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If there’s any­thing around here more import­ant than my ego, I want it caught and shot now!

Zaphod Beeblebrox — Hitch­hikers Guide to the Galaxy

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Brief His­tory

Scamp is a 20 year old Irish Anime Blog­ger who hates talk­ing about him­self in the third per­son so this is the last time I’ll refer to myself like that. He I star­ted watch­ing anime the sum­mer of 2007 with Love Hina. Appar­ently enthralled by what I saw, I stormed my way through as much anime as was humanly pos­sible as quickly as pos­sible. I star­ted to fol­low anime blogs dur­ing the Spring 2008 sea­son. That spurned me on to try blog­ging myself and after a few false starts of my own, decided to join Bok­uta­chi no Blog in the Sum­mer of 2008. That was way too early for me to start blog­ging but I slogged through it any­way. I got barely any views and the com­ments were mainly from those to point out my mis­takes (usu­ally that I’ve got­ten Shaft and Clamp mixed up yet again). Either that, or to say ‘lol, nice post’ or some­thing equally use­less. But I gradu­ally improved and soon real­ised that, not only that my love of anime was not a passing fad, but that I loved writ­ing about anime. How­ever, being the egot­ist­ical prick that I am, I felt the need to move away from team blog­ging. So on Christ­mas day 2009, I star­ted The Cart Driver. Pretty cool site eh~

Why the name?

The Cart Driver is a char­ac­ter that appeared in the last epis­ode of Code Geass R2. His total screen­time amoun­ted to about 1 second and yet his appear­ance spawned off phe­nom­enal argu­ments amongst anime fan­dom. The tini­est morsel thrown out by the cre­at­ors was seized upon by those who didn’t want to believe what happened in the end­ing. He became a sym­bol of their belief. The Cart Driver may have had lim­ited time to shine in the actual anime, but it was the inter­net fan­dom that brought him to fame. The inter­net gave this char­ac­ter a new dimen­sion, which was quite an achieve­ment con­sid­er­ing he didn’t have a dimen­sion before that.

So what does the Cart Driver have to do with this blog? I’ve twis­ted its mean­ing sev­eral times to suit whatever mood I’m in at the time. It’s a sym­bol of encour­aging dis­cus­sion of anime (those who might never have got involved with for­ums before were sud­denly bat­tling it out with seasoned vet­er­ans, con­vinced their own ver­sion of events on that last epis­ode were cor­rect). I’ve also used to it sym­bol­ise the extra dimen­sion dis­cuss­ing anime can have on the actual anime itself. But mainly the reason I have the name is because I love the end­ing to Geass R2 and wanted to show my love for the series that was mainly only get­ting people shout­ing ‘LOL CODE TRAINWRECK’.

Notes

• This is an anime blog. So you won’t find any­thing to do with figurines, nendroids, dakimakuras or any other anime mer­chand­ise. Toys do not have plots.
• I will always try to credit the artist for any work.  If you have any prob­lem with your art being dis­played here then inform me and I will remove it ASAP. Which reminds me, this is the artist’s page for that awe­some Guu and Freddy image that tops this page.
• Don’t ask where you can down­load or find anime in gen­eral. Do it your­self you lazy bums.
• I encour­age you read­ers to dis­agree with me so by all means let rip with how wrong you think I am in the com­ments. The only com­ments I won’t let through are spam and the most mind­less of trolls.