I utterly forgot that November is the anniversary month of this weblog. I assume I used to be sure to do that ultimately after 17 years, although the tumultuous nature of each November and December (not to mention everything of 2024) made it even much less of a shock.
From what anime has instructed me, that is the everlasting 12 months. When you attain this milestone, you’re 17 endlessly (otherwise you enter “17, Season 2,” as per one Houshou Marine). So right here we’re, the place Ogiue Maniax isn’t fairly capable of vote, however it’s nonetheless insisting that it’s virtually an grownup.
I’m making all of the jokes that we’ve seen from anime and otaku tradition, however once I look again on how far I’ve come writing right here, there’s gotta be one factor above all else that marks how far I’ve come: I acquired to interview Inoue Kikuko, the mom of the Everlasting 17 motion. How wild is that?!
However so long as I’ve gone, I nonetheless discover the identification of Ogiue Maniax to be perpetually in flux. An enormous half is that yearly I discover myself with new concepts, new obligations, and the attention that my perspective merely has to be completely different from once I began. That’s to not say that I contemplate myself a traitor to the values and inspirations that prompted me to begin an anime weblog within the first place, however I inevitably must method it with a special power.
In a means, persevering with to jot down about anime on this style is a type of Everlasting 17 angle in itself. On the identical time, who the hell blogs anymore? It’s the area of weirdos like me who’ve stubbornly refused to change mediums (this isn’t a foul factor). But, given the place media as an entire has come and gone, I’m wondering if youthful individuals will rediscover the distinctive joys of writing as a solution to escape a number of the issues they get pleasure from much less.
Running a blog’s enjoyable, everybody!
