This post is obviously meant to be inflammatory from the title! I mean, there could be no other reason for using “arrogance”, could there? This post also obviously refers to every fansubber out there and not a select few who are concerned. Please keep that in mind as you read this post, and before you proceed to comment. Take every word I say out of context. It’s not like I tend to be sarcastic on the internet or anything, nope.

I may not agree with what you say, but I�ll defend to the death my right to drill it

Here are some spoilers: Your blog dies in Wordpress 2.3. Or at the very least goes into sudden cardiac arrest, requiring a mouth-to-mouth and a frantic trip to the ER for that quadruple-bypass you’ve been putting off. You might even need to shut down for a couple of days while it lies comatose, like I unwittingly had the foresight to do while upgrading.

Let me tell you, however, that the upgrade, amidst all that blood, sweat, tears, and missing out on reading (and writing) Autumn posts was worth it. I have seen the future of anime blogging, and it is Tags. Spelled with a capital letter. Tags. With bold. Tags. You get the idea. While this might seem like a small matter to some of you who have been using categories for your anime series for ages, the benefits of using Tags were immediately obvious to me.

what goes through my mind everytime I see Gensokyoans(sp) using computers isn’t “oh, they’re using them”, but “why do they suck so much”, since their scope of powers are so hax, you’d think they’d be able to get better rigs

Just a bit of link blogging before I return to the normal schedule (wait, what schedule?). I’d like to think that four whole days away from the PC at camp did my hands good, but a prolonged bout of instant messaging proved otherwise. I can live with the pain, though, seeing how it serves as a good reminder to take frequent breaks and all. Workrave’s helped a lot, too.

It’s always a joy to discover new anime blogs worth your time and effort to read. To my chagrin, ever since I started proactively looking for blogs with both quantity and quality, I’m quite embarrassed to note that my daily reading efforts have been stunted somewhat. Gone are the days of being able to skim through the list of daily entries effortlessly before breakfast, and I have these blogs to blame for adding to my “burden”, although I’m not in the least morose about it.

the concept of relevant/related pictures in my posts are practically unheard of, I know, but in the picture Haruhi’s saying “oh! this is a unique site…”

Numerous spoilers after the cut.

You knew this was coming. Come on. Come on. Only the weak chicken out after a few episodes of “boring” training. I don’t know, maybe the Time-Space Administration Bureau could have invented something called the Amplifying Rapid Growth Hormone during the 10 year timeskip, thus enabling the possibility of an epic battle like Nanoha A’s in the second episode?! The first episode, obviously, would have our four young ones being injected with said ARGH.

It would’ve been lame, though, to see battle after battle at the beginning without any reason to care for the characters’ beam spam and transformation scenes. As a result of the especially long and, according to some quarters, difficult episodes where NOTHING HAPPENS, people began to whine. The only other feasible option would have to be putting the training scenes in flashbacks during the battles, but who wants to see Teana thinking about the time she got her ass kicked by Nanoha for fudging up a battle session right in the middle of war when you can see it first-hand?

I know I wouldn’t. As a result of all that getting to know the new cast during the 10-odd episodes so far, the few battles so far have been gripping. It says something when you cheer silently or burst into loud exclamations at what’s happening on-screen, not because you’re being noisy, but because you care about the characters and what might or might not happen to them. This is also why the battles in Harry Potter 7 were the best ever — it wasn’t so much the writing as it was what was at stake. Anyone could die and faced a very real possibility of being snuffed out as you turned the page.

I’m pleased to officially announce the relaunching of Cruel Angel Theses ?, henceforth known as Cruel Angel Theses ? (spell it that way in your blogroll if possible, because the ? is important). As for the new place, well, what can I say? The ever indomitable Randall was offering free hosting. I liked the way he went about things, he liked my blog, we e-mailed each other, and…

you know what they say about birds of a feather

So I’ve noticed that the anime blogosphere is as incestuous as a chapter in COMIC LO. Everyone links to the same old same old, and I’m guessing you guys haven’t updated your blogrolls in ages, or can’t be arsed to get out there and look for new things to read. Which is fine and dandy with me, since I’m about to showcase a few blogs that, shockingly enough, are actually fit for the good old feedreader.

Links to follow. If you’ve got any blogs of special note that you feel I should be reading, too, don’t hesitate to link to them in the comments. I’d like to think my taste is pretty diverse, about 50 blogs in the anime folder and counting. Check my Links page above and this post before you get about to linking anything, though, and try not to overdo the linking too much, since Akismet is funny about stuff like that.

Seeing how Impz’s post made him sound like he had cancer (to ease the pain of not being able to finish the Spring season he wanted to spend his last days writing editorials), I wanted to make a post painting him as a tragic victim, torn between his desire to live and his desire to drool over moe Konata.

replace America with Singapore, and Cirno with Drmchsr0, etc

But he linked to Riuva’s post so he ruined everything. The bastard. My condolences to the neighbours down south, things will be a lot more dull around here without you guys. Suppose there’s always #animeblogger, but meh. Best wishes to everyone.

Just a short update on blog-related matters, feel free to skip this if you can’t be bothered. No, the title isn’t a reference to Evangelion, it’s actually Hideaki Anno referencing Pippa Passes, all two lines of it.

Phew, what a ride. 30 days, 24 posts, and 141 comments later (1/3rd of those mine), I don’t feel as tired as I think I should be, to say nothing of how I’ve barely scratched the surface of what I’ve been planning on writing since the conception of this blog. But I’m not complaining. Also added an FAQ page for posterity, I hope you like it.

it’s the small things that matter.

Now to wait for Hung to add me to AnimeNano. Hopefully 9rules opens up submissions in the next couple of months. 4,000+ hits was twice what I projected originally, and my gratitude knows no bounds. It’s been great to hear from you guys in the comments, because when I get none I’m always wonder if I’m doing it wrong (btw, jaalin, if you still read this, say something!). Here’s to 10,000, and here’s to you!

Since Cruel Angel Theses’ one month anniversary is but two days away, I thought I’d take a quick recap on the posts I do and come up with some insight as to how or why I say the things I do, be it critique, reviews, or opinions — also, studying has been tiring (insert Konata face here) for someone who doesn’t like/isn’t really used to slogging away at books, so to take things off my mind I thought what I’d do was, I’d offer a bit of meta-critique, as it were.

First of all, though, allow me to point you to this well-written post from The Anime Blog. Basically what Rachel proposes, in the article, is the coining of two new terms that might help explain the differences anime fans the world over have with regards to taste.

So I’ve been stuck with watching Code Geass since yesterday morning. After the first episode I was totally convinced that this was Gundam + Death Note, and while I’m struck aghast by how much awesome is concentrated in every episode, I also regret not watching this during its run. Not that you’ll find me complaining though — Shinsen Subs are on top of their league as usual with impeccable translations and quality raws, so it’s not like I missed out on a lot.

On a more unpleasant note, there’s exactly two weeks to my first A-Levels paper (Thinking Skills), and I thought I’d take this time to type out an announcement for it. Expect updates to drop to something like once every two, three days. Four if I can’t finish revising the damn text on time.

It’s been exactly a week since I started Cruel Angel Theses, and I thought I’d take this time to acknowledge my readers. Because while 500 hits in 7 days won’t break new blog records any time soon, this is way beyond what I imagined, and I’m definitely happy at the results given the effort I’ve put in this week. That’s a projected 2,000 hits in the next 3 weeks assuming my readership doesn’t increase or decrease — although I’m pretty sure it will given the overwhelming support I’ve received so far. Thank you.

You gonna get loved tenderly.