Yi’s post, in the context of Nopy’s broader History With Anime Project, got me reminiscing about how my consumption of anime has evolved through the years, particularly the on and off phases. These have been organized in terms of the media by I came into contact with anime before the current era of BitTorrent.

A caveat: The lack of written records and a few artifacts makes this attempt to reconstruct the past, from the mid 1980s to up until mid 2005, an exercise fraught with possible bias due to nostalgia, the selection effect and other biases.

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Zyl: Congratulations to chaostangent for a well-deserved win and apologies for the belated response. The tourney has been interesting to follow and the feedback much appreciated – I agree with many of the points raised by Josh’s detailed comparison and thanks to everyone who visited, voted and commented; would also like to take this opportunity to respond and share some of my reflections.

Stripey: Felicitations to chaotangent and apologies to comrade-in-anime Zyl for battling the tourney alone. (Although with me, it’d be like Clare heading into a fight WITH Raki in tow. ). While I haven’t been as diligent in following the tourney as I ought, it was very heartening to see that a few folks ‘miss Stripey and his siscon’. Your comments have been uplifting and were very much appreciated. Even though I haven’t been quite in synch with the aniblog scene, here’s adding my 2 yen for what it’s worth.

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beerman, well that was his nick back in the day, announced the end of his LiveJournal nekomimimode blog; he points readers to his Twitter, Flickr, MAL, nico and smart.fm accounts.

To which I can fortuitously contrast against a recent post by another relative veteran, Yumeka, where she described how:

With my blog as my main representative, and things such as Twitter, Facebook, MyAnimeList, and other social networks as additives, these things can come together and create a unique online identity for yourself

My usage of online platforms tends towards Yumeka’s but is probably more restrictive; I prefer to keep my online persona fragmented (one for anime, others for others). MAL is used just as a listing tool and updated only maybe once or twice each quarter. Finally signed up for a Twitter account recently in a spurt of SS!AB solidarity though I think of it, first and foremost, as a type of feedreader for witty remarks (brevity is indeed the soul of) and then, second, as a chat client where I mostly stick to lurking until I want to reply @someone. Which fits Option 4 in Erica’s Twitter as cocktail party metaphor.

The Kita ze Inbou! crew revive their podcast but in written form. In general, I also prefer text over audio; even a tl:dr post can be quickly skimmed for points of interest (especially if it uses topic sentences and the standard 4-5 sentence paragraph construction technique*); in contrast, wrt audio, I find it much more difficult to do so. That said, I’ll always remember the Anime Nano podcasts especially the one (which one?) where Hung suggested that jp was gay and, with hindsight, was proven wrong.

* This is the topic sentence. The second sentence elaborates on the main idea of the topic sentence. The third sentence provides an example to support the development of this paragraph’s topic. The fourth sentence is often used for preventing sentences from becoming so long that the reader forgets what I was writing about at the start by the end of the sentence. The concluding sentence wraps up the paragraph; in the context of a longer post, it is also often used to tie the paragraph to the section or post as a whole and to prepare the reader for the next paragraph.