2007: The Fox News reportage on 4chan (hackers on steroids), Rickrolling being conceived as a meme and Gurren Lagann, Lucky Star, Clannad, Kaiji, Kodomo no Jikan, Baccano, Minami-ke, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Moetan, Potemayo, School Days, Bokurano, Claymore, Nodame Cantabile, Darker than Black, Gundam 00, Devil May Cry, Denno Coil, Mononoke, 5cm per second, Kara no Kyoukai, Eva 1.0 and Hidamari Sketch airing. Gurren Lagann was huge on /b/ at the time with the ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER memes and stuff. Katawa Shoujo was also apparently conceived as an idea on /a/ in this year. This is when I started using imageboards. I can't go back further than this.

2008: The channology crap, the creation of /jp/ as the sewed off conjoined twin of /a/, GEASS SUNDAYS, Spice and Wolf, Rosario + Vampire, To Love Ru, Kannagi, Toradora, Chi's Sweet Home, Strike Witches, Hyakko, Soul Eater, Jigoku Shoujo, Chaos;Head, Ga-Rei-Zero, xxxHOLiC, Detroit Metal City, Kissxsis, Macross Frontier, Gurren Lagann movie and Index airing. This is when I first started using /a/.

2009: The Boxxy shit on /b/, Bakemonogatari, Umineko, Railgun, Redline, K-ON, Saki, Sengoku Basara, Kimi ni Todoke, Maria Holic, Sora no Otoshimono, Seiken no Blacksmith (the infamous katana gif), Kämpfer, Nyan Koi, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Fairy Tail, FMAB, Hetalia, Redline, Gurren Lagann movie, KnK 7, Eva 2.0 and Haruhi S2 airing. Also the Lanced Jack/Taiga mass shitposting on /a/ and /v/ which culminated in moot changing everyone's names to Lanced Jack and Taiga on /a/ and leaking Lanced Jack's tripcode. Very chaotic year.

2010: Nothing special happens that I can recall. Oreimo, Amagami SS, Angel Beats, Durara, Soremachi, Nyaruko, Arawaka, Seitokai Yakuindomo, Panty & Stocking, Ika Musume, Shiru Sekai, Sora no Woto, Bakuman, Tatami Galaxy, Katanagatari, Heroman, Shiki, Yosuga no Sora, Kiss×sis, Highschool of the Dead, Mitsudomoe, Heartcatch Precure, Milky Holmes, Eden of the East and Haruhi movie airs. Boring year.

2011: Madoka, Yuru Yuri, Nichijou, Usagi Drop, Steins;Gate, Fate/Zero, Carnival Phantasm, Deadman Wonderland, Mirai Nikki, Kaiji S2, Denpa Onna, Hanasaku Iroha, Hyouge Mono, Chihayafuru, Gosick, Guilty Crown, Penguindrum, Haganai, [email protected], Anohana, Kore wa Zombie, Dog Days, Majikoi, Fate UBW movie and Infinite Stratos airing and Watamote becoming popular on /a/ and /v/, perhaps resulting in the anime adaptation later. Also, galo sengen, fukkireta, constanza.jpgPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Seeing the display of magical power recently in this anime has me wondering how the topic of magic itself will be addressed as Myne ages and learns to wield it more efficiently. The anime thus far has gone to great lengths to avoid becoming a magic battle shounen so I don't see it becoming the norm, but it most certainly has to be addressed given how powerful of a tool it has proven to be. However, I think that as long as it doesn't lose sight of making slow progress towards mass literacy and somewhat modern printing I'll enjoy the ride it takes me along, since the strength of the characters still has yet to waiver.

Those are my thoughts on Honzuki so far, what does kissu think? Are you guys enjoying it?

Are you capable of enjoying the silence?

How do you heal yourself from paranoia caused by consumption of scary media?

If people are perfectly capable of restoring footage like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu9HhYv0C7E to 4k becuase it was shot on film, and tons of old movie have seen amazing remasters because of this, why is it that anime seems to be sorely lacking? There's certainly a good portion of older anime that was certainly recorded on film, and yet their BD releases see only crappy upscales of whatever they aired on TV with. It's a real disappointment to see this occur and feels only like sheer laziness to not make a proper remaster, why does Japan do this so often?

Do you like it when anime has references to other works in it? I like it when it's a relatively obvious like this and: >>>/jp/34173 but not if it's about some Japanese book/novel I'm never going to read in my life.

Dance Dance Danseur and Paripi Koumei are spreading awareness of a style of bullying that isn't as blatant as defacing your desk, beating you up, or spreading vicious rumors. It's badly and loudly pretending to be friendly, which implies the victim is socially inept and the bullies aren't doing anything wrong. Even though I view incorporating bullying as a cheap way of playing with the viewer's emotions and developing characters, I'm willing to put up with this new type of bullying in anime because it hasn't entered mainstream awareness yet and needs to.

Going to dump the new Fujimoto Oneshot if anyone is interested in reading it here. I was apprehensive of doing it at first because the person who dumped DDDDD had to delete it later to free up server space, but it shouldn't be a problem in this case as the whole thing is only 35mb long.

i've seen dedicated drawthreads and writethreads here, but never once saw a music creation thread. considering you can post sound files here i wonder why it happens, because i did see several posters here said they made music. is it because many consider the stuffs they make have no merit to be posted? or because many have some musician profiles that they want no connection to this place...?
anyway, post some musics you made!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-UN6q_AcCI

Apparently EA is switching over to using Unreal 5 as its main engine, and my question is, is it really that good? What makes this one so special that everyone seems to love it?

How often do you use phones? Do you post on imageboards using them?

I use mine so little that I lose the number most of the time. I find it very annoying to type on them too. It's something I'm not very used to yet.

I hope the James Webb telescope breaks when they try to launch it, I don't care about the beginning of the universe and it would be funny to see how mad those nerds would get.

Comedy is going to become uncool in the future. People will want super serious works and jokes will be seen as childish and stupid. Norms need to laugh now while it's still socially acceptable.

Drinking to ring in the new month! It's still early enough for that probably I think

There are people in a NEET phase or in a hikki phase but have you ever gone through an extended phase of being offline, possibly while staying at home? Tell me about your experiences.