I’m gonna be segmenting my Otakon coverage, partly because the thing as a whole is so massive, and partly because I want the sense of accomplishment from writing an Otakon post tonight without the incredible amount of work it’d take to do it all at once. So first up, I’ll start with the easy stuff: my haul.
I grow weary of blogroll convention. You give a list of blogs, and it’s basically just a shout-out to friends. You give an annotated blogroll, but who really cares? How much can you really say in your one little paragraph that actually gives people a sense of the blogger? Not much. I grow weary of this shout-out style of blogroll. I love you guys – you know that. There’s no real meaning in my linking to your blog and trying to say something about it if I don’t really read your blog.
The month ends tomorrow? Too bad, I’m ending it now. Enough February. Let’s have us some March! It’s the Nuttbladder thing again, which went well I guess last month. That time I talked about some currently airing shows. I haven’t watched but one of those in February, which was Sora no Woto. Yikes. First, let’s talk about some peculiar things.
As long as I’m going around calling myself the ‘otaku gonzo journalist’ or whatever, I might as well write about some actual gonzo experiences. If you were going to tell someone what ‘life as an otaku is like’ it’d be pretty easy to just say ‘well, you’ll spend a lot of time alone in your room doing a lot of nothing.’ However, it’s not like otakudom doesn’t effect people in unique ways as well, so I’ll be sharing a little bit of that with you. I’ve been trying to keep a dream diary anyway, so now I’ll recount the dream I had last night about Strike Witches, which was probably one of the best dreams I’ve ever had (which isn’t saying much because 99% of my dreams are horrifying nightmares, but whatever.)
The first decade of the formerly-new millennium is coming to a close, so it’s natural that everyone wants to have a go at recollecting it. The biggest trend so far has been talking about some of your favorite, or otherwise all of the noteworthy shows you saw this decade. I thought about doing that, but I realized there was a bigger fish to fry. I’m not just going to talk about some shows I liked – instead, what I have done is compiled a list of every single worthwhile anime of the past decade. I will now take a few paragraphs to explain to you how this was possible.
Because I think there will be a lot going on in this post and I can think of like 5 different ways to start it, I’m breaking it into sections.