I haven’t gotten around to changing the banner, which I should, but at least I’ve finally switched the ‘top 5 shows’ icons below it for now—top 5 being my personal preference, it’s not decided by a vote or anything. I got rid of Bleach, which I didn’t think I would when I first put it up…Of course, they have to be ones I’m blogging at the moment (which isn’t a lot…)

Hmm, after some thought, I’ve decided to drop Dragonaut ~ The Resonance. I don’t really feel up to it anymore, especially as how the show turned out to be quite disappointing.

I hate dropping shows, so the other three I’m really behind on, D.Gray-man, Naruto and Hayate no Gotoku, will probably be taken care of by a single post that spans many episodes, since there’s no real point in talking about them in any further detail when everyone’s probably gone and watched ahead (which, I might add, also applies to me lol).

Just to clarify, the shows I’m blogging now are: Bleach, Naruto Shippuden, D.Gray-man, Hayate no Gotoku, Clannad, Gundam 00, True Tears, Ookami to Koushinryou, H2O ~ Footprints in the Sand and Shakugan no Shana II. If you’re wondering about the many other show I have listed under ‘current’ in the sidebar which I have not finished, such as Lucky Star and Nagasarete Airantou, all I can say is, I will finish them when I feel like it. Basically since, no one really cares about them now that they’ve finished, do they?

And lastly, the 2007 anime awards will probably all be finalised in early February.

Merry Christmas folks! Most of you will still have a few hours to go, but it’s already that time in Australia (where our xmas’s are HOT, sticky and uncomfortable!) Ok, now back to blogging anime…

Oh and…NOMINATE for the 2007 not-so-typical-Anime-Awards! =)

I’ll probably add a picture later on to pretty things up, but for now, anyone who’s interested in why this blog and others have been down for the past 12 hours or so, please proceed to a post by Maestro on Kurogane’s Anime Blog.

Well, it says here…I foresee some blog aggregator spammage coming up…if this is real. But whatever I think I’ve gotten over haruhi for the meantime and won’t get back into it until it actually starts. As for now I’m desperately awaiting Shana season 2 xD

Edit: Will be announced on the official site on Tanabata (07/07/07)

In effect from the 1st of July 2007 and onwards!

There seems to have been a bit of controversy regarding my ratings in my recent Bleach 131 post. Because of that, I have decided to alter my method of ratings to a more ‘normal’ way of rating (hopefully). From now on, I will rate episodes according to the chart below, and you can now see what a show actually gets if I rated it 8.5 for example (it would get 6.5). My tendencies were to put most of the ratings between 9 and 10, which you can see actually spans from 7 to 10.

10 = 10 = Exceptional
9.9 = 9.5 = Excellent
9.8 = 9 = Great (ok I’m not sure if ‘great’ is actually higher than ‘very good’, any ideas?)
9.5 = 8 = Very Good
9 = 7 = Good
8 = 6 = Decent
7 = 5 = Average
6 = 4 = Poor
5 = 3 = Bad
4 = 2 = Very Bad
3 = 1 = Horrible
<3 = 0 = Impossible to get ^^;;

Ok, here’s the list of anime I will be dropping:

- Nodame Cantabile
- Venus Versus Virus

And here’s the list of new spring 2007 anime I have seen, and whether I will be picking them up or not:

Nagasarete Airantou – yup, blogging this.

Hayate the Combat Butler – blogging this too.

Seto no Hanayome – will blog this if subs are released.

Darker than Black – blogging this too.

Lucky Star – oh hell yes, definitely blogging this.

Nanoha StrikerS – er, I will probably be blogging this…lol

Gigantic Formula – this is an awesome show, but sadly not blogging it. It seems mecha has been overrunning heaps of shows this season, and I was afraid they’d all be crap. Thankfully, I’ve found a really good show here.

Idolmaster Xenoglossia – another mecha show that I will be watching but not blogging. It’s not as good as Gigantic Formula, but the array of characters is what keeps me deeply interested.

Lovely Complex – yes, I will be blogging this show. I was reluctant at first, but seeing how hilarious it is, and the fact that I haven’t blogged a shoujo in a while (or at all) made me change my mind. The character designs are awful though. x_x

Claymore – yuck, the character designs suck so bad I couldn’t watch for more than 15 minutes. And no, I did not diss it for being shounen. Sorry, won’t be watching/blogging this show.

Overdrive – nice first episode, but I won’t be continuing with this show (in terms of watching and blogging). I guess I don’t have enough motivation…

Touka Gettan – watched the first episode, didn’t understand much, wasn’t attracted much either. No, won’t be watching or blogging this one.

Romeo x Juliet – even though I liked the first episode, I realise that these kinds of shows I usually end up disliking (and since I have a limit to my download due to crap Australian internet, I decided to drop it in watching and blogging).

Shining Tears X Wind – well, I was interested in this show because it looked alright, but that’s about it. I didn’t like the first episode much, and for same reasons for dropping RxJ, I will not be watching and/or blogging this show.

Bokurano – yes, definitely watching this show (still because everyone says it will get a lot better), but won’t be blogging it.

Heroic Age – I will be following this anime as well, but won’t be blogging it.

Hitohira – won’t be watching this anime…

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagaan – watched the second episode in Japan lol…wasn’t very interested so won’t be watching any more.

El Cazador – I wanted to follow this anime, but again from experience, these animes usually lose my interest after a while

Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica – wow, animation quality is in the shits…won’t be following this.

Liar Game – lol, this isn’t an anime, it’s a dorama, but I just mentioned it since I shall be watching it.