My first post of 2008! I hope the new year is off to a good start for you all ^_^ 2007 has been a great year for anime both in Japan and the US so hopefully 2008 will be too. Unfortunately, although I’ll still watch as many new 2008 series’ as I can, I’ll have to put my sites back on hiatus soon once my classes start. But I should have time in the summer to do some site work and you can still check the About the Blogger page to see what anime I’m currently watching. But for most of the year there won’t be much activity here on the blog or the main site. Sorry about that, but I’m sure those of you who are or have been swamped with work and/or school know how it is =/ More details about my sites’ return to hiatus later, onto what’s new on Anime Yume…
Major image update! (plus more site news)
Off on a tentative hiatus…
Yes, I’m away but I’ll be back! Read on to find out what and why…
Mainichi Anime Yume’s 1st year anniversary!
Wow, I can’t believe I’ve managed to keep up this blog for a year now! ^_^ Even though I’ve been working on my main AnimeYume.com site for over 5 years, I’ve come to realize how different working on a blog site is. Within the year, I’ve written 126 posts and I’ve received over 700 comments and over 23,000 hits. It still pales in comparison to the over 800,000 hits the main site has received, but considering I’ve only had time to post on the blog about once or twice a week, I guess that’s still pretty good results =) I’ve really enjoyed writing all the anime reviews, rants, etc., posts here on the blog…they’ve been a nice change from the objective and fairly structured writing I do on the main AnimeYume site. The reason I started MAY back in the fall of last year was because my life had become so busy and I was unable to keep up with big updates on the main site. But unfortunately, my life has become even busier than before, so much in fact, I may have to put both sites on a temporary hiatus. More about that on the next post…
AnimeYume.com’s 2nd Image Contest! (winners receive free scans from AnimePaper.net)
I’ve only held one other image contest besides this one, which was about a year ago back in summer 2006. But now that I finally have some much-needed vacation time, I decided to have a second one. The main reason why I’m having AnimeYume’s 2nd image contest (same reason for why I held the first one actually) is because I’m tired of looking at the same old splash and homepage banners, and since I lack the computer programs (like Photoshop) to make nice site banners myself, why not let my visitors make these images for me and reward the ones that do the best job? =) I’m making this contest better than the first one by having more lenient rules and offering better prizes.
Anyway, you can find out all the rules and details about the contest here. My appreciation goes out to everyone who participates ^^ I look forward to seeing your entries!
New anime sections!
Well, I’m back with two new anime sections on the main AnimeYume.com site. I’ve literally spent all of the past couple of days working on them but I think they came out pretty good ^^ So check out the new Death Note and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya sections! (BTW, about the Haruhi section, I made an html version of the timeline I posted a while ago, and also updated it with some images). I’m really not sure if I’ll have time for more anime sections anytime soon but maybe.
Anyway, these past few posts here on the blog haven’t been very “blog-ish” (just stuff about the main site and my own personal life) so I really want to get back on track with good blog posts, and also catch up with my Inuyasha chapter reviews and other stuff. But I also need to catch up on my Japanese studies and my backlog of anime to watch…::sigh:: even on vacation there’s not enough time to do all the stuff you gotta do =P But regardless I’ll definitely be back here on the blog soon!
Inuyasha manga coverage on MAY
I’ve been thinking about it since I started this blog a little over a month ago, and I’ve finally decided that I’m going to do weekly reviews of the Inuyasha manga. First of all, it’s been my favorite series for a few years now, and it’s one of the only manga series’ I’m continually reading(I only have time for so much, and anime usually takes priority over manga for me =P) Also, I don’t hear anyone on Anime Nano(which MAY recently got listed on ^^) talk about it, even though it’s still ongoing like Bleach and Naruto. So I figured, why not? It’ll be something unique for my blog and since manga chapters are way shorter than episodes, my reviews will be short and easy to keep up. I know it’s kind of late to start reviewing it since the series is supposedly going to end soon, but better late than never I guess, and right in time for the 10th anniversary chapter too ^_^ I’m very interested to see how these final chapters will go =) Anyway, I’m going to use this post as an introduction to my Inuyasha manga coverage, and then follow up with an acutal review of the latest chapter 482.
Mikomicon coverage!
My coverage and some photos of the anime convention Mikomicon is up on the main site! ^_^ Check it out here. Enjoy!
Taking care of blog business!
Well, it’s been about two weeks since I started work here on MAY. And I’m happy to report that I’m satisfied with how things are going.
Welcome to Mainichi Anime Yume!
ようこそ、毎日アニメ夢へ!(Welcome to Mainichi Anime Yume!) My work on this blog site has now been officially announced on my main site, AnimeYume.com. I hope those of you visiting from AnimeYume will enjoy Mainichi Anime Yume as well. As you can see, I already have a few posts, so please take a look at them and leave some comments ^^ They should give you a pretty good idea of the kind of posts I’ll be doing. And if this is your first time visiting, please take a look at the “About Mainichi Anime Yume” page. That page pretty much explains everything I want to say about starting my new anime blog ^_^
New anime OPs & EDs
The new anime openings and endings come all at once don’t they ^_^ I posted the newest openings and endings for Bleach, Naruto, Digimon Savers, and the new Pokemon Diamond and Pearl series(some are AVI files, some are YouTube videos.) And I’ve gotta say, I’m pleased with all of them…