2008 Anime Blog Awards Nominations
I have two types of nominations: Seeds and Wild Cards.
Seeds: Nepotism at its finest. These are blogs I regularly read, link to, comment on, etc…
Wild Cards: When I run out of Seeds, I browse the list of nominees and select a worthy candidate.
Best Episodic Blog
Seed: Random Curiosity
Seed: Sea Slugs!
Seed: Star Crossed Anime Blog
Comments: Taking screenshots every 10 seconds is a pain in the ass. I tried it once. It gave me cramps.
Best Editorial Blog
Seed: In Search of Number Nine
Seed: The Animanachronism
Seed: Drastic my Anime Blog
Comments: So many good ones. I ended up going with The Twin Stars (No. 9 and Animanachronism), and Drastic my Anime Blog is just a really cool name.
Best Team Blog
Seed: RIUVA
Seed: Yukan
Seed: THAT Animeblog
Comments: Yukan has 9 bloggers. If that doesn’t deserve an award, what does? Running a team blog is no easy task. Baka-Raptor started out as a team blog. Ghetto was the primary author of the White Suits page, the Stepping on Twigs page, and then he decided to get a life. Bastard.
Best Manga Blog
Wild Card: Manga Blog
Wild Card: Manga Cast
Wild Card: Manga Maniac Cafe
Comments: They all have Manga in the title…
Most Influential Blog
Seed: Hop Step Jump!
Seed: Derailed by Darry
Wild Card: Danny Choo
Comments: I trust Jeff Lawson. Jason Miao may be lolikitsune’s mortal enemy, but that doesn’t change the fact that over 1000 people voted in his mako-cakes poll. My polls barely hit 20. Danny Choo is the most popular anime blogger I know absolutely nothing about.
Best Dorama
Seed: Cruel Angel Theses
Seed: Hontou ni sou omou?
Seed: The Scrumptious Anime Blog
Comments: Owen’s “April” “Fools” “Day” “Joke” apparently changed people’s lives. Zyl has threatened me on more than one occasion. Usagijen’s inflammatory post got me trolling.
Rookie of the Year
Seed: In Search of Number Nine
Seed: The Animanachronism
Seed: Are-Are
Comments: The Twin Stars strike again. Nagato’s manliness is second only to my own.
Funniest Blog
Seed: Minaide Hazukashii
Seed: Not Dotq
Wild Card: Lovely Kitsune
Comments: I’m going to be a sore loser no matter who wins, unless it’s Lovely Kitsune, the genius behind Misuzu’s Diary. The blog reminds me of my own, before I sold out.
Best Satire Blog
Seed: Not Dotq
Seed: In Search of Number Nine
Seed: The Animanachronism
Comments: A hat trick for The Twin Stars.
Best Seiyuu-Oriented Blog
Wild Card: Hashihime
Wild Card: Seiyuu3
Wild Card: j1m0ne
Comments: These seem to be only three…
Most Thought-Provoking Blog
Seed: In Search of Number Nine
Seed: The Animanachronism
Seed: Anime Otaku
Comments: The Twin Stars end their run with 4 nominations. Although I only discovered Anime Otaku a few days ago, its post titles alone were thought-provoking enough to make the cut.
Best Blog-related Comic
Wild Card: Beta-Waffle
Wild Card: Mistakes of Youth
Wild Card: Dango Blog
Comments: What’s wrong with my comics?
Best Figurine Blog
Seed: Cross Channel
Wild Card: Happy Soda
Wild Card: Figure News
Comments: It’s funny when it doesn’t happen to you
Best Art/Doujin/Visual Novel Blog
Wild Card: Radiant Dreamer
Wild Card: Eroge Review
Wild Card: Heisei Democracy
Comments: Another category that conspicuously ignored me…
Best News Blog
Seed: a geek by any other name
Wild Card: moetron
Wild Card: Canned Dogs
Comments: The tag cloud at animeblogger antenna says it all.
One final note: NOMINATE ME! Need a reason? HOW ABOUT 100 REASONS!?!
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April 20th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Is this a troll lol? Cross Channel isn’t a figure blog.
They need a Best Otaku Blog category because I think I’d be under that. My blog can’t just be pigeon holed into one category, sadly.
April 20th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Thank you for nominating me. The description made me laugh out loud, though. I appreciate it.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:04 am
@Koji Oe: Oops, I guess I got caught making sarcastic nominations. If you don’t like it, perhaps you get get revenge by nominating me for an irrelevant category…. Seriously though, I don’t really read any figure blogs, and I remembered you had a Kotomi figure. Your blog is well-rounded (just like mine) and I don’t think any single category really captures its essence.
@Michael: Gee, if only there were some way to express your thanks…through, like, nominations or something…. Yeah, I’m lazy. Your titles made me think. Someday I might actually read the whole post.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:17 am
The only blog my browser is allowed to open is Baka-Raptor. All hail Baka-Raptor!
April 20th, 2008 at 10:23 am
>>@Michael: Gee, if only there were some way to express your thanks…through, like, nominations or something…. Yeah, I’m lazy. Your titles made me think. Someday I might actually read the whole post.
Baka-Raptor, don’t do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’ll regret your nomination for the rest of your life if you read his posts’ contents.
Also, I’m glad that you recognize Lovely Kitsune’s greatness.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Baka-Raptor@ Yeah, they really needed an all around category. Honestly, what were the thinking not having one?
I’m not participating because I don’t really think of other blogs as being good at something. I just read whatever is written if it interests me. I hardly ever read one blog religiously just to read something.
I think this is where an all around blog has an advantage. I dunno.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Thanks for the nominations! I guess iniksbane and I are like Castor and Pollux. Or something. So long as we’re not Cagalli and Kira, because then we’d have to argue over who was Cagalli.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:28 am
@IKnight: I was thinking Mittermeyer and Reuental, although I haven’t yet decided who’s who.
@lolikitsune: You need to send me a comprehensive list of which blogs you hate and why. I still don’t get what all the Miao bashing is about.
April 20th, 2008 at 11:55 am
I’ll make you a chart, or maybe a graph. Look forward to my next post.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
[...] was asking for it. Yeah, he asked incorrectly, but thanks to my intelligence from Miao—namely, that graphs make you [...]
April 20th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
This blog is sweet! But I’m too lazy to change my nomination. And if I changed my nomination, people might call me a flip-flopper!
April 20th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
@Hung: Aren’t you the guy who runs Anime Nano? Don’t tell me you added my blog (less than two weeks ago) without giving it a proper assessment…
April 20th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
M-manliness?! q_q
In any case, you’ve secured my vote for the Satire category. Your site IS modeled after Maddox’s, so it’s not an unfeasible nomination.
April 20th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
@Nagato: We’ve already established that you’re a man. You even admitted it:
“Hm, I don’t remember saying I was male. It’s fine though.” - You
As far as this website is concerned, you’re a man. End of story. It’s not such a bad thing. You don’t have to shave your legs, and auto mechanics won’t automatically assume they can rip you off.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
lol. was my post that dorama-tic? xD
Nevertheless, thanks for the nomination!
April 20th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I’m pretty sure iknight’s Mittemeyer and I’m Ruental
Thanks for the nominations. May dinosaurs and lesbians come your way.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:49 am
Fine fine, just on your site though. ;p
And I was wondering why every time I needed to repair my vehicle it was so darn expensive.
April 21st, 2008 at 6:27 am
YAY! I’m glad I’m on that list lol~~
Thanks for the nomination also! Even though we’ve only known each other for such a little time xD
April 21st, 2008 at 9:24 am
Thanks for the nomination. I’m still surprised when people don’t get the reference to the blog’s name though.
April 23rd, 2008 at 1:05 am
Well, that whole 100 pics post just takes the cake. I didn’t read all the posts you made, just enough to make out that the design on this blog is hella bad. Anywho, I made the nominations before I added your blog, I think.