todoke, “dark” series like Noir, Death Note, and Kara no Kyoukai, oldies but goodies like Cardcaptor Sakura and Slayers, fan favorites like Lucky Star, K-ON!, Haruhi…and pretty much all others in between. For each new season of anime, I watch a handful of currently airing shows from different genres, and I occasionally go back and watch old shows I’ve never seen before, too. Since my interest in anime is so various, I’m hoping that the posts here on MAY will appeal to a great variety of fans.
I know most anime blogs have one or more specific focuses, such as speedy anime news, images and screencaps, episode-by-episode reviews, 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. I mostly focus on anime reviews of series I recently finished watching and essays or ramblings about anime fandom in general, with other things in between. Here’s a quick rundown of 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, I’ll write about my initial impressions of it here
-Anime Lists: occasionally I like to make posts listing my favorites in certain anime aspects, i.e., favorite characters, series of the year, favorite studios, etc, or other lists about anime
-Anime News: I don’t do news post that often but 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 have the patience to write episode-by-episode reviews of every series I’m currently watching. So I write reviews of anime titles in general, usually soon after I’ve watched the entire series. Reviews of anime movies are here as well. Be warned, my reviews tend to be spoiler filled
-Essays and Ramblings: my more extensive and analytical posts about topics related to anime fandom
-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 since mid-2007 so I tend to write a lot of posts about 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 was 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 chapters 482 to 520. Other Inuyasha-related posts can also be found in this section
-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: posts that don’t fit into the other categories
-Moments in Anime: my participation in the annual “Moments in Anime” project
-Pokemon: Pokemon is what got me interested in anime to begin with and it’s been my favorite video game series since then. All Pokemon-related posts will be here
-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?
It started with my main site, AnimeYume.com. I began work on AnimeYume.com way back in the summer of 2002. Since then, I’ve received over 900,000 hits and great feedback. Once the rise of blog sites began to take place around the mid-2000s, 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 more advanced, 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 at least a few posts every week.
Another reason for my decision to make an anime blog 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 thoughts about the anime I’m currently interested in. Thus, I 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 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?
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.
