So I wanted to go ahead and update this little space and let people know that I now work for Crunchyroll as a news editor on their Crunchyroll News portal.

The opportunity was offered to me by EIC Patrick Macias out of the blue, even as I was making a decent living on my site so I had to take it.

He and I have similar ideas and opinions regarding ANN and their practices, so having an opportunity to develop my craft even further, have a larger audience reading my work...

So I've decided to come back and post on this thing by posting pics of my newest camera in the Canon Rebel XTi. I got it for $150 off of Craigslist because the guy needed to shore up rent money.


It came with two...

So as some of you may have noticed, I haven't been around much.

My career has taken precedence over posting here on the forums, so much so that some of you may have been needing advice on something or have questions for me.

In that case, I suggest reaching me via email at the address in my profile, since I'm always monitoring my email box, as opposed to me logging in here at AN.

I haven't decided to abandon the community, but I'm at a point where I can't...

My catgirl research has hit an apparent plateau. I cannot find suitable anime characters to clone for additional research and I'm coming up blank on who would best embody the catgirl type.

Aika is doing well serving as my assistant and being a damn good mouse catcher, while Koshka has taken a liking to hanging off me as arm candy (when she isn't on my lap) all the while I know there are other girls who would be perfect.

Suggestions are much appreciated.

As I sit in front of my computer clearing out stories for the day, I can't help but wonder why the term Anime Journalism seems like such an anachronism to me.

A lot of anime blogs and fans hold up ANN as the model for so-called "professional anime journalism", with the organization going as far as hosting panels on how to "break in" to the field. I wasn't aware scraping news from Moon Phase, 2ch and the myriad of Japanese blogs counted as serious journalism on...