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It's categorized as Anime, Commentary, jason.
It's tagged over nine thousand things, including: . What a slut.
At least it only has 32 comments and 1,651 views.
(This would have been a far more interesting panel topic than “blogging and anime popularity.” Also, my new poll is hilarious.)
This will be an examination of various “styles,” “genres,” or “disciplines,” if you will, in anime blogging.
The Jason Miao School of Fanboyism
Defining characteristics: abundance of /a/ memes in posts. Invents own quazi-memes for propagation amongst innocent readers. Misinterprets anime and squees over said misinterpretation. Tends to make posts about english language anime blogging community, while refusing to partake in said community. Fanboys over shit.
Assorted subscribers: Jason Miao, lolikitsune
The Jeff Lawson School of Fanboyism
Defining characteristics: Fanboys over shit, but is extremely courteous to others in the process. Members of this school are the last proponents of civility on the internet. Also enjoys good discourse.
Assorted subscribers: Jeff, Shirukii
The Stripey School of Siscon
Defining characteristics: enjoys pretty things. And little sister characters. Blogging persona defined by fetish.
Assorted subscribers: Stripey, Yuribou, the silent majority
The Lovely Kitsune School of Youth Appreciation
Defining characteristics: gag posts, preaches Ichigo Mashimaro and Maria-sama ga Miteru, bashes shit anime. (the most entertaining school of anime blogging)
Assorted subscribers: Lovely Kitsune, lolikitsune
The Impz School of Delegation
Defining characteristics: ambitious. Tries to get lots of people to post on site in order to increase posts, readership, popularity, etc. Tries to get one or more post out per day. Worries about stats, page hits, etc. Generally too concerned with appearances to kick potential ass.
Assorted subscribers: Impz, the Kono~Sono staff
The Os School of Not Blogging
Defining characteristics: doesn’t post while bitching about other people not posting. Fix it yourself, lamer.
Assorted subscribers: Os
The Scott Frye School of Not Blogging
Defining characteristics: doesn’t post. Or rather, posts, but nothing of meaning or value.
Assorted subscribers: Scott Frye, lolikitsune
The JP Meyer School of Intelligence
Defining characteristics: valuable posts. Concerned with community, stats, AND quality.
Assorted subscribers: JP Meyer, Michael, Owen S (when he’s not trying to be a gangster)
There might be more. And I didn’t place all the bloggers because that’s not really the point. Basically, the Japanese anime bloggers are better than us, Japan is superior, GRAPHS, etc. etc.
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I have something you can add to my style of blogging. It’s called being lazy and writing sucks.
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Also, I think I heard not too long ago that Japan has more blogs than anyone else. The English bloggers is so far behind.
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Aww I feel left out
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Interesting set of divisions there. :P
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Hinano, you probably subscribe to Lawsonism. Except that you bash things from time to time. But really, when you bash things, it’s more like flowers and butterflies popping up everywhere because you’re female.
Scott… I kid because I care.
Replylolikitsune — 5/21/07 @ 4:12 pm | #Link
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I know you kid and its good to get this criticism from time to time. And I enjoyed this post. It made me laugh at myself. It’s too true.
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your blog sucks
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>>The JP Meyer School of Intelligence
Defining characteristics: valuable posts. Concerned with community, stats, AND quality.
Assorted subscribers: JP Meyer, Michael, Owen S (when he’s not trying to be a gangster)Something about one of those subscribers amuses me.
Replymeganeshounen — 5/21/07 @ 10:01 pm | #Link
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Two out of those three make me piss myself out of laughter. I’m not sure which you’re talking about.
Replylolikitsune — 5/21/07 @ 10:06 pm | #Link
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>>Fanboys over shit.
>>bashes shit anime.
>>posts, but nothing of meaning or value.Are you trying to be paradoxical here, or do the first two cancel each other out, resulting in your posts being meaningless and valueless? Otherwise, you lost me. Also, lol @ this post being self-referential in the vein of The Jason Miao School.
I hope I’m not one of the two, because God knows you might have a watersports fetish.
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You little shit, how dare you not mention me? This post sucks.
But seriously, the Impz style is quite efficient. I liken it to the corporate company compared to a sole proprietorship.
Jason Miao still blogs? That’s news.
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>>Are you trying to be paradoxical here, or do the first two cancel each other out, resulting in your posts being meaningless and valueless?
It’s called “being selective.”
>>Otherwise, you lost me. Also, lol @ this post being self-referential in the vein of The Jason Miao School.
That was *almost* the point.
Replylolikitsune — 5/22/07 @ 6:05 am | #Link
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That’s being retarded, not selective. Consider the following statements:
R1. lolikit fanboys over shit (anime).
R2. lolikit bashes shit anime.Therefore,
C: lolikit bashes the shit anime he fanboys over.
In other words, you’re tsundere for the anime you watch? Nutjob.
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>>That’s being retarded, not selective.
Well, I was referring to the manner in which I take some parts of certain schools and blend them together to form my style (or blogger’s voice, if you will), but if you think “retarded” is the proper term I guess I can’t argue.
And yes, I bash the shit anime that I fanboy over.
HAVE YOU NOT READ THIS BLOG?!
It’s like, 3% serious posts, 17% aniblogosphere posts, 10% pure flames, 10% subtle flames, and 60% mixed messages with regards to the quality of certain shows. Especially Haruhi.Nutjob?
Thx.Replylolikitsune — 5/22/07 @ 7:54 am | #Link
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Actually I only called you retarded because you haven’t bashed sola yet, and sola deserves a bashing Maebara Keichi style. And yes, that can be remedied quite easily.
Mixed messages = tsundere, no two ways about it. Just admit you’re tsundere 3/5ths of the time you post, and all will be fine. I guarantee it.
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Sola does not have the pure stupid that is Maebara Keiichi. It just doesn’t. It has its flaws, yes, I won’t argue that. But it’s so much incredibly better than Higurashi… you can barely compare the too.
Also, I’m not tsundere.
Seth came up for a term that describes my behavioral patterns- emodere.Replylolikitsune — 5/22/07 @ 1:20 pm | #Link
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I thought the term I came up with was ‘asshat’, but I am old and decrepit and have poor memory. You do manage to have the trolliest blog on the anisphere though, which would be more entertaining if more people flamed you in the comments threads. Btw…your blog sucks.
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I meant that sola deserves to be bashed, like, with a bat, Maebara Keiichi style. At least Higurashi frightened the heck out of me because it was meant to, sola frightens me when it isn’t supposed to.
Oh, and I think you need to revamp your style in order to invite more flames because people aren’t falling for the bait anymore.
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Owen, you were seriously frightened by Higurashi? I thought it was a comedy…
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Granted I stopped paying attention to what was happening after the first arc and slept through a few episodes, but lines like “Do you know what this is?” “N…no.” “It is a machine for stripping off fingernails,” always seemed good for a laugh.
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Owen, I’ll keep that in mind.
Apparently my common flamers/trolls are growing bored. I need to find something new to bash. Like Gurren Lagann (but seriously, Episode 7 of Lucky Star did enough of that).Replylolikitsune — 5/22/07 @ 11:17 pm | #Link
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Seth: It had good atmosphere, buildup, tension. Comparable to Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft IMO. Which reminds me, I need to finish watching it after my exams.
lolikit: *coughcoughsolacoughcough*
There isn’t anything else at the moment that deserves it.
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I guess my time as a grad student has just led to the kind of psychology that finds scenes of psychopaths stabbing their friends repeatedly guffawable.
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“But seriously, the Impz style is quite efficient. I liken it to the corporate company compared to a sole proprietorship.”
Win. Being a corporate company allows more division of work to come out. YAY! ^+^
This post wins: I have my name up there @_@;;;
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I’;m in the Os Frye School of Not Blogging Anime. And that’s the only way to go.
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Oh damn, I didn’t even notice I was mentioned.
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Slowpoke is dead.
Replylolikitsune — 5/28/07 @ 11:56 am | #Link
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Actually the defining traits of the Jeff Lawson school of fanboyism are to fanboy over Moe shows exclusively and to leave other genres the hell alone.
As for the Jason Miao School of Fanboyism your goal is to pick a position on a topic related to anime and see how fast and how many times you can flip-flop on it. Also knowing the history and facts of the topic you are discussing isn’t necessarily a requirement.
The Kaioshin Sama School of Anime theory by the way is to approach everything from a logical standpoint with injections of comedy and obscure references and analogies that will confuse everybody. It is without a doubt the most pretentious of all schools. The school also sometimes fanboys over Mecha and Lolis, but that’s only when its founder is off duty.
ReplyKaioshin Sama — 6/7/07 @ 10:51 am | #Link
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I guess I came from The Impz School of Delegation
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I also forgot one other thing about the Jason Miao school. You aren’t allowed to question him on his website otherwise your on the moderation list. So add unwillingness to consider alternate points of view and an irrational hatred of Sunrise to the school.
ReplyKaioshin Sama — 6/12/07 @ 12:11 am | #Link
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