Furu Anime Panikku

Yesterday’s post was FAP’s 200th post. Technically, it should not exactly be counted as 200 posts, considering some short crappy posts with to link to anime I wrote when I was hosted back on wordpress, but no matter.

Anyway, since this post is the first to pass the 200 mark, I decided I should post on something I have never touched on before. All this while, I have been writing posts that were related to anime. Today, I will be posting about the people who watch anime and post about it. That’s right, the anime blogsphere, or more like some of the local blogs which I frequent. If I did both local and non-local blogs, this post would probably see no end.

The girls of Genshiken shall grace this post

Here goes.

Anime Desho Desho : RIP, it was great while it lasted. ADD’s murderer? Real life, and maybe laziness.I would gladly welcome ADD’s revival, but it doesn’t seem to be happening anytime soon.

RIUVA : The slowdown of posts were getting more and more obvious ever since RIUVA evolved from a solo quest into a party. Again, the culprit behind this is probably real life. The recruitment of additional party members was probably for the better, or we would probably be seeing weekly updates. Currently, the only readable posts are those with normal titles, or titles beginning with [LianYL], but those posts are not as frequent as they used to be. For the past few months, BRStick and the occasional decent post by Tripeman himself are the lifeline of RIUVA. Sadly, both of these are slowing down. Noooo!!!!

The Ramblings of Darkmirage : At least he still updates. Judging from the post pattern, it seems that for every Gundam 00 episode summary posted, the next would be a normal post. This roughly amounts to about 2-3 posts per week. At least the episodic posts are unlike those of a typical summary post. Darkmirage’s episodic posts are actually one of the few that I actually enjoy reading. Man, I wished he would update more, but then again, who am I to say this?

Moeside : Photos and photos, which is a good thing. I suck at photography, so I like figurine review and cosplay pictures. Windbell does them rather well. Pictures of Moe girls ain’t all that bad either too.

bj0rn : Needs to update moar!!!

zeNIME : No longer any anime blog, it seems. Anime must suck that badly for it to evolve into a music blog.

THAT anime blog : This shouldn’t exactly qualify as a local anime blog, but what the heck, I shall just take it as it is, since Impz posts there. I know episodic reviews have been the bread and butter of THAT, so I only read when there are posts of non episodic reviews.

The Fool’s Progress : zer0’s ( now known as 0ne) the Otaku Grand Uncle, so he writes about stuff which other anime blogs wouldn’t even dream of. I read his blog every time a new post arrives, but unfortunately, I have this problem named “Commenter’s block”.

Please don’t get the impression that I only visit these few blogs. This is only a mere fraction of the blogs I read. I’m just plain lazy when it comes to listing all the blogs out.

On a whole, the current situation the anime blogsphere faces is overpopulation. There are simply too many blogs out that, with majority posting about anime episode, as well as some blogs reposting what others have posted. It has come to the state where standing out of an anime blog from another difficult, which is probably what causes the premature death of some blogs. It’s sad to see a blog die out, especially if you have been a reader of it for quite some time.

I am no distinguished animeblogger myself, but hey, anime blogging is all about having fun and writing about what you have a passion in, and your readers having the same fun reading your posts.

For some time in the anime blogsphere, it has been a dry season but hopefully, rain starts pouring soon.