Every “season preview” is an experiment for me. Experiment in styles and formats. For a long time, I tried to highlight key bits of information. For this season I’ve decided to take a complete 180, go barebones and focus on entertainment – or what I hope is entertainment. This is basically just an edited conversation [...]
Spring was a darn good season. One of the better ones in recent memory. Unfortunately, summer tends to get a lot more dregs. This is all a conspiracy by the NHK to force hikikomori to get outside and meet with their friends and fight over ghost girls! Damn those bureaucrats!
Ok, spring preview. This is typically my soapbox to bitch about how it’s incredibly late, how putting it together is a pain in the ass, and how the new season is going to suck. But… hey, baseball has begun so might as well kick back and enjoy. Plus, the new season doesn’t look that bad. [...]
After much consternation and soul searching about whether another preview post is even worth the effort, the season preview is back. I realized the season preview is not about the info itself, it’s not even about my opinions. For me, it’s about getting the chance to think about how to design the post – deciding [...]
It seems season preview posts are happening earlier and earlier these days. By the time the actual season rolls around, it’s like you gotta root through ancient history to remember what was what. Meanwhile, I’ve been doing the previews later and later. It’s at the cost of comments, but it seems to make sense to [...]
My new thing is being late on everything. Sadly this will probably continue until I can stop wasting my time looking for a new job. Man, you want to talk about a circle jerk. But I digress. Source
Spring has arrived… That means sakura blossoms and zettai ryouiki. Ahhhh. Oh yeah, and I guess a new anime season too. I wonder if there’s a correlation. Source
Ok, I have to get this post out the door, I’ve already spent way too much time already tweaking code. I’m not happy with it, because I had grander design plans in mind. But I eventually cut out 90% of the work I originally did, because I couldn’t get things to look and function perfectly. [...]
I really hate HTML tables. 75% of the time spent on this post was messing with table code. I’m thinking I should format this differently next time around. This fall seems to be the season for uninspired sequels. A good third of the season consists of sequels – of mostly crappy shows. It boggles my [...]
My only goal for my summer preview was to do a better job than I did with the winter preview, in which I skipped mention of certain shows that I ended up watching anyway, clearly showing my lack of prophetic skills. Thankfully I set the bar pretty low then. If you have any thoughts for [...]
