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So what originally started as an entry for Serenity’s Signature Contest has now become my fourth banner!

And these have been my past banners:

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A fellow blogger, Serenity, has decided to hold a signature contest to see who can make the best sig. This is the perfect chance to show off your awesome photoshoping skills or whatever graphics program you use, so hurry up and please visit her post here to see the full details of this competition. Entries close next tuesday, 2/1/2007.

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Merry Christmas! Hohoho! Well, it’s the 25th where I live; don’t know about you though!

Random thoughts: Winter Garden looks good; probably gonna watch it raw. Hmm, I still have to do my favourite shows of 2006…ahh I’ll do it tomorrow. I think I also have to do a fall season wrapup. And damn so many shows to catch up on! That’s it, I’m watching OtoBoku raw now. Subs are too slow! Anyway enjoy this random 4koma I drew of Suzumiya Haruhi!

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Hah, Darkshaunz, a fellow AB.net blogger who blogs at http://retsgip.animeblogger.net managed to come up with an awesome new annual ‘competition’. After I started the topic on IRC by asking about Karen’s new Frame’s name from Code Geass, those who were active on the channel started coming up with their own whacky mechas and their special moves. For details, head over to THIS POST by Darkshaunz and PLEASE VOTE for the mecha you like most. So yeah, vote me!! xD

Oh and, inspired by the above picture, I have made a wallpaper too. The resolution is 1280 x 1024.

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So yeah, Maestro is holding a competition with four (I think it’s 4) copies of the Hellsing Ultimate DVDs to give away. There’s a competition for bloggers, and a random draw for all the others. Head over to here for details. This is a chance you can’t pass!!

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Ok, so it’s not really that serious, but AnimeBlogger.net is in need of a helping hand from all those who can. Head over to this post by Maestro, who needs donations for the site!

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Just a little update on the blog.

1. I have fixed the spoiler tags to allow anyone to use them in the comments section. I had to modify the kses.php file since I don’t know how to use the my-hacks.php thing. Anyway, if you’d like to know how to do it, using you FTP browser, navigate to the ‘wp-includes’ folder, where you’ll find the kses.php. Download that file and open it in whatever text editor you use. Find the section that may look something like this:

'code' => array (),
// ‘del’ => array(’datetime’ => array()),
// ‘dd’ => array(),
// ‘dl’ => array(),
// ‘dt’ => array(),

Just below that, add another line like this, assuming you’re using the same spoiler plugin as me, and it should work fine. Oh and by the way, the way you use the spoiler tags can be found here =)

'spoiler' => array (),

2. After that, I thought I should say what’s happening with this blog. There’s been a lot of talk about how new bloggers make the ‘mistake’ of doing per-episode summaries. Well, I highly disagree with the statement that this is a ‘mistake’. I like reading per-episode summaries and I know other people do as well. This has also been addressed in one of the recent AnimeNano podcasts as well. I also suck at writing editorials, and I believe my knowledge on anime and Japanese culture is far to limited to write anything about it, so if you like to call it ‘the easy way out’ or whatever, then so be it.

Also, if you read my blog, you would most likely have noticed I put the majority of my effort into writing impressions on the episodes, instead of summaries. I find them a waste of time, and usually other people have written summaries before me. What people can’t accomplish before me is to illustrate my thoughts on the matter, so I will be sticking with that. If I am busy, I will usually write short impressions, no summary and reduced screenshots. If I am in no hurry, or if I really like the episode, I will write a full entry, with at least 30 screenshots, a decent length impressions and a short plot outline.

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I dunno how many people got that email from that advertising company about the new Hellsing OAVs coming on the 5th of December, the email providing the promotional art, now the second with the trailers. And that’s exactly what this post is about: the trailer. So yeah, if you haven’t seen Hellsing, you might want to try this trailer (in English since it’s for the American dub of the OAVs).

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Size: 16mb
Duration: 3min 15sec
Resolution: 320 x 240px
Official Site: http://hellsingultimate.com/

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