Hiya all! Just so you know right away this isn’t a review, tis a rant on internal affairs and whatnot so if you’re really not interested in that, I would suggest reading instead Droid’s Desert Punk Review. Okay, so I’ve been brainstorming alot recently about what to do now that my life has been swamped with… stuff, which unfortunately leaves me only time to eat and KO on my bed. And I have come up with a brilliant solution (inspired by this weeks episode of Bakuman [season 3 ep 5]). To put it simply, ‘blog more efficiently’.

Okay that was a bit vague so ill explain in more detail. Normally when writing and maintaining stuff I would set aside an hour or two and sit, boot up my pc, compose myself, think of all the awesome stuff I saw or thought about this week. Choose one which I think will be interesting, try to remember how my thought pattern was at the time and as soon as the wave hits me, start writing as it comes to mind. The downside to this is that I need at least an hour of uninterrupted time to get something that doesn’t look completely horrible and lately that hour has been hard to come by.

The solution I came up with was this, I recently got myself a new phone (Samsung Galaxy Note II) and thought heyy!!! With all the time I spend during the day either on a bus, or waiting for one thing or the other, I could totally blog! So as of today I shall be changing the internal workings’ to accommodate that. The process will be as follows:

1. In the goal of being more mobile friendly those visiting from phones will see a nice clean mobile friendly layout :). (of course those using pc’s will see the usual site)
2. Revamped, mobile friendly admin [This is mostly for me as only my awesome authors and I have backend access.]
3. Will also do that much needed maintenance on InfinityAnime I’ve been putting off for ages. Will rewrite the entire site in python if I have to (damn spammers made me have to close down registration and whatnot).

While I am doing all this I will definitely not leave you all empty handed so every Monday Wednesday and Friday I shall be posting one of the many posts from The Droid (awesome writer) I have stashed in a folder somewhere. On Sundays I shall be writing about the progress done. And possibly at random intervals during the week if I’m not swamped with this blog’s spr.. autumn cleaning I shall write a post or two.

So yea, that’s the plan. If you read all that then… *references pic below*

Sometimes life can be such a lonely existence

By some miracle I woke up early today and thus have some time to write my response. But as the date has passed I won’t be tagging anyone else. For those who have no idea what i’m talking about you can check out Cely’s original post here.
Now the answers to the 5 questions.

1. What is it that lead you to become an aniblogger?
Thats an easy one, It was summer and I reeeeeally wanted something to do besides watch anime all day and sleep. So I decided to create a blog. And what better thing to blog about than my obsession?

2.  How many times can you recall where an anime or anime scene made you think “WTF”?
Hmmmmm, Currently I can only think of two instances. That would be at the ending of school days where those two crazy, gruesome murders happen and then seeing the girl at the end with Makoto’s head on the boat. The second would be Junjou Romantica, while it wasn’t as WTFesque as the first instance somehow I thought the show would simply be a romance anime but halfway through episode one I noticed….. OMG!! This is… this is… (go watch it to find out :P)… After pouring concentrated Hydrochloric acid on my eyes to get the image out I instantly dropped the show and live my life now forever scarred.

3.  If you could be an anime/manga character, who would it be?
Gin from Mushishi, somehow I can relate to him. Always by himself, travelling around helping others and the ability to see and resolve what other’s cannot. While at some point during the show you stop and think that he must live a very lonely life, I still found it captivating somehow.

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New to both anime and the blogging world, but not to writing, I decided to start things off I will make an “about me” blog just to introduce myself to everyone. I’m sort of a private person when it comes to the internet, but I want to give you all some insight.

I’m in college, currently getting a liberal arts degree, but next fall I’m going to be an English major with a creative writing focus.

I love anything in the realm of speculative fiction. This includes books, movies, television, anime, comic books, manga, and writing. Also includes urban fantasy, epic fantasy, science fiction…well, you get the idea. Some specifics I love are The Mortal Instruments book series by Cassandra Clare, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Legend of Zelda video games, and Harry Potter.

Favorite anime: Code Geass and its sequel, R2. Death Note is a close runner up.

So what got me into anime? Good question. I always loved the artwork. Anime characters, even the “normal” ones, have such a magical, mystical appeal to them and I just think they are beautiful. As a kid I watched, you guessed it, Pokemon, and you, guessed it, Dragon Ball Z. Pokemon was my religion, the handbook I owned being my bible. After that phase finally passed I started watching Dragon Ball Z…and I was addicted. I hadn’t even realized at the time that those shows were anime, I was just a kid watching her favorite TV series. Read the rest of this entry →

New Vs Old Theme

Hey there everyone, I’ve been pretty busy recently but don’t for a second think i have forgotten you all. I have been considering changing this theme to another, darker one which you can see if you click the “Try Our New Look” link on the right. After you try it out and return back here (by closing the bar what will pop up at the bottom of the page) please vote in the poll on the right, or if you like neither please tell me why in the comments below :) . Your Feedback will be much appreciated.

Thanks your time!!  Click here to view this page with the new theme

(Note: Please bear in mind that the sidebar widgets will not be ported to new theme until decision has been made)