THAT Animeblog

I looked at my watch and eagerly awaited for the time my train was supposed to arrive. After leaving from my part-time job as well as listing files in front of my computer for seven hours, I was thinking only about the magazine in my hands and the Boom Boom Satellites CD I was listening to. As the sunset was glaring, I adjusted my sunglasses and stood in line as I got ready to board the incoming train. As was usual, the train was devoid from seated places, since it’s full with people getting back to their homes, so I sit on the ground, on the opposite side of the train door.

Then she entered…

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I demand my birthday cake now~

Two what? Obviously, it is now two years since the establishment of T.H.A.T. Two years ago, four random friends on the Internet decided to set up an anime blog. None of us probably expected this tiny little anime blog to go anywhere, since the Internet is notorious for kicking newbies in the gut, solar plexis and the ass to gain any fame/infamy. With a blink of an eye, two years have past. With that in mind, Calawain asked me to write an anniversary post, despite my reluctance to write a boring post.

Impz: hahaha. i am thinking how to write it well
Calawain15: uh thank all the writers and commenters over the two years
Calawain15: and the other bloggers in the community
Calawain15: you’re glad to be a part of such a great team of people, blah blah
Calawain15: hope we can continue for another year blah blah
Impz: that sounds so boring.
Calawain15: …..
Calawain15: it’s just an anniversary post

 
However, I decided to get rid of my prejudices for such a post. It’s important to thank the various important people and make a semi-serious evaluation of THAT bloggers. If you are wondering, none of them know that they are going to be evaluated, so they are likely to express as much surprise as you, the reader who is reading this.

Without my co-bloggers, THAT will never be THAT. It will be about green haired lolis and Tsuruya, which is not bad but not exactly great. It’s time to bring the crystal ball of reminiscence and embarrassment. Let me bring you back into the history, where we first started as clueless bloggers of THAT. Alkanphel, Joo and Mr Admin were the initial anime bloggers in this humble blog, and it soon became a behemoth of a team. I think I will make a separate entry on remarkable commentators, since it is probably way too much to include them in this post. The three new bloggers and Maipeisu are not included, so thank your lucky stars for escaping my evaluation!

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It’s not about the end but rather how you got there.

So after finishing a rather grueling lab I decided to rent some movies about 3-D folk and wound up watching something that I had been meaning for some time to see but with that rolling release it never came to my end of the earth. So Journey from the Fall is a historical drama that was based on the experience of those who survived the camps and the perilous journey in leaky boats. It was quite different from the typical Vietnam film as it deals much more about the consequences of the North Vietnamese victory in 1975 and lacks the glory, action, and moonshine of jungle warfare that marks most films that deal with the Vietnam War. It does something I wish all films with an anti-war theme would do, namely show the consequences of war rather than the heroics of war. Perhaps one day the complete story of the Vietnam War will be told and reflected upon by less impassioned minds, but nonetheless it is part of the minority of films that dealt with what happened to the Vietnamese Diaspora who count themselves among the lesser known victims of the war.

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Why yes I would gladly pay 300 yen for some badly fried soba and all the water I can drink.

Well now the circle is now complete and I got my 1/8 Max Factory Mikuru in School Festival outfit. Given how times are kind of tough right now I guess this will be the last thing I’ll be getting for a while. Thus far given the weak dollar this is about the most I have ever spent on a figure to date. So I have been wondering since the dollar is weak any of you boys and girls still shopping like crazy importing stuff? This also another plea to the cult leader to give us secrets so we might be able to buy more; alas Moyism is remaining tight lipped about the secret to avoiding financial ruin. Now that I have one figure for every character in SHnY I feel some what triumphant, but for some reason I feel content to the point that there is nothing right now that tickles my fancy. Not sure if this is a sign that I have lost the passion, but unless one of the big PVC companies is putting out a Sheryl, Ranka, Klein, and Alto-hime figures I can’t think of anything coming out or has been released that I just had to have. (Yeah I suck at photography get over it.)

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Due to plain laziness to run the data, I only ran it during this month and it’s amusing that it is already three months since our last post like this. As usual, we have the battle royale for July, showing you the authors who are doing well, and those lazy punks that need to work harder (j/k). For all authors of THAT Anime Blog, this is all for laughter and self-depreciation. I hope no one will get offended. ^^

Of course, all results are average/means.

Author who has too much time - Impz with 20 posts
Author who forgot about THAT - Lupus with 1 post
Author who is TL;Dr - Crusader with 3516 words per post
Author who cannot fill the space - Extrange with 828 words per post
Author who is loved by readers - Calawain with 25.5 comments
Author who is loved by lurkers - Reverse Vampire with 4 comments
Author who yaks along with chatty readers - Calawain with 6503 words in comments
Author who gets “Thank you for blogging” comments - Reverse Vampire with 223 words in comments
Author with most blogosphere e-penor - Calawain with 6 trackbacks
Author with least blogosphere e-penor - Tie between Extrange, Reverse Vampire and Shokkeru with 0 trackbacks

Support your favorite blogger of THAT, and let him/her crush the other bloggers to smithereens next time! Honestly though, what is Crusader and Calawain freaking doing in those Code Geass entries? Having freaking novel and encyclopedia discussions? They yakked too much!

On site news, we will be ushering in three bloggers who have recently applied to the team. They will be revealed soon when we confirm their entrance to our blog. With these new writers entering the fray, we are not accepting any more applications to our blog until there is an opening available. We also revamped the “About us” page because the old one is just so damn boring that no one will bother to even read them ever. Now, we made it much more interesting that fits the character of the blog, so visit the new page and tell us what you think about it.

Our most loved female otaku who does not want to be recognized as one.

It’s always good to have a chance to laugh at your dumb girlfriend when you wake up in the morning. Here is the tale as re-accounted by my girlfriend on a private chat online. For some reason, she is speaking in the third person. A warning ahead of time: whatever sweet compliments she has subtly (well, not that subtle) implanted about her are hopelessly false and forced.

Here’s her tale of epic proportions, her journey into a world unseen, untouched and unheard in her life.

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Neither will this post.

Well this post is incredibly late and was originally prompted by usagijen’s confessions of her undying love of being a less than perfect blogger, and omo’s post about how we all fit in as a community. To be honest I have realized long ago the depths of my own insanity and the intricacies of how my profession basically permeates my own existence. Few indeed are those who are defined mostly by their jobs, but as a lowly grunt in service of a reviled military machine my ass belongs to Uncle Sam 24/7/365. Thus while nominally an American citizen I have elected to shoot my rights in the face and sacrificed them all for the sake of playing with big guns and haul around equipment worth more than most people’s monthly salaries. Suffice to say my own freedom of expression has been voluntarily curtailed and if I avoid touching on certain things regarding my profession it is not because of ignorance, but any one who has half a brain and is aware of the NSA should realize that they might are monitoring everything and to be honest even a gun wielding manic like me is wary of the boys and girls in the black box.

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