we're finally notdotq anymore

In the “better late than never category,” I started anime blogging on my old livejournal four years ago May. This officially makes me as pro as Jason Miao, and should elicit throngs of fanboys screeching “four more years! four more years!”

I would do a retrospective like lelangir did, but it wouldn’t be too interesting—every few points would be interspersed with “then lolikit gave up aniblogging in an emo rage fit, and closed down notdotq for five months.” Not that I ever stayed away for long, but…

… I do have a habit for, shall we call them, disappearances.

Instead of a retrospective, let’s do a highlights, and without dates, because I care more about the feelings than I do the historical accuracies:

- after one year of animeblogging, notdotq is born on wordpress.com, one of the handful of “first” anime blogs to use wordpress.com, along with jp meyer’s fairy tale of love and courage.

- Jason Miao promises to put notdotq on Blogsuki.

- Jason Miao removes newcomer RIUVA from Blogsuki, refuses to put notdotq on.

- Various bedraggled anibloggers realize that Jason is a cancer.

- Hung builds AnimeNaNo, invites Jason Miao.

- I start spreading my name by creating and maintaining the AnimeNaNo IRC channel. The community is thriving. Mr. Pippers is still an aniblogger.

- Jason still doesn’t join AnimeNaNo.

- So there are no killer lolis in Higurashi, mmmkay?

- Jason says that Japanese anibloggers are better than English-speaking anibloggers. Reason: graphs.

- Beginning of holy anti-Jason crusade.

- Oh by the way Haruhi sucks balls.

- I go to France, where I finish Fate/Stay-night and die a premature death due to suck. While in France, AnimeNaNo takes off like a flock of majestic birds, Japes becomes my friend, and Haruhi 12 blows me away.

- Hung, Japes, and Hinano–later, Japes’ girlfriend, now, his wife–start the AnimeNaNo podcast. Pips and I parody: podcast.dotq.org.

- wait, this is turning into a chronological recounting. SHIT.

Okay. Deep breath.

Here are my top ten moments in animeblogging.

#10. The founding of AnimeNaNo. Shit was so cash.

#9. Blogging Kyoushiro to Towa no Sora, Sola, and Aria the Origination with Shirukii.

#8. That time a newbie added me to her initial blogroll along with the big names–Jason, Jeff, Japes, Omo, etc.

#7. Baka-Raptor informed me that I was the king of trolls. (Or maybe it was ‘trolling king,’ either way.)

#6. Konoe and I enjoy many philosophical discourses over AIM, I publish these discourses (“on disagreement,” etc.), ghostlightning realizes that love needs explanation just the same as hate, various anibloggers begin defending their stances more rigorously, “lolikitean” invented.

#5. Kyousora.com is registered and built. My first exercise in hilarious satirical porn stories, perhaps the genesis of my visual novel project.

#4. Graphs. So fucking many of them. Everywhere. All the fucking time.

#3. When Jason stopped posting for three months. Hell yes. This was also when lots of people (ghostlightning, lolikappa, lelangir) were posting on notdotq. I was being extremely productive and the ’sphere was looking happy.

#2. Miao on My Mind.

#1. So, CCY-senpai, I herd u were maiking a gaem?

I’m going to stop the nostalgia train here because I’m not being very coherent or classy. This was really just a poor excuse to post more.

Love and peace and rock my song,
-Dr. lolikitsune

(Updated.)

There were like, five panty shots in Hatsukoi Limited Episode 1. I’ve seen panties maybe twice in my life

As you can see, the sky is the limited.

I tremble at the prospects.

On a more serious note, more, please? I’m interested in what’ll happen when Ayumi finds out that no, just because Misao’s opponents were cowardly, he is not necessarily a Good Guy. It is far more likely that both he and his opponents are just a bunch of dogs who are in need of a good euthanasia. She will then be caught between three unpleasant decisions: running away with Misao, having an abortion, and raising the kid on her own.

What?

She’s not pregnant?

Really?

I do believe that Misao fits the mold put forth by Full Metal Panic’s Kaname Chidori: “it feels like I’ll get pregnant just being around these guys.” Sure, he’s not a rugby player, but he could be a pretty balling one.

Anyway. The show’s most serious failing is the same as that which bewitched Ichigo 100%’s anime adaptation cannibalization: voices. I haven’t forgotten how disgusting Junpei sounded, and I’ll never forget how disgusting Ayumi &c. sound. It’s just pain, brothers. Just pain.

And, as you all know, I thrive on pain (look at MAL for a confirm on that one).

*eagerly acquires the second episode*

P.S. Tangential: when do we get a Pretty Face anime?

Update: Episode 2 was a disaster; Kusuda is terrible.

At long last, a third entry in the Index.

Yet these hands will never know KIRA~☆

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I’m grateful to Baka-Raptor. If it weren’t for him, I’d probably be a lowly satire blogger somewhere. Instead, I’m here, bringing you guys serious, straight-faced episodic anime blogging. So… please listen to my song. . . tribute.

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This is the second installment in a running feature intended to improve my readers’ sex lives. And business lives. And self-worth. And lots of other things, too. My vocabulary is like crystal meth in a can. My vocabulary is like crystal meth. My vocabulary is crystal meth. Sit back, repeat after me, and then repeat a second time—out loud, to your mothers. They’ll want your babies.

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I referred to THAT’s amazingly helpful resource and compiled a list of all the anime I will try to watch come October. » Continue reading this…