Impz has pretty much said everything I want to say about the comments, so I won’t answer each comment individually.

Thank you all for reading and taking the time to reply.

I don’t do episode summaries either, so this is something that I wrote coming from a reader’s perspective - I prefer writing series reviews since they’re far less time consuming.

and even if I want to read a summary about a particular eps that I’m dieing to get my hand on, I click on the link from animesuki to their blog XD

@Ruki: That is something I have told you before on the fact that summaries should only be detailed if you are ahead of the english sub, if only to flesh out the story and facilitate communication. As many people are often keen to spoil themselves by knowing roughly what happens ahead of time, it is always good to have detailed summaries when you are doing raws or subs that are non-english in nature.

@tsubaki: Yes, Amen to that dude. If we all have to sound intelligent, 90% of us will be eliminated.

@Wrex: Agreed with what you said since that’s what I do. I think Lupus did mean what you said but the point was not pushed forth too clearly in his argument.

@Shadro: In my opinion, almost everyone who has a sense of grammar (well, you don’t really need a sense of grammar but no one understands you then) has the ability to do summaries. I mean, anyone who has a basic grasp of English will be able to do that, so why do they need to go to your blog when there is randomc and memento or wrex who are raw bloggers?

@Hasselich: Yes sire, you said all that is great about summary entry. To me, a good summary entry not only summaries the episode well but deciphers the series in terms of plot in the thoughts section. To me, it is the importance in breaking down the story, personalizing it with what you think about a series, plot twists, speculation and all that moral implications in it. I always try to do that if I can in my reviews, though I am hardly good as yet. Still, I am improving and I agree wholeheartedly on your comments and that will be a step of faith to move on from merely summarizing to providing a view of point unique.

@Karura: Ironically, I often have too much to say for each episode but I got lazy to edit to reduce length. Yes, I am a very long winded person as you can tell from the replies of my comments.

@Vissione: I generally do less series reviews since I do try to keep this place active as much as I can. Also, when I do batch reviews, I believed in not spoiling too much, which is my style. A batch review to me is not only for others to read the overall view, but also to absorb the reader into being interested to watch it. That, to me, is one of the purposes that bloggers often forget. They write primarily for fun, secondarily for traffic but also sometimes to make others interested in the anime they like.

@13sugars: Yes, my lady. You speak one point in which there are more and more anime blogs that are churning out good quality. I often find myself moving around to see how they write and how I can improvise their style and format in my own writing. I personally know that my weakness is in humor, so I often check out various blogs, both new and old to absorb ideas and see how it will work.

The Harem joke is by me of course, since Lupus is too serious with this. Yes, you are in fact in my harem!!!! Just joking with that but I often sing praises of my commentors with alkanphel…and his dark tower.

@Skane: Arr, yes comment feed. I never really understood much of comment feed and I will ask my site admin about it. I realize that it can be pretty cool to have that. …hmmm, now to stalk my admin.

Cheers.

I think I’m the only blogger that watches an anime all the way to the end and reviews it cleverly without spoiling it. There’s lots of spoilers out there and it irks me. I seem to get a lot of feedback from my reviews about people getting interested in a show because of one of my reviews and ultimately having similar opinions after watching it. This tells me I’m doing an excellent job promoting the anime I like and slowing producing more intelligent fans for more intelligent anime.

My goal is to gather together all of what I consider “good” anime, both new and old, in one place. I want to promote the buying of quality anime for collection to help the industry overseas. Most of the professional sites that do anime reviews and are affiliated with stores selling anime do not review anime harshly enough to be worthwhile. Every single review has something positive to say, and there is little comparison with other anime that may have done it better. They also focus on packaging, font, extras, and encode quality while completely forgetting to describe the story and the feel you get while watching the anime. I think my reviews are much more informative and can help pique your interest with a consistent quality assurance due to my ranking system. Instead of arbitrary scores, you can consider the rank and if you liked something on my reviews list… more than likely any other anime with that same rank have the same quality. I measure anime by feel — essentially snap judgment. When an anime consistently delivers a high threshold of emotional thrust, penetration, focus, intelligence, or eloquence to me, the viewer, it triggers various levels of sensations I use to measure the rank. The more I feel and enjoy, the higher the rank. I use the highest rank to separate the really good anime and the really good successful and original shows that basically define the higher echelons of presence and profound thought in anime storytelling.

I take the industry seriously, thus I take the anime that I watch seriously. Instead of magical girl show #29 or eva rip-off #35, I try to blog about different anime that are good and/or the best in their particular genre. You could say some blogs are for the latest; I’d like to think my blog is for the greatest.

I also like to change the pace by blogging about anime I don’t like and give reasons… even if it’s flame-biat. In essence I’m carving a bias for my blog that attracts a like-minded readership that no other blog can imitate. My goal isn’t just traffic itself, but the quality of the traffic. If the people reading my blog like what I like we can continue to search for more and better quality anime.

In the end though, my blog is really for me and someone very special to me. It’s a record of what I’ve watched and a measurement of how much I liked it; my recommendations list basically. Those that agree with my tastes can just hop on and those who don’t can stay away. I’ve no time to deal with fanboy wars in an industry being killed by rabid loli pervs craving prettier art and animation but less intelligent storylines. I escaped mainstream America because it has became too dumb for me; I don’t want anime to succeed by becoming dumber.

My blog is still fairly new as well, and I still don’t quite know what I really want to do with it. And while I’m not really interested in doing episode summaries, it’s always good to have guidelines in knowing what to do, just in case.

Sea Slugs does some batch reviews, and while they’re good to get overall opinions on the series and where it went right or wrong… well, they’re not interesting, mostly because they’re not timely - an important factor when I read summary blogs like Random Curiosity or Memento. Unless, of course, they do more than just summarize things… which is where I’ll point to Wakaranai’s GITS section.

And how dare you say Matsuri and Ana is a totally broken pair — actually, on retrospect, yeah, they are, but for damn good reason. :3