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May 31, 2005

10,000 Hits!

I’m pleased to see that I’ve reached the landmark of 10,000 hits today. While this might not be such a big number for many websites out there, I find it to be quite an accomplishment for my first two months of operation. I would like to just thank the following for all their support in this very brief time.

I always have to start off with Matt. Forget JASCII, this guy is the king of the anime blogging community! His site serves as the town hall for the other bloggers to gather and talk. If you’re good enough to make it into one of his posts, you’ll see a lot of traffic brought to your site from him. And now that he’s going into producing fansubs himself, he brings a whole other group of anime fans interested in the stuff we blog.

Also, thanks to Mina for the fun exchanges we have; Satoshi for the comments and those funny comics I like reading; abq for keeping me up-to-date and many series that I can’t watch; Token Asian for talking about anime in Bethlehem, PA; and to all the other bloggers who link to me on their site.

But while I’m on the subject of Bethlehem, PA, thanks to all my (former) club members like Alex and Brad who visit my site and leave interesting (and sometimes incomprehensible) comments to my posts.

And while they’ll never read this, thanks to Anime News Network and Manga Jouhou for picking up one of my posts and bringing in a tenth of my total visits in one day! Hopefully I can supply more exclusive information for these guys in the future.

Also, thanks to all the people who google such things as “nude anime pix” and “kawaii lolicon sex girls” and were horribly directed to my site. It brings me a lot of laughter to see that. :-P

And last, and most certainly not least, thanks to my lovely girlfriend who takes the time to read through my ranting and helps me correct the many typos I make while writing. Because I really want to improve the quality of this site for everyone, I’m asking her to become my official editor. So from this post on, expect to see better looking articles and reviews that will be a lot easier for you to read.

And if you have any suggestions on what you would like to see more of on the site or how I might improve on it, please leave a comment to any of my posts or email me thescott18 “at” gmail “dot” com. While things might be dying down for the summer, I hope to reach to over 20,000 by the time school starts again!

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