Okay, the last post I ever wrote was the opening to the Summer. It’s Fall now. Yes, this is me. Get used to it.

But as life goes on, so does this blog, and ever do I find myself floating back, itching to write down a thought or two. It seems that new seasonal offerings always spark a sort of interest to talk about something, even if the prospects of the upcoming season aren’t exactly all too exciting, so to speak.

But there’s a lot to talk about. For one, I was able to watch Kingsglaive about a month ago when it premiered in the cinemas. There’s a whole lot of discussion going around as to whether or not Final Fantasy XV will truly be worth the time (and effort), but fans are telling critics otherwise.

Back to the seasonal offerings, I only have about five shows I’m interested in, three of which are actually sequels. I’m also planning to do a rundown of the (massive) season that I sort of trudged through, which although was not as exciting as it should have been (which was to be expected) was nonetheless entertaining to a certain extent.

But why the sudden desire to write again? Well, most of it probably boils down to the fact that I’m on sabbatical in the United Kingdom. So far, the UK is turning out to be a very lovely place. The weather isn’t as disagreeable as many people make it sound, and the people are ridiculously friendly.

So yeah, I’m gonna try this one more time with the expectations of things blowing up in my face (as they always have). Yeehaw!

Okay, I’ll admit it. I think I bit off a bit more than I could chew.

This month wasn’t a really good month for me. To be more specific, it hasn’t been a very good season. But it has nothing to do with the shows — seriously, this is a VERY good season. Heck, I can’t remember for the life of me a Spring season that actually did this good for the past few years. What’s been bumming me out this season is the fact that NONE of my articles have been published on Crunchyroll due to staff issues. Complicating things further are my RL duties, which included a couple trips abroad for conventions, etc.

I know I wanted to be a writer on the side, but the demands were a little too much for the amount of content I set myself out to achieve — Weekly anime in review (totaling to almost 10 different shows), two regular shows on a weekly review basis, one or two shows for a mid-season review, a pre-season preview, a mid-season status report (which didn’t materialize), and an upcoming end-season final impression.

Seriously, writers out there — how the hell do you do it?

But I don’t want to give up. I guess I forgot that this isn’t a job. It’s a hobby. As much as I want to put down my thoughts on shows, I got too caught up in the necessity of bringing out as much content in a timely fashion. The result was that it kinda backfired — I burned myself out and ended up not caring.

But now I do care and I want to do myself a favor and make this fun for me, as well. So yeah, let’s try this one more time. I’ll dumb down my expectations and just gun for a weekly snapshot with some random thoughts whenever I feel like it. Yeah, that sounds reasonable.

Yeah, I’ve been quiet the past week.

I was actually in a conference on Animal Assisted Interventions at the University of Denver, and man was it a pretty cool experience. There’s more to animals than just hugging them for feels, and the science is getting pretty cool. As a scientist, myself, I was very impressed with what they had to show us.

But yeah, because of that, I have a huge backlog of shows to watch. I’m kinda looking forward to it, but the timing couldn’t have been any worse. It’s mid season, and quite a lot of writers are starting to compile their thoughts on the season thus far – and quite surprisingly, it’s turning out to be very, very good.

Anyway, the watch list is a good 10 shows thick, so I certainly have a lot of “work” to do. That and the fact that I’m leaving for Singapore at the tail-end of this month for another scientific conference. Hopefully, I can get some reviews up, but they’ll likely be condensed reviews to make up for time.

So no, I’m not dead. Far from it, I’m itching to watch me some good animu.

Whew, that took a lot of effort.

I’m not alien to WordPress, but I never really had to do everything from scratch all by myself. In my old translation group, we used to have a guy who specializes in CSS and HTML5, so I usually just described what it was I wanted, and he’d regurgitate some kind of monstrosity that could be summed up as a “blog”.

But whatever. All I need is a platform to throw my thoughts into – and this is it. It’s WordPress.COM, but I think I can manage with a couple aesthetic tweaks here and there. It’s functional, so that’s all that matters.

ANYWAY.

The only people who are gonna read this are probably my friends who are aware of this project. Yes, I want to talk about more things aside from those that I’m usually restricted to in Crunchyroll. Not that it’s restricting to begin with, rather, I find myself wanting. Recently, I’ve been frequenting the blogs of many other writers out there, and it looks like a great way to gain experience. Needless to say, I felt like something was nagging me to start my own blog. I dunno, this might work or it might not. Who cares. I just want to share my thoughts on something I’m very passionate about.

So enough words and on to the previews. By the way, follow me on twitter and share this blog please! I needs supports!