Being an active anime fan for many years, I’ve had quite a few interesting things happen to me, whether they were funny, frustrating, or just plain weird. Today I’ll be sharing a handful of my most memorable anime anecdotes…
My anime collection
April 25, 2011 by 16 Comments
In past posts, I’ve taken photos of my anime-covered room and highlighted the gems of my anime collection. But I haven’t yet talked about my actual collection of anime DVDs. Despite being into anime for eleven years now, I haven’t accumulated all that many series on DVD, mostly due to lack of funds for many years and only wanting to buy titles I especially like. Since a list of my anime video library isn’t too long for a post, and since a lot of my DVDs have a story behind them, I felt like giving them some attention…
Nostalgia: remembering my “former” anime favorites
April 21, 2011 by 13 Comments
It’s to be expected that our favorite anime titles and characters change as we discover new series over the years. For those of us who have been into anime for at least a few years, we ourselves often change as people and thus our tastes in anime change too. So today I’m going to be looking back at my “former” favorite anime and characters – ones that I used to love during my early years of fandom (no later than 2004) and seeing how they compare to my current tastes…
What are the most “least known” anime that you’ve ever watched?
April 8, 2011 by 51 Comments
Ever since the flourishing of anime online in the past five or so years, which allows fans around the world to follow Japan’s otakudom in real time and know every single anime that comes out each season, it’s hard to find anime nowadays that no one is watching or discussing. I’m one who usually follows all the popular and most discussed series. I know some fans watch obscure, unpopular titles all the time, but for me, I haven’t seen many old or niche anime so the number of little known titles I have under my belt is virtually nil. However, there are a handful of anime that I’ve watched during my 11+ years as a fan that I’ve hardly seen anyone mention. So today, I’ll be giving brief shout-outs to five of the most “least known” anime that I’ve watched…
My 10 favorite seiyuu
March 23, 2011 by 19 Comments
I recently noticed that I haven’t talked much about seiyuu on my blog even though they’re an important part of the anime industry. When it comes to people like singers and voice actors, I guess I’m the type of person who could love their work but not look into any further info about them other than that. I doubt I could even recognize any of my favorite seiyuu by looks, which makes me feel a bit ashamed (I think I’m just not good at distinguishing Asian faces 0_o) So today I’m going to focus this post on seiyuu and count down my top 10 favorites…
How does your taste in anime compare to the average fan?
March 14, 2011 by 12 Comments
I got this interesting idea via digitalboy’s recent post about comparing my tastes in anime to the tastes of the average (English-speaking) fan. MyAnimeList.net (MAL) is a great site to see the overall tastes of such fans, since it has thousands of users from different states/countries with varying tastes in anime. So I decided to see how my favorites rank among MAL’s general populace…
Making a list of favorite anime openings
March 9, 2011 by 14 Comments
I’ve made a lot of anime favorites lists over the years, but I was recently reminded that I have yet to make a list of favorite openings, a list that many bloggers have already done. Although there’s a reason for why I’ve been avoiding such a list, I finally managed to come up with a top 10…
Searching for good anime quotes
February 25, 2011 by 31 Comments
ビバップ by アカ
I’ve been a fan of quotes for many years. I regularly visit sites like The Quote Garden and The Quotations Page, and often take note of quotes I like in things that I read. Unfortunately, I’m not very good at remembering anime quotes and haven’t been keeping track of my favorites other than in my head. However, the site Anime Quotes has a good amount of my favorites…
My anime firsts
February 22, 2011 by 36 Comments
二つしかなくても。 by たいよー
Being an anime fan for over ten years now, I’ve gone through quite a lot of firsts. Since anime is such a complex hobby, encompassing many different branches of fandom, there are a lot of potential firsts besides just “first anime.” So today I’ll be listing as many of those firsts as I can think of…
Anime powers I would like to have
January 14, 2011 by 30 Comments
I’m sure this is something we’ve all given thought to at some point during our fandom. I was inspired by a post from Glo about anime powers I would like to have, and have since come up with a list…