So, over the weekend I attended Anime Weekend Atlanta, a major anime convention in the Southeastern United States that luckily happens to take place just 90 minutes from where I live. It’s always been something of a big event for me, being the only convention I ever really make an effort to attend due to being too broke to travel elsewhere to Otakon or the like (nevermind my quarter-based class schedule further compounding that sort of thing; AWA sits just perfectly in the middle of my autumn break every year). Having just gotten home from the con late Sunday, I figured I’d take the time to update you on the highlights of the event as I experienced them. You might wanna get settled in. This is gonna be pretty lengthy.
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
I haven’t made a substantial update here in ages. My last major update was about six weeks ago. This one’s going to be kind of unstructured, just talking about what I’ve been up to as far as anime goes. Also, with the new season coming up very soon, I’ll talk briefly about what I intend to watch.
The chief reason for all this is that I’ve been sick, and additionally have been extremely busy. For those that care, I’m nearing my final few weeks in my Honours degree, I’m swamped with assignments, and I’ve kind of lost motivation. Just want to end it.
A couple of quick notes. Firstly, the fucker(s?) who’ve been comment spamming us… I know this is probably completely useless, but please stop. All comments on this blog are moderated unless made by myself or Nagi, your spam will never make it onto the site, and all you’re doing is wasting your time. And mine, since I have to remove that crap from the database. >:(
Also, more importantly… there’s been a number of other blogs linking to us recently. Thanks. 
It can be hard to keep track though, so please if you do link to us, let us know so we can return the favour.
Yeah, I know, I know, Godzilla isn’t exactly animu and this is a mostly animu-oriented blog. However, Godzilla is, without a doubt, one of the most recognisable figures in Japanese cinema history, and I’m not ashamed to say I have a bit of a personal attachment to the Big Guy. I’ve been a die-hard fan as far back as I can remember; hell, my earliest conscious memory is of me watching Godzilla vs. Gigan and Godzilla 1985 back when I was two years old! And 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars is something of a landmark film for the series, which now spans more than two-dozen total flicks ranging from awful (Godzilla vs. Megalon, anybody?) to damn-near artistic masterwork (Godzilla vs. Mothra ‘64). Y’see, 2004 marks the 50th anniversary of Godzilla, and to celebrate, Toho pulled out all the stops in making the biggest, flashiest, most spectacular Godzilla movie they possibly could. Or at least that was the intent. It’s also, as far as Toho’s saying now (and they’ve said it about five other times before, so…), the final Godzilla movie ever. So, did Toho accomplish what they set out to do, in giving the Big Guy his ultimate send-off? Well, yes & no.
Unfortunately we don’t have a :V smiley to properly convey how amusing this was. Apparently, “[we] need help, better yet therapy” because “anime sucks”.
One thing about the internet which can be both amusing and irritating is that there’s never a shortage of utter morons to pop out of the woodwork when you least expect it. We recieved several comments from one such, attempting to convince us that Anime is a terrible hobby and we need to grow up and sign his anti-anime petition. Thank you sir, you made my day substantially more amusing.
“I think anime sucks, I can’t believe a bunch of morons would want to sit and watch cartoon for two hours or more. Is just amazing how many threads I find of people discussing their favorite little cartoon. I just got tire and had to say something. I will not let my friends be engulfed by these stupid anime things with their big eyes and their incredibly horrendous themes. God help you guys!”
Unless Nagi hasn’t been telling us something, I’m pretty sure neither of us know who this guy is. Some random internet crazy. Anyway, we’re suddenly his ‘friends’ and he’s attempting to stage some kind of online intervention. Touching.
“You got to be kidding me. A person would write a whole page describing a “review” on some show. Man, yoy guys need help, better yet therapy. Do not be offended by my comments I am just trying to help.”
I’d give some sarcastic commentary on the first part of this one, but I’m not even sure it makes sense, and the whole comment pretty much makes fun of itself.
“Look, man, I am right here to help you guys. Please visit anime sucks petition and sign up and stop being a little kid watching cartoons. For goodness sake I feel as though I were taking “crazy pills” navigating the web and finding these stupid posts. Guys, please do grow up!”
Your eloquent arguments have swayed me sir. I wish to kick this disgusting, childish habit. I will now proceed directly to your petition and sign it repeatedly until such time as my fingers start bleeding from excessive mousing. After all, we can’t have people being disgusted because other people like things they don’t and mention it over the internet. It must be terrible having a gun held to your head and having to visit websites like this.