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One key thing I learned during the last year was to never announce plans to do anything because ultimately I never follow through with them. Off the top of head I can recall saying I’d review Eva 2.22, Wings of Honneamise, and Guin Saga. I have excuses for most of those though. I didn’t bother with Eva 2.22 because everyone’s reviewed it, and it’s not like I had a new radical point of view on the movie so I didn’t bother. Guin Saga ended up not being reviewed because I never actually finished watching the first set. I’m pretty sure I got through the first disc and then got distracted by something and never finished it. I’ll hopefully go back and watch it at some point, though subtitled this time because Sentai’s dub isn’t exactly great.

Anyway, here’s some stuff I have plans for that I will hopefully follow through on this time:

1. A review of Mardock Scramble: The First Compression. I’m fairly certain I can get this done considering I already wrote like 1/4 of the review. In November. Pretty sure I’ll have to watch it again to finish the review.
2. A post about Skyward Sword. Not actually a review, because I don’t see the point of reviewing it. It’s pretty much just like every other Zelda game so it’s not hard to figure out if you’ll like it or not. The post will basically just be a list of things that annoyed the hell out of me while playing it.
3. A super top secret post that involves a lot of stat gathering and analyzing. Though it’s not really a secret. I’m basically just looking at the sales of anime DVD/BDs in Japan from 2000 – 2010 and tallying how many series flopped, broke even, had moderate success, and had great success, and then a bunch of hypothesizing and whatnot based on that info. I started this in November and then got distracted by university related stuff.
4. Try to cover more than like one show during the First Impressions. In my defense I only cover a few because most of the shows leave me completely meh. And it’s hard to write about something that’s just meh. Also I’m setting myself up for failure because the Winter season is next and it looks kind of dire. There’s one show I’m vaguely interested in and a bunch of crap I couldn’t care about if I tried.
5. Try to write a review more than once every three months. Because that’s just terrible really.

I should also probably put something about making a half-assed attempt to comment on other people’s blogs and engage in the community or whatever but that’s too much work. I’ll just continue sitting in my corner thank you very much.

In a little less than five hours 2011 will come to an end and 2012 will start.  2011 has been an interesting year for me as a whole at least anime wise.  Joining this site as a writer was the biggest thing for me this year and I could get my thoughts and reviews out to more people.  So next year should be a lot different right?  Well I sure as hell hope so.  So what can you expect from me for next year.

First, you can expect to see more reviews from me next year.  While my next review is up to the fans for me to do, I have two other shows that I plan to review for January.  I also plan on doing more reviews for longer running shows instead of always just doing 12 and 13 episode shows all the time.  Now that I own a Roku I do intend to review shows that are streaming on sites such as Hulu and CrunchyRoll.

Second, since I have many opinions I would like to do more opinion articles on anime fandom and topics in anime in general.

Third, I have some ideas for articles that I will attempt to try next year in order to do something different.  I have a few ideas in my head but I need plan them out and get some prototypes worked out before I upload them to the site.

So everyone have a great New Years and see you next year.