You know back in ye olden’ days before anime blogging and Deviantart the place to go for stuff on your favorite show was: fansites. I remember when I’d be like “oh man I wanna look up my favorite Taichi x Sora from Digimon site” and you searched it up (via Excite or Yahoo of course cause there was no google - or my favorite Mamma.com) and got tons of fansites with fanfics, fanarts, screencaps, manga scans, downloads, winamp skins, wallpapers you name it.

Nowdays, I google up something all I get are blogs, youtube links, someone’s livejournal, fanfiction.net links and completely irrelevant spam. (You know one of those haruhixkyon.click.here.to.get.spammed.com/haruhixkyon/ that you click on and your screen gets filled with popups and trojans making you want to stab the mother**** who came up with this b/s in the first place.)

I mean what happened? It’s like nowdays if I wanna find a site that has some fanart of my favorite chars or pairings, I gotta go find those Japanese fanart site directories and search by category or something. Where did all the US fansite makers go? Did we all grow up or is the new thing now to slap your myspace page with said “fansite content” but in a shitty way so that no one wants to visit it in fear of crashing their browser or getting a trojan horse?

And on the topic of fandoms, this will be me and JP at Anime Boston in March:

I miss the good old days.

Based on blogs I’ve been seeing around the community a lot of bloggers appear to be new to anime. I recall even on the podcast mentioning shows and getting ?_? resonses. So I gathered a few anime shows that are pretty unheard of in hopes of promoting some of them to those of you guys who are looking for old stuff but don’t know what to check out. So let’s go down the list here with a brief summary & commentary of each. Continue Reading »