About 17 months ago, I made a post about the two-year death many anime blogs fall prey to. The post has been continuously misquoted around the blogosphere by people who thought it was a proclamation of the death of anime blogging in general, when really it was just to show how many anime blogs don’t reach the 3 year mark. Those that do pass that birthday often do so in a state of semi-hibernation, only counting as alive because they average a post per month. It’s those blogs that manage to continuously update right until their 3 year birthday that have proven themselves to be in this for the long run and it takes far more for them to ever fall out of this routine. Enough significant life changes have occurred over the 3 years, showing that blogging was not just a fair-weather hobby when they had time.
I’ve finally reached my three year anniversary. I’ve proved to myself that I’m in this for the long run.
While I’ve had the occasional brief hiatus of perhaps 7-10 days when exams and deadlines loomed, the only significant hiatus I’ve ever taken was during the summer of 2009 when I had my final exams for High School (not that they’re called Final Exams or High School in Ireland, but I might as well put the words into internationally understandable lingo). In these past 3 years, I’ve moved house, moved country, changed my circle of friends, changed my education level tier, and generally had a whole load of crazy life changes. It’s not like the fire of passion continuously burned throughout those 3 years to keep me posting. There’s the occasional bout of ‘why the hell do I blog anyway‘ syndrome that crops up a few times per year. But I keep posting through this anyway, because I’m not going to overcome my melancholy by doing nothing. I force myself to write even when I don’t want to, because I know that I really do enjoy writing and that will come only back to me through writing.
I’m not special. I like to pretend I have a big opinion of myself, but the reality is I’m amazed so many people consider my stuff worth reading. I’m only 20 years old. I started watching anime mid-2007 so I don’t have a particularly vast knowledge of the medium. I’d watched less than 100 titles when I’d started blogging. I put the effort in to be funny and entertaining, along with attempting to post regularly, but it does rather surprise me how so many people turn up to read these posts. Thank you for making me feel like this stuff is worth writing. That includes you, the 95% of you that simply lurk and never post a comment. Whether you’re here specifically to disagree with me, I hope I’ve provided you with something suitably rage worthy. Whether you’re here to find new anime to watch, I hope my endless dropping at hints to watch Code Geass/Fireball/Roujin Z/Black Heaven/Code Geass/Berserk/Mushishi/Code Geass eventually spurned you on to try one of those out and enjoy it. I hope I’ve kept you amused at work or in class as you tried to stifle a muffled laugh while reading a season preview. I hope, through whatever methods you see fit, that you have found something worth reading here.
Most of all, I hope I’ve entertained you. If I’ve managed that, I’ve achieved all I ever wanted to achieve.
The Cart Driver 
Congrats, good sir. Your greatest accomplishment is spreading the wonder of terribad anime. That’s something you should put on your grave. “Scamp. Watched lots of shit anime and enjoyed it. Except Lucky Star. Fuck Lucky Star.”
Terribad FTW!! Also loved the “Retro Season Previews”.
Watching terribad has, if anything, lessened my hatred against Lucky Star. Lucky Star may have been the stuff of nightmares, but at least it didn’t actually give me nightmares.
Also yeah, I should probably do another Retro Season Preview some day….
I watched Spelunker Sensei for you. If you don’t do a terribad review or it, I will be quite offended.
Because Spelunker Sensei was painful.
Also, the opening is stuck in my head
and it’s all your fault
Congrats on 3 years on blogging, and may you have many more!
Thanks!
(these kind of replies are going to get redundant pretty soon, but fuck it, I’ll reply to everyone in this post for a change)
Congrats on the huge achievement. With one more year, you will be able to “lap” that 2 year death cycle, so that’s definitely something to look forward to 🙂
One question though, do these 3 years include the Bokutachi years?
Either way, more power for the future.
Yeah, I included the Bokutachi years. Technically, The Cart Driver is only 18 months old. But the archives go back further, which is the important part
Bokutachi was one of the first blogs I read way back. Not sure how I exactly found it, but I’ve been following ever since!
Whoo, someone who followed me since Bokutachi! You guys are few and far between these days
I’m still here Scamp-kun~
I still follow Bokutachi to this day.
And lol, Scamp is replying to everything. Guess humility isn’t the only thing that feels off in this post lmao
Congratulations!!! 3 years seem so long for blogging, and it’s really quite an incredible thing that you’re still going so strong. ^ ^
Congrats again~
Thanks! It certainly feels like a long friggin time
Three years…congratulation man, that is sure a lot of time…:P
Call me back in 2010 and then we’ll talk about a lot of time 😛
Contract? 😀
(I’m jealous of your avatar, Fealty87)
Congrats on getting over the dreaded 3 year hump. Hopefully it’s not all downhill from here on — cause I just started following anime — and this blog by extension!
While I can’t vouch for some of your less than reliable tastes, I’ll keep following your blog for recommendations so I won’t have to swim through the dreck.
Dunno what chu talkin’ bout, my tastes are totally reliable and full of quality titles 😛
Congrats 5camp. You’re only 20, f*ck I feel old and stupid now. Carry on.
Whut, I act petulant and immature on this blog all the time. Dunno how anyone could think I was older 😀
I might not entirely agree with your top 30, but one thing you’ve always managed to do Scamp, is entertain me. Combine that with our mutual fanboy feeling about Code Geass and you have my lasting respect; congrats making it to the third year mark
I’d be shocked if anyone agreed entirely with what I said, seeing as I’m quite a bit of an ass at times. But huzzah for Geass fanboying!
And here’s to many more, pal. You were one of the first bloggers I followed, and I follow you to this day, and I’ll follow you even further on.
I shall lead an army to the new blogging age!
Also congrats on starting your own blog btw. Although it will take 3 years before I acknowledge you as an equal 😛
Ah, but then it will still be three years behind, so we will gracefully defer to your seniority.
Congratulations, Scamp. I’ve known of you since you were a commenter on anime-source, and The Cart Driver was one of the first anime blogs I paid attention to when I began to step outside of review sites and into the aniblogosphere. In fact, since you also organized the Ani-blog Tourney, I could say that you are responsible for opening up the world of anime blogs to me. Thank you for that, and please continue to entertain us!
Ah, Anime Source~! That was probably the first site on the internet where I actually ‘read’ about anime, asides from straight up reviews. Admittedly it was just those big surveys you used to run, but they did lead me to watching some great series. They also led me to watching Lucky Star though, so….yeah…
Glad to be your Fairy Blogfather
I guess I’m one of those people that only lurk and never comment, but congrats on the three years of aniblogging. I hope to read many more interesting posts from you. :V
Pretty certain I recognise that avatar from the comment section before. Or maybe that’s just from twitter…
I can tell you love writing, which probably makes me come back for more. I do too but unfortunately I’m better expressing myself in my local language than in English.
You are too humble in this one. That’s so not like you. Congratulations ^_^
I can be humble too! I’m not always a walking ball of pure ego
So you’re officialy a professional blogger now. I wish I could take everyone here and visit your home for a party only to take advantage of celebrating for you.
But instead I’ll Kampai for you in here.
Heads up to my favorite blogger! quickly snatches a glass of orange juice from the kitchen
To many more years of enjoying the world of anime and blogging together!
Lets toast with our boots!
To be an official professional, I have to earn money. Which I most certainly am not doing right now…
But hey, toast with my smelly boot anyway!
Congrats, man, and please continue to be awesome. You are really making my days brighter with your blogging. Thank you very much.
Also, I somwhat thought you were older than twenty. Eh, then the age difference between us is not that big as I thought? Even if I’m still a immature, green 17. I kinda hope I’m not the youngest one here. Hey everyone, how old are you?
I’m turning 18 this August~
19
It does say my age on the About page you guys…
Glad you like mai bloggu so much though 😀
NEVER ADMITTING MY AGE, EVER D:
old fogey
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(prob not the oldest, though)
ahahaha
17
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Congrats to you!
In other news, I’m one of those self-hibernators, and the culprit is “work”. You have yet to step in that arena it seems. I hope that when you enter that phase of your life you’ll have a good balance of work, play and life.
Oh lawdy, getting a job and living a life. Such alien concepts to me
Congratiolations on still being alive!
While I don’t watch most series you blog it is quite interesting to put your view on series against another blog I read (RandomC), especially because the opinions do quite differ a lot.
It’s a nice showing of getting pro’s and negative’s about a serie.
Oh and Terribad’s good fun!
RandomC are a bit overly positive in my experience with them. Although I’ve had people tell me I’m overly negative too, but I have no idea where they get that idea from
Yeah, that’s why I read both them and your blog. When the best and worst aspects of a series get covered it makes for nicely weighing down a series.
Sometimes I dig shows they praise and you dislike and sometimes it’s the other way around, though they do indeed praise a lot. Comes with having several writers to cover each taste.
Mostly though I agree with you on Moe-ness, where some of them seem to see it as a significant other.
Oddly enough I like hearing about the most negative things, that’s why I love Zero Punctuation, which has been mentioned around here. I enjoyed games that he totally shredded, sometimes even buying them (at a discount) despite it, heh.
I only discovered Zero Punctuation earlier on this year. It was like a light shining from the sky, telling me “this is exactly what I’ve been trying to write like my whole damn life!”. Twas quite a moment
Though I’m guilty as one of the lurkers, I appreciate you keeping up with your blogging through these years. I’ve always enjoyed seeing what you have to say about various anime, whether or not I agree, and I’ve also enjoyed your recent video/audio additions.
And I’ll have to take up your incessant promotion of Code Geass one of these days… :p
geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass geass 😀
Hi wud yu pliz repli hir. Tenkz
No just kidding. Anyways, wow 3 years huh? I watched anime when I was little but only those dubbed in my country. I only started watching subbed around 2007 too you know, and my earliest memorable subbed animes where haruhi, shana and mushishi
Also I just found out about your blog when chartfag stopped making charts then you made your own and he posted about it. So yeah congrats man (btw, you’re a guy right?) and hope you continue about this stuff
Yes, I’m a guy. Wait, actually, let me check
…
Yep, still a guy
So The Cart Driver is here to stay. Good!
Can you please write more poetry for your posts? =3 I really liked that season preview where you commented on each new series with a hilariously accurate poem. Creative stuff like this puts your blog above others in terms of entertainment (stirring people up is good too XD).
Poetry is hard though! Also I’ve been too busy diversifying with videos and scripts. But hey, mebbe I’ll try it again for the next season preview 😉
Iam reading your blog for 3 days now and I like it 😛 First article i stepped over was the dialoug between you and god for guilty crown.(crapped my pants laughing)
Anyways congrats 🙂
whoo new readers whoo~!
Well, congratulations on your third year anniversary!
Like Someone Else up there, I found out about your blog when Chartfag stopped uploading charts, and I’ve been a lurker ever since.
I have to thank you for convincing me to finally watch Code Geass. I was really against any anime with giant robots in them before I started reading your blog, and now, Code Geass is my top 3 anime of all time. ^ ^
And the funny thing is, we both started blogging at about the same age, but your posts have always been more amusing to read. Well, I still haven’t reached my first year anniversary for blogging and I still have a long way to go.
Anyway, always be true to your cool, sarcastic self.
Yay, more Geass fans!
I never really liked being a chart guy, but if it got more people to read my actual posts then hurrah for that I suppose
I was also directed here through the charts~
Heh, when Chartfag stopped and he referred to this blog I started coming here as well.
Yep me too. I checked chartfag’s blog every so often, and when he stopped making charts he linked here. I came for the charts, stayed for the blog.
Once you go Scamp you don’t go back :p
Congrats on making it to the 3 year-mark~ Hope you’ll continue writing posts like you’ve always done :3
Man, you don’t want me writing posts like in my early days. Those ones really sucked
You said “defo”, ahahahaha.
Heh, these posts I’ve missed reading 😀 got something to read
Durarara!! was the first show we ‘watched together’
Is that a little creepy? God, I love Durarara!! and I love the posts you made about Durarara!!
Congrats for 3 years Scampy my dear, go do some Hetalia in commemoration.
I also began to follow his blog/stalk it because of Durarara, but I found it because of Hetalia.
Oh yeah, and Scamp should definitly do some Hetalia again. Like, blog the third season in one post or watch the dub and tell us what he thinks about it.
Wah, am I the only one who got here because of Code Geass? Which should be the most rational reason to get in here.
You mean reading my Hetalia posts didn’t count? Also you never watched Sora no Manimani? Not that the show was that good, but you missed fanboying over Hime.
oh and btw and think this is my top 3 commenters all in the one thread. Hey guys!
Oh, I remember that! What the hell was that thing even about? Star gazing clubs, right?
And girls being cute. But in an unconventional way.
Hime is cute and fluffy and no undeserving man can go near her
Ah, so she’s your waifu?
This is now a waifu claim comment string.
So I’ll just take Celty and Kotetsu and be on my way yeah?
Nonono, it’s more like I’m an overly protective father
So she’s your daughter…fu?
FUCK YOU! Mihoshi is BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of times better than Hime. Fuck. Now I do not remember if I read your posts about Sora no Manimani. Love that show, not that I will ever suggest it to anyone unless they get as enamoured with the background setting (astronomy club), the character designs and main-girl Mihoshi’s genki-ness and her voice actress.
As for Hime, she was indeed cute. But she’ll have to live with not being Ooyagi’s girlfriend (not like any of the females in the cast would be suitable to be his girlfriend).
Claiming Mihoshi is better than Hime? You have made an enemy of this blog young man
Bring it boy. You think you can beat me with your measly 20 years of life? HA! I’ll refrain from dropping too heavy a writers block on top of you out of pity!
Congratulations! Or should that be Comhghairdeas? 🙂 Keep at it, I started reading this blog from your first Hetalia post. And I’m still here, though I’ve only recently started commenting 😀
Woah, you’ve been here for a long time. Back when I was still Not Very Good At All
You’re wise beyond your years, young man. Congratulations!
(You really don’t have to reply to this. :))
Why did you make this post make you look like an ossan?
OK, I won’t reply to your comment
…oh shi-
That’s pretty hard core.
Well, keep up the good work. 🙂
…I did not want to know that…
Sometimes it’s good to face reality :’)
Congrats! Its been enjoyable to read your blog the past year and a half 🙂 Hoping for many more year!
You mean you weren’t reading those very earliest posts about Natsume Yuujinchou!?! Nooooooo!!!
I wonder if anyone is still around who read those Natsume posts
I read them, but not when you first posted them. Does that count?
Man, I bet they sucked pretty damn hard. Apart from all the shots of cyclopses. Natsume Yuujinchou sure had a lot of cyclopses
Congrats on 3 years! Keep up the good work, you’re probably my
favourite ani-blog out there (and I read a fair few).
And, yes, you’ve certainly been entertaining. Particularly with the sarcasm; I have this theory that people from Western Europe are more skilled at sarcasm than the rest of the world.
@Leah-san: No, you’re not the youngest one here. I’m sixteen. Now, time for ME to try and find somebody younger…
Am I really that sarcastic? I tend to just go tongue in cheek. Although I suppose that’s like sarcasm except being a less of a dick about it
You’re one of the more rational anime bloggers around, and I just love you for that. Congrats on doing this for three years. =)
I’ve been called many things in my life, but I don’t think I’ve ever been called ‘rational’. I guess that’s a compliment, so I shall accept it as one with grace and fortitude 🙂
I became aware of your blog about the time chartfag stopped doing charts and you unofficially took over.
As I typed that, I checked his website and found he’s still alive and kicking. Oh well, you do more than charts, and I like multiple perspectives on prospective shows to watch. Keep up the good work, mate!
None of the charts being made are made by either myself or Chartfag anymore. We both just post up ones other reliable sources have produced. On that note, there’s a brand new Fall chart just up today, with added Last Exile and Guilty Fucking Crown Yeah!!!
Also glad you like the blog 😀
Yay for charts! Always nice for a small sneak peak at what’s coming next season and marking down what I will try to watch.
(Read: will download, then put on an external hd to watch later if I ever will. Think I’ve had series unwatched for 2-3 years >_>)
Woaaah? That long?
Oh my good galoshes you have been blogging a long time.
Well then, I shall congradulate you because I think if I ever tried anime blogging, I would go for 5 months, off 5 months, repeat like I do with everything.
In the grand scheme of things, 3 years isn’t all that long. In anime blogging land, it’s a long friggin time.
also lol galoshes XD
Yes~!
In other words, anime blogging land is very small in the grand scheme of things….
Galoshes, it is my favorite word. xD
Doesn’t sound small, just sounds short-lived. Which is bad. It obviously means Scamp is going to be short-lived if he keeps up the anime-blogging (you better keep it up you bastard), so worry now!
I understand the feeling of not wanting to stop writing, whether it is through blogs, fiction, or elsewhere. I’d like to believe that my warcraft blog would be able to overcome the 2-year curse, but it wasn’t so much the lack of passion for writing that was the cause, but rather a lack of passion for the subject matter itself. Since then I’ve gone on and wrote for other outlets, other blogs, and eventually settling on this anime one. I hope that I last as long as you have. Many grats, and keep up the great work!
My passion shall never die! For one, they announced the Berserk movie project will span about a decade. That alone will keep me connected to the fandom in some way
Congrats! Keep up the good work ❤
I always like visiting to see your reviews always good things to read 😀
Whoo replying to commenters when I should be writing about Steins;Gate 😀
as soon as you said ireland i started reading everything in your voice D: great success?
congrats on 3 years! i can tell that entertainment writing is your thing. what’s you major/concentration/whatever-they-call-it-in-europe anyway? maybe you should consider a career in journalism or tv writing 😀 who knows, maybe you’ll be writing the next Office ;D
your drive and commitment to continue writing is probably why everyone thinks you’re older than you actually are. most people your age and older than you don’t even have that. props, man.
Yeah I realised, a teensy bit too late to change degrees, that writing is what I really love to do. I’ve been since trying to get a foothold in journalism somehow, but it’s not an area that exactly pays well to the untrained (nor the professionals for that matter, but that’s a different story)
well, continue at what you do, perhaps expand a bit into other subjects of interest eventually, and maybe one day someone will notice you and ask for your help in writing a sitcom or something. or ask you to be the next token british (irish) correspondent in the most well-watched american late-night show…!!!
brb, fangirling.
Not part of the 95% anymore!
Congratulations even though I only read your posts occasionally. 😀
Now I’ll go back to lurking your twitter messages…
I probably spend more time on twitter than blogging nowadays anyway. Stoopid twitter 😦
Don’t they call it microblogging? That would mean you increase your time spend blogging when you spend more time on Twitter (I spend no time on Twitter, I also don’t have a blog, figures).
Congrats fella! Three years is a pretty significant milestone. I can’t remember when I started reading this blog; think it was probably Drrr!! but may have been Hetalia…..but it was sometime around about when I started blogging myself.
Anyway, I’ve always been impressed with your entertaining style of writing and the biting humour you bring to certain subjects (yay Terribad!). Here’s to many more years!
Well half my aniblogging life was taken up with Hetalia blogging, so I’m sure most people were reading me at some time during Hetalia posts
Moved country? I thought you were still in Ireland…
Ye gods, the Leaving Cert. You’re absolutely terrified of it when you’re sitting it, then find out nobody really cares about it when it’s over. Bloody madness.
Congratulations on three full years. I’ve only been here for a few months, but I hope we’ll both still be here in three more years.
I moved to England for university, although I still come back to Ireland for the holidays. Also nothing in my life has quite compared to the Leaving Cert in simple size in my life at the time. It wasn’t that I was stressed or anything. It was just so…dominating
Exactly. I mean, I just sat (and passed, I might add!) my final exams in university a few months ago. Despite the fact that I’d repeated two different years of my degree, the Leaving Cert was still a far larger song-and-dance, particularly since the LC tests three to six years worth of knowledge, whereas college exams focus mostly on the knowledge gained that year.
As a fellow Code Geass fanboy and Irishman(ok only 1/3, but still..) I just wanted to say congrats on your milestone, Scamp! You’re certainly one of the most active and entertaining aniblogs out there. I hope you keep it going so I can continue to imagine your sultry Irish accent when I read your reviews ❤
Geass fanboys are always welcomed here. Except the ones who think Lelouch is the cart driver. Seriously guys, get over yourselves!
My accent is sultry? Ooh la la, stop making me blush
looks up sultry in the online dictionary
It sure is.
Wow, congratulations 😀 Three years is pretty impressive.
Even though I’m among the 95% who lurk without leaving comments, I must check your site at least once a day. I don’t think there’s a more entertaining blog out there.
It’s weird to realise I have lurkers who are also bloggers themselves. I’m used to the idea that the most vocal folks are bloggers already. Bloggers can be lurkers too!
I’m one of those “95% of you that simply lurk and never post a comment.” I like to watch.
You are endlessly entertaining. You love what you do and we love you for doing it.
This is the main blog that I follow. Code Geass is/was my favorite series, even before I found this blog.
I could write about how awesome you are all day. Keep up the good work.
I’m 21 for people who care about age.
I could write about how awesome I am all day too! Man, we have so much in common~
Since everyone is reminiscing about the past, I shall mention that I found this blog after I looked for a reliable source to tell me about the upcoming season (2010 winter/sping maybe?).
Later I found out that you put into words exactly what my impressions about an episode/anime were so I decided to stay. Nowadays I disagree more (mostly because you don’t value voice actors at all), but this is the blog I check all the time, I can’t help it. It’s… It’s… entertaining you know.
Do I spy a Star Trek anon?
What? No, I haven’t watched Star Trek. Actually I’d like to ask what made you think I have cuz I’ve heard this before.
Romulus is the name of a planet from Star Trek.
Romulans come from Romulus.
They’re an evil sister race of the Volcans.
Volcans come from the planet Volcan.
Am I nerdy enough yet?
Romulus was the guy who founded Rome with his bro called Remus. No, you aren’t nerdy enough 😀
Remus was the name of my favorite Harry Potter character, though I’m not really that big into that.
Fuck yeah season previews! They are the posts I have the most fun writing. Although sorry mate, I will never mention the voice actors for a season preview 😛
Ummm… not only during the season previews, you never seem to (e)valu(at)e the voice actors. BTW before a season the VAs only give misconceptions, no prob there… And I forgot to say the obligatory: Congratulations on your anniversary!
One Word
“Charts”
Congratulations Scamp!, your blog is great
Congrats,
To be contrarian, I started reading The Cart Driver not because of Hetalia (boring after ~52 episodes) or Code Geass (someday I’ll actually watch this) but because of the Aniblog Tournament got me to check out unfamiliar blogs. It’s quickly become one of my absolute favorite blogs to read; I pretty much read everything you post, even about shows I don’t watch.
I hope you keep blogging for years to come and that you find something that pays while being enjoyable.
Heh, my own aniblog tournament got people to read my own blog. Talk about self-promotion, my secret is out!
I keep forgetting you’re only 20, what with the high standard of writing, charts, tourneys etc, which you’ve churned out. It’s certainly been a busy 3 years. Cheers putting the work in, so the rest of us don’t have to! 😉
Other than that, I’ll just chime in with everyone else in wishing you many congrats and high fives etc. Kudos sir, please continue to be a messiah!
Ps. you’re still wrong in claiming the magical, flying Battle-Cat wasn’t awesome. 🙂
It’s because I’m only 20 that I have the time to do all those crazy things 😉
Also argh argh argh that bloody magical flying panther
Heh, this post made me feel kind of bad for being such a disgusting lurker!
I just wanted to say thank-you for giving me some laughs in my otherwise uninspiring life! Reading your posts has convinced me to watch a lot of great shows that I wouldn’t have otherwise considered (in particular- Berserk, which I finished a few days ago!) and has allowed me to expand my knowledge on the medium I love so much!
Oh lawdy, that Berserk post is the most hopelessly fanboying post I’ve ever written. It kinda goes against what I consider to be the ideal way to recommend anime to someone. But hey, if it worked, then that’s cool too!
btw you saw me in person! That makes you the least lurkery person here
I don’t believe I’ve ever posted a comment on here before. Kind of sad, considering I enjoy your posts so much. I’ve only been reading your blog regularly for about half a year or so, but they always offer some kind of entertainment.
I’m a new blogger, and it’s hard to hear that statistics point to my blog’s death by the time it turns 2. Hearing you acknowledge that fact and make light of it in your post so long ago motivates me to push past that 2 year birthday and make blogging a true part of my life. My blog isn’t even a year old yet, but I hope I can reach three years just as you have. 🙂
Perhaps this is just my massive ego speaking here, but since I’ve written that post, I’ve noticed many people seem to be more aware of the two-year death and actively try to avoid it. Maybe the knowledge that such a bug exists is the shot required to prevent it from occurring? If that’s the case, then you have the necessary defences to help you stay clear of the two year bug!
Oh my, it has been three years, eh.
Congratulations Master Scamp,
It’s a shame really, I am only 1 year younger than you, started watching anime around the same time as you (or maybe a bit earlier, I can’t remember), and yet, I can’t post anything of significance at a significant rate.
Oh well, enough complaining, your blog is one of the few I still read on a regular basis (I need to go on a blog search someday), and I am quite grateful for the daily updates, the Steins;Gate posts, the season previews, terribad, and you know, everything else.
Everyone has their different tastes and stuff, so we don’t have to get along on everything, but me and you, we get along quite well.
But don’t misunderstand you baka, it’s n..n..not because I..l..l..l.i.ike you or anything!
Go on a blog hunt? Why not just wait for the next Aniblog Tourney!
Ooh lala, I’m a Master Scamp now? I am ok with this
Hey Scamp, congratulations! For making it pass the 3 years, and for making me feel like such a dirty lurker… so here I am, stroking the [blue?] flames that comprise your ego.
I’ve been following you since the Tsundere Cook post. As flashy as you write, your posts are always fluid and well-informed. You never push your opinion, you just present it well. I guess that’s why I check in several times a week. And while I come to be entertained, I garner quite a bit of insight on the way. Being 20 myself, I’m mighty impressed with how well you’ve done.
Oh, and I owe you my top 15, minus Haruhi [hey, freedom of religion]. So If you ever hit up anime north, there’s a cold one on me.
Keep up the good work boss
Oh great, I’ve just been compared to Kaizu from Blue Flames, haven’t I?
I really like that tsundere cook post myself, but I’m really surprised it brought in a new reader. Same with the Gods Gift to Scamp post someone earlier said they started reading me because of. Sometimes it’s strange to hear what posts brought people in.
Nuts to your Haruhi, Madoka is my god 😛
Either you write funny stuff about stupid shit, or you pretend to be stupid which results in equally funny shit. Gratz on the 3 years, now get on with that post that will make me rage. You haven’t even tried me yet.
Make you rage?
Gunbuster is awful. Princess Tutu drained my soul of all life. Hidamari Sketch is my nightmare. TWGOK is a big pile of poo. Fate Stay Night is incredibly stupid.
although I suppose that’s just all ‘pinions anyway…
I told you to try me, not repeat your usual lies. You’ve said such nonsense like “Gunbuster is awful” before. It’s more worrisome than rage worthy. I agree with FSN and TWGOK being shit. The one good thing from FSN is ‘gar’ though. And Ultimate X Works.
Fucking lol’d. It doesn’t help that I know what you sound like. I should find that Google+ comment and see if you replied.
Back in my college days (it was four years ago… ah, to be young again!), I tried starting an anime blog with a friend. I don’t think we made it past the six month mark. Still, we had some content that I was proud of, particularly a set of guidelines for hardcore otaku on choosing shows to introduce the genre to the uninitiated.
Unfortunately, my friend and I fell out of touch after a while, and getting an architecture degree is hard, so after a few years of letting the site lay dormant I ended up pulling the site down to fend off WordPress hackers. So, from somebody who couldn’t hack it, happy third blogiversary, and many happy returns!
I was about to say “4 years ago? Did wordpress even exist back then?” before realising 4 years ago is only one year before I started. Which made me suddenly feel rather old. yeesh, did not expect that
I went back and looked, and it was actually five years ago… at which point, I think, WordPress was the trendy newcomer, challengeing the established giants of Blogger and Movable Type. Anymore you can hardly click a link without landing on a WordPress site. How times have changed. Now get off my lawn!
Whenever you think you’re done for good remember that for each entry you don’t post an anime live action is created, a harem lead will continue to be indecisive, and a hetalia is derailed.
Congratulations on three years blogging about the world of anime where girls with huge eyes, un/manly man, crazy anime logic, huge machines and characters with crazy colors and wild haircuts are common. I think we all feel that same about them one way or the other.
Now I’ll let you listen to your fav bgm as you finish reading this comment.
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I, for one, thought you were younger than 20. Maybe you were at some point. Who’s keeping track anyway? Good writing is ageless.
Good writing is ageless? Tell that to my Natsume episodics…
I just read a few and they sucked.
Well that’s a bit harsh. True, but harsh…
Sorry, man! It was basically all summary. Summary that tried to be entertaining, but summary all the same.
Congratulations Scamp – on bringing out all the lurkers and guilting them into visibly boosting your popularity through commenting. Oh, and for three fantastic years of anime blogging!
So how many more years before you begin World Domination?
And why does LuffyLuffy get away with calling you “Scampy”!? You hated when I called you that!
I’m not sure he noticed…
Maybe he just ignored it? I mean, it’s not as bad as the Nostalgia Critic and his Bat Credit Card, right?
World Domination is tentatively set for 2010.
Also seriously, bugger off you lot with the Scamp-kun and Scampy stuff -_-
So no “Scamp-su desu!”?
Congratulations on the three year mark. I’m someone who mostly lurks, but I’ve ready pretty much every single entry since somewhere in your Bokutachi years and you’re pretty much the only blog I follow. Hope to see you continue your entertaining entries for a long time to come.
Ah a Hetalia avatar! Those were the days~
…I think I said the exact same thing the last time you commented
Congrats on the milestone, Scamp. It’s great for you that you’ve stuck with it and enjoyed it, and even better for us. I found you not so long ago, back when Durarara!! was airing, looking for someone blogging it that was actually interesting to read, and I’ve continued looking forward to your updates ever since.
People on twitter seem to think it was Hetalia that got most of my readers, but the reality is Durarara was a far bigger deal. Season 2 where!?!
Congratulations, and keep it up!
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now my comment looks as long as everybody else’s
Also I’ve been reading your blog for over two years.
Cheers!
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Damn you…. Managing to call out a lurker like this…. Well, I’ve lurked dozens of blogs and sites over the years and its been over a decade of anime love for me now, so this post hits close to home since NONE of the sites, groups, series I started on are around anymore…. I appreciate your efforts and understand your dedication, congratulations and thank you…. I hope you also are understanding of the fact that I’ll likely never post again…. Thank you….
A few of the sites I used to follow stopped updating, but generally I got bored of their poor updates rather than they suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth, so it hurts less when they ease off your radar. Still, I’ll be sad when the people I know from the internet stop visiting anymore. Hasn’t really happened yet, thank god.
Anywho, slightly depressing reply from me aside, hurrah for you liking mai bloggu!
It’ll probably be lost in the noise, but congratulations man. It’s a long way to go, and your writing has remained consistently great. You’re the only blog I really follow any more, keep up the great work.
Nonsense! I read every comment. Except for the spam. Fuck the spam. But you’re not spam. So hurrah for you!
I should be hating you and your posts, b/c you have no heart and questionable taste.
But most of the time your posts are hilarious and well thought out and you have great dedication and you hate moe. So I find myself coming back and read your stuff in the end anyway. 😉
Oh, and congrats for surviving 3 years!
I have a heart! It’s just locked under layers and layers of malice and ice cold stone.
Although sometimes even I question my own tastes
De-lurking to say ‘hey congratulations!’ I’ve been following you since your Bokutachi Hetalia days and it’s been a hilarious and amusing ride since then. Here’s to another three years!
Woah you really have been lurking for a long time. Think of all those times you could have commented but didn’t!
Congrats! I haven’t read you all three years, but I’ve enjoyed reading since I started.
Maybe there should be a special anniversary post for when h.n. elly started reading. 😛
It helps if I remember to change my name. ;-;
OMG real names!
We’re getting serious here
Your real name is Joe, right, Scamp?
Mine is Renana. It’s an israeli name, but I don’t have relatives there, my mum just likes weird names. I do have relatives in America though. Most people shorten it to Nani.
How about you guys? 😀 (It’s really getting personal here~)
Congrats Scamp! By the way, I really hate comments sections filled with (often) only half meant compliments and praise, and I think I’d rather commit internet suicide than adding to an abhorrent spectacle like that… I guess what I’m trying to so say that I really mean what I’m about to say: thank you for writing amusing stuff about amusing and sometimes less amusing animated series.
Congratulations!
Definitely congratulations on your 3 years of blogging.
Heh…lurker…don’t adopt 4chan lingo it puts…strange things into minds. I guess I’ve read this for a ’bout a year, always been a good read.
I like the drop at code geass.
And you sir, are quite the entertainer.
This month two years ago was the first time I read one of your blog posts. Remember your top 5 anime movies then?
5 – Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
4 – Ghost in the Shell
3 – Howl’s Moving Castle
2 – Grave of the Fireflies
1 – Akira
Innocence? What were you thinking?
Revamped top movie list!
5 – Roujin Z
4 – Lagann-hen
3 – Millennium Actress
2 – Tokyo Godfathers
1 – Akira