Okay. It has been just over half a year since I joined Anime Banzai! as a writer (8 mths if anyone is counting).

I guess it’s time to do a little looking back as I step into the next phase of my life.

Incidentally, these past months have been one of new beginnings as I re-organised my room, reformatted my computer, Abanzai upgrading to version 4 (although oOgA seems to want to do a version 5 right now), cleaning up my display cabinet etc etc…

Anyway, with my 2 years (almost) of obligatory National Service over and done with, I can finally move on to the next stage of the show which is my life. University.

Just to clarify, I’m not a girl O_o

But before we go there, I need to bore you with my ramblings of the good old times.

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[Looking Back]

As some of you would know, I started properly watching Anime only recently, somewhere around March of last year. It started simply. My friend introduced me to some shows and I watched them. After I watched them, I asked for more. I started looking for more shows by myself and soon I found myself watching both current shows and old shows concurrently. I was hooked.

Ji~~~~~

I started checking up on Anime Blogs for information on news and pretty much remained a lurker for sometime. During that time, the sites I mainly monitored were Random Curiousity and Anime Banzai! (no I’m not stoking your ego oOgA. It is true =D)

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However, soon, I wasn’t satisfied with just being a lurker. Being a comment and a name at the end of a writer’s posts didn’t satisfy me either. That was when I spotted a scrolling marquee at the top of then Anime Banzai! Version 3. It was probably there for sometime but I failed to notice it till then. In short, oOgA’s scrolling marquee could be summarised to the below:

oOgA: Uguu~ I want more writers~…

I thought and pondered and deliberated. And send in an email.

Can you guess the show? =D

And the rest is history.
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[Reflections and the Road Ahead]

Anime that is =D

Fast forward to now, I have watched my share of shows, gone to my share of Anime related events and bought my share of figurines. Oh how I have fallen.

I don’t do that……. Seriously……You don’t believe me do you? >_>

I have seen Anime Banzai! transition from Version 3 to Version 3.5 (oh the horror!) and finally to Version 4 (and now maybe version 5?). While there are still bugs and tweaks that oOgA has to work out (I count them by the tens), I must say it is looking a hell lot nicer and I’m sure the final product would be even more so.

As a writer in Anime Banzai!, I have gained much from this blog, namely being able to make friends with fellow overseas writers Jellokun, Patz and Setsukyie and our local writers Hiyuu, Kozato, Moe-chan, Hinoko and of course our Blog Master (He-Who-Wields-The-Chopping-Knife) oOgA.

oOgA expects worship 3 times a day. That’s him in the middle. That’s Setsukyie glomping him.

Also, being a writer of this blog has indirectly pushed me to picking up some skills I wouldn’t normally acquire such as Photoshopping and Audio editing, both of which I needed for pictures and our currently on hiatus Funcast. As of now, I’m picking up abit on Video editing as well =D.

“oOgA asked you to write an editorial?”

Now that I’ve stepped into university, a whole new life awaits me. I don’t know what to expect but it will probably be an exciting, life-changing experience. (yeah, one of impending deadlines, endless assignments, eternity slaving in front of a boiling test tube and the pilling up of unwatched anime that reaches to high heaven.)

Yeah, I looked like that when I heard the timetable.

Just in case anyone’s curious, I’ll be reading Life Sciences at the National University of Singapore. I will of course be joining my fellow anime fans in the NUS Comic and Animation Society. =D

And not forgetting my many many microbe friends whom I’ll be seeing very often.

Whatever may come, it will be a given that my time will no longer be as abundant as before. Thus, I will no longer do episodic reviews (haven’t done them for awhile anyway ^^) and instead follow what Setsukyie had mentioned previously and maybe do summaries instead. (That and I feel freaking lazy too =D)

I will also probably do sneak peeks and what I call “impulse posts” where I watch a show and get this immediate urge to post.

I will of course continue to check out local events Singapore-side if time permits and also fill the blog with more Lucky Star goodness =D.

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And so to conclude my long-winded post:-

To Jellokun: Keep it up with the Podcast and forums, you are doing great. (^_^)b
To Patz: Stop introducing me 80s and 90s anime or I’ll have no life. And time your shipments to avoid EPIC WALLET DRAINAGE =D
To Hiyuu: Good luck with NS life and please teach me uber Photoshop skills =D
To Setsukyie: Here’s to future joint posts and projects. d( ^w^.)b
To Kozato and Hinoko: Look forward to seeing you guys at local events.
To Moe-chan: Quit giving all your electrical appliances Moe names. It’s creepy O_o

And finally to oOgA: Great Job with the blog and keep it up. You know who to look for if you need help. As long as it doesn’t involve coding the blog =D.

Thanks guys.

Kore kara mo yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

Anime Banzai!

PS: Are you able to list all the anime whose screenshots I used? =D