Category Archives: Editorials

[Team Blue] Team blogging is not the future for anime blogging. Not now, not ever. [now with lelangir's inserted thoughts which amount to the fact that it doesn't take a team blog to do team blogging]

By Impz | Published: January 4, 2009

lelangir: my thoughts are in blue I recently joined Team Blue, a group of informal friends in real life and on the web. As many of the group members are united by anime (be it otaku levels or pretty nonchalant like me), some of them have an anime blog to their credit. Recently, they started a [...]

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AMVerse – speculations on a ’sphere

By lelangir | Published: January 2, 2009

←[101] The majority of AMV’s suck. Few are good. But the ones that are good have the potential to be trailers. Yes, there’s not much difference between a PR trailer produced by a company and a fan-made AMV. However, the difference that is evident is subtle yet has much larger implications.

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ANN’s reviewers are critics? What makes an anime critic?

By Impz | Published: December 21, 2008

And you increase your retarded level by 3. This is actually a reaction post after reading Deftoned’s discussion about how ANN hates Nanoha (and the always excellent Jpmeyer as usual writes a LOL! entry about the incident). I do not profess to be able to write anything as great as these two writers, but I have [...]

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Since Time Immemorial – thoughts on the blogging tradition? part 2

By lelangir | Published: November 21, 2008

←[82] Read the first part here.

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Impz is not popular enough to be in Danny’s blogging workshop!

By Impz | Published: November 1, 2008

Never try to be popular. You just can’t be popular. According to Panther, it seemed like some of the other Singaporean bloggers have received an invitation to Dannychoo’s Animax Blogging Workshop that I sent my entry to. Obviously, it turned out many other Singaporean bloggers has received their secret email invitations too. This is obviously an [...]

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When your writing no longer feels good to you…

By Impz | Published: September 8, 2008

This is NOT a quit entry or I will blog less entry. Before anyone thinks that this is a quit post by me, I assure you not. It’s an amusing thought whenever people read a title such as this, they immediately associate it with quit threats. Crusader immediately gave me a private message on Yahoo [...]

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Otakon 2008 – My annual pilgrimage to the East Coast’s Otaku Mecca

By Maipeisu | Published: August 12, 2008

First Alphonse Elric I’ve ever seen = WIN. I am rather amused to admit that this past weekend (August 8th – 10th) taught me something very interesting about myself: three days with no Internet access and no way of checking THAT is enough to drive me up the wall. I really, truly adore you traps, Net [...]

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