Minimum Tempo

You’ve heard about it, you’ve read about it, you’ve bitched about it; heck, maybe you’ve even participated in the event. The Anime Blog Awards (brought to you by Impz of “THAT Anime Blog“, Owen S of “Cruel Angel Theses“, TheBigN of “Drastic My Anime Blog“, mellow_bunny of “mellowSPACE” and Akai of “Reinforce Network“; I was with the team in spirit on IRC) is ending nomination submissions on April 22, so if you are an anime blogger (who fit these criteria) and have not already done so, go participate it.

My nominations? Well… here we go:

Best Episodic Blog
Anime Blog ga Arimasu - http://animearimasu.animeblogger.net/
Random Curiosity - http://randomc.animeblogger.net/
Sea Slugs! Anime Blog - http://www.seaslugteam.com/

I actually read Anime Blog ga Arimasu’s and Sea Slugs’ summaries. Random Curiosity has great screen captures to use.

Best Editorial Blog
far away noe where - http://www.farawaynowhere.com/blog/
The Animanachronism - http://animanachronism.wordpress.com/
Hop Step Jump! - http://anime.jefflawson.net/

far away no where introduced me to Noe. Therefore, it is THE best blog to ever exist. The Animanachronism features amazing posts. Hop Step Jump! writes short (well, for an editorial type of blog) entries that actually say a lot; the fact that it doesn’t have WALL OF TEXT posts is good.

Best Team Blog
THAT Anime Blog - http://that.animeblogger.net/
RIUVA - http://www.riuva.com/
Borderline Hikikomori - http://cjblackwing.wordpress.com/

THAT has Impzie; how can I not nominate him? RIUVA actually has a pretty good team whose members have unique styles yet the ability to make me laugh. Borderline Hikikomori is here for the awesome duo of Crisu and CJ Blackwing (does anyone else post there?). Epic Win would have been here if 0rion and Guff got off their lazy asses and posted in March.

Best Manga Blog
Manga blogs exist?

Most Influential Blog
Danny Choo - http://www.dannychoo.com/
RIUVA - http://www.riuva.com/
Ramblings of DarkMirage - http://www.darkmirage.com/

Danny Choo is what every anime blogger wants to be: a money-making, photo-taking, figure-previewing, blogging Stormtrooper that prowls the streets of Tokyo with cute girls. RIUVA is influential because tj_han effectively spreads his faggotry everywhere. DarkMirage? I don’t know why he’s here. He’s popular though, with his 70+ comment Gundam 00 posts.

Best Dorama Blog
Didn’t have anything to really put here…

Rookie of the Year
The Animanachronism - http://animanachronism.wordpress.com/
Atarashii Prelude - http://www.atalude.net/
Borderline Hikikomori - http://cjblackwing.wordpress.com/

Atarashii Prelude is here because Shin writes uh, interesting stuff. Same with the rest. They’re also better than every other newcomer (damn you Epic Win for not showing up to the party).

Funniest Blog
Ex-Fansubber ひとり言 - http://www.minaidehazukashii.com/hinano/
RIUVA - http://www.riuva.com/
orz - http://drmchsr0.wordpress.com/

Hinano makes me laugh, RIUVA makes me laugh, and DrmChsr0… well, he’s just there.

Best Satire Blog
Ex-Fansubber ひとり言 - http://www.minaidehazukashii.com/hinano/
notdotq of the rebellion - http://not.dotq.org/
RIUVA - http://www.riuva.com/

Uhh… they do satire well… and that is why I nominated them.

Best Seiyuu-oriented Blog
j1m0ne’s blog - http://atemonai.com/blog/
seiyuu3 - http://www.seiyuu3.net/
hashihime - http://hashihime.blogspot.com/

To be honest, I don’t care about seiyuus as long as they aren’t terrible. That said, the only seiyuus I would love to meet are Hirano Aya and Chihara Minori. Aya because she’s cute and Minori because she’s beautiful. Yep. Anyway that has nothing to do with these blogs.

Most Thought-Provoking Blog
アニ・ノート - http://ani-nouto.animeblogger.net/
Omonomono - http://omonomono.com/
Cruel Angel Theses - http://omaemo.dasaku.net/

zaitcev has made me feel like crap before, so he did provoke some thought in me. Omonomono wrote this. I just threw in sat-chan here for the heck of it.

Best Blog-related Comic
Mistakes of Youth! - http://www.mistakesofyouth.com/

I think it’s pretty funny. Do you?

Best Figurine Blog
HappySoda - http://www.happysoda.com/
Moe Moe Rabu - http://www.moemoerabu.net/

Lots of pictures for both and lots of details. Good stuff; better than I’ll find anywhere else.

Best Art/Doujin/Visual Novel Blog
Ex-Fansubber ひとり言 - http://www.minaidehazukashii.com/hinano/
Mou Yamete! - NSFW (Mission to Deep Space - NSFW)

Deredere was good; I would love to buy more of Hinano’s doujinshi. Mou Yameta! is awesome… and you can go find the link yourself to discover why >_>

Best News Blog
alafista.com - http://www.alafista.com/
moetron ☆萌えトロン - http://www.moetron.com/

alafista.com has interesting and LOL articles (LOL flying umbrella into the kid’s eye) and moetron brings me all this news I don’t hear anywhere else.

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