Aug8
Double Update: Another Milestone achieved & we got a new crowd to introduce! ^^
Domo Minnasan~ I bring some site updates and an introduction of the new team conducted for adding fresh blood to Metanorn.
Site Update:
We crossed that 3 MILLION HITS MILESTONE!!! We are currently at 3.14M and increasing daily of course. We hit 1 Million in October 2009 so it’s amazing that we doubled that before even a year was past (in exactly 9 months). So, thank you constant readers, lurkers, commentors for keeping up with our content.
Weekly Traffic since early Jan this year. Our traffic peaks occurred in January and Jun-July. Hopefully, we’ll keep up with the increasing trend. The bridge of shame happened in March and April when very less updates were done. We won’t let that happen again, promise… ^^;
For the new team, I never realized that the announcement put up for around 10 days would get such a humongous response at such a short span of time, but that is what really happened. Interestingly, the Evangelion picture I posted in the Team Up! portrayed three girls and two guys and that is exactly what we ended up selecting for the new blood. Coincidence, eh?! ^^
Judging Process:
The deadline for submission was 31st July, 2010 and we still got around 4 on the last day, which I let slide in because of different time zones. At first I might have done this individually but due to an overwhelming response I brought in three friends from Sekijitsu to make the process more seamless. So, every applicant should be reassured that every fact they mentioned in their application along with the review(s) submitted was evaluated and marked on the basis of English, grammar, thoughts put in, innovativeness, overall interest in the fandom and relevance to Metanorn content.
The selection process was grueling yet a very thorough one as we wanted to be sure of each and every requirement mentioned in the application procedure to be fulfilled. From the 20+ applications received, we decided to select 5 so that we can cover a blend of shows. Though, all thanks go out to the applicants for taking out the time to apply and showing interest in our site.
Shout Outs:
First one booked for the constant readers/lurkers/commentors: DOMO ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU~
Secondly, for helping me with the difficult judging, the awesome peeps of Sekijitsu, who not only assisted in making all of this possible within a week’s time but literally spent hours on discussing minute details of the screened applicants and their every attribute. Special mention of Flags, who I’ve leased off SJ and whose brain I usually pick (sorry, dude, for any hair loss I caused… xD); he has not only become a part of our team but has been helping me at the backend (like, this Type-moon pic was edited out of so many characters to fit the active authors =.=;;).
Thirdly, Bakuhasu from The DDD Cast, who advertised for authors wanted in their podcast. Check them out, they are part of our Blogroll and they talk about some awesomeoferric fandom fun.
New Authors: You would say, an odd time to hire authors. I agree with you. I should have thought about this when summer season was just dawning on us. But oh, well, RL can come around any time and it’s better to have new blood to keep things alive and that is how I came upon the new Metanorn sacri- I mean, slav-, oh seriously, TEAM! For your benefit, virtual selves of all active authors on the main pic, from left to right: Kyokai, Flags, Hoshi, Overcooled, Masu, Ryuuko and Hato-kun.
I hope you would extend your support to all of the new team members in becoming better and blogging exactly the shows you would like to follow. This is just a preparation for fall. ^^
Flags – The Know-it-all
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I come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. Okay well maybe not. I come from lots of different places; namely Ireland, Wales, England and now Canada. I’ve been an anime fan for about twice my real age and I know about as much about feelings as I do tact.
I’m into everything, well most nearly everything. Anyone who reads my post over at Sekijitsu will know that I love romance and shoujo, but I also love horror and violence. I’m a big football fan (the one where you kick a ball with your foot) and am not averse to covering a particular Cyclops slaughtering football anime.
Since my main blog is Sekijitsu I am only going to be writing random posts for now, though depending on the fall season you may see some more of me. You can consider me the Major to Kyokai’s General. Fortunately Kyokai and I are great friends. Unfortunately she became friends with me before realizing that I’m a huge sexist with no tact, but oh well she can’t do anything about it now. Muahahahaha!
Hato-kun – The Overzealous Gamer
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Yo~! I’m Hato-kun, one of the newer writers picked up by Kyokai for Metanorn! I’ve been a very active member of the World Wide Web for quite some time now, and I thought one day “Hey! It’s about time I start leaving my mark in the anime community!” And then this lovely opportunity comes up, and next thing I know, I’m popular! I’ve been writing ever since I was a kid, and I still write in some many different styles every day!
I hail from Wellington, New Zealand and I’m heavily involved in film, music and anime. I’ve also studied Japanese all throughout my school life and still continue to do so. I really love to look at films and anime in a critical way, and usually go against the norm for a lot of mainstream shows. However, I do have my moments of weakness and I do succumb to the occasional moe-blob.
I’m also a huuuuuuge gamer! I used to run my own gaming site, but due to a lot of problems, it’s been down for a while now 🙁 I’m still wanting to get it up and running! I guess that’s all there really is to know about ol’ Hato-kun! Add me on PSN or XBL (If you can find out my name! (It’s not Hato-kun :P)) and I hope that I can write some really awesome posts for you guys! Bye bye~!
Overcooled – The Karate Protégé
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I’m Overcooled~ Nice to meet you. I’m the type who is shy at first, but loosens up after time. So I’m sure you’ll get to understand everything about my personality over time. I’m completely new at blogging, but I love it because I get to share my passion of anime with others! (Ahhh…sounds so cheesy..forgive me…)
As for my anime/manga tastes, I can’t stand romance or super-shoujo anime. It makes me cringe. I prefer explosions and gore over kissing, I guess? I loovveee slow-paced psychological anime as well though. Actually, I like a lot of things, just not anything with too much mushiness. Fun fact: I am pretty much completely immune to fanservice now.
Outside of my anime obsession, I have a video game obsession (as if I wasn’t enough of a hikikomori…). I stopped playing basketball and archery, but I’m a black belt and still train at my dojo. Maybe that’s why I like watching anime…I’m such a violent person; it makes me feel like fighting XD. Sadly, you can’t do most anime moves in real life. Yes…I’ve tried…
Hoshi – The Manga Connoisseur
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Hello~! Name’s Hoshi and I’m very happy to become a writer here at Metanorn because I live in a cultural wasteland, and I find very few anime fans here in my town. What’s a hyper fangirl to do?! So I went to this glorious thing called the web and met so many awesome people to fangirl with, and now that includes all of you wonderful people here! I’ve been an anime fan since I was in middle school, almost six years now, and I’ve never stopped loving it. I’m a quiet person, but once you start talking to me about anime, or even worse mention my most FAVORITE anime ever, I’ll suddenly get extremely hyper. It’s like unleashing the ultimate fangirl beast mwuahahaha!
I’d like to call myself a manga connoisseur; I own more than 100 manga in my collection, and I’ve read tons more titles here on the web thanks to scanlation sites. Manga-buying has become a huge hobby of mine; no matter how many times my parents say what a waste of money if I finish them in twenty minutes, heh. Being such a huge manga fan, I favor manga over anime any day. ;D Other than writing, another hobby of mine is drawing, even though I’m not so talented in that department. I do have a Deviantart and add me if you like! Just email me for the username. :3
I also live a Korean and Japanese music lifestyle, other than my anime one. I got into Japanese music because of anime; I really loved anime opening songs, and one day I just went to explore the genres they had, and tada~! became a Jpop/Jrock/Visual Kei fan. I’m also a fan of Korean music, and K-dramas thanks to friends. I become extremely fangirly with those things as well<3 I’m a bit new to blogging about anime, but I’ll be trying my best, and just pouring out my anime fangirling on to the web ;D This has been Hoshi, goodbye~!
Ryuuko – The Otaku Extraordinaire
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Hey guys! I’m Ryuuko, a writer Metanorn has recently adopted! 😛 I also write for the online magazine Suite101.com, but I’m really excited and happy to be accepted on the team here! I’ve been a serious anime and manga fangirl since forever and I’m really looking forward to sharing and adding to the great community Metanorn has built up so far!
I started out with comedy, school life and slice of life series and those are still my favourites though I can easily enjoy pretty much any genre except for the really harem ones with nothing else to offer. Sorry harem fans! xD;; At the top of my <3 lists at the moment are To aru Kagaku no Railgun and Lucky Star, while my favourite manga is Ga-Rei. Apart from anime and manga I also love console rpg and pc mmo rpg gaming (I accidentally got sucked into an mmorpg for a couple of years but recently escaped). I ended up loving it too much and it morphed into a time vamp so I’ve had to let it go! ^^;
Background-wise I’m a recent graduate from the University of Auckland in New Zealand so Hato-kun and I are from the same place even though I live across the ditch in Brisbane, Australia now! My double major was in English + Film, TV and Media Studies and my future goal is to become a screenwriter! Until that dream is achieved, and hopefully even after please put up with my posts and rantings here, lol. I’ll try to make them as informative and entertaining as I can!
Masu – The Procrastinator
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I guess a good starting point for this is the fact that I was the last to turn in my “about me.” Therein lies a characteristic that, well to put plainly, defines me. I am lazy. I procrastinate. Perhaps I have my Hawaiian blood to blame, seeing as how 80% of them are bums (including me). Maybe I like to work under pressure. Or maybe, I don’t care. I’ll leave that for you guys to decide.
I’m Masu, though you all can call me Kami-sama. I’ve been into “this stuff” for a while and have been a writer even longer. It took a while, but at some point in my great existence, I put two and two together and it became ani-blogging (not four). Enter Metanorn, a site that once published an ad for writers (and a site I’ve followed for years). After some hard (read: last minute) work I found myself here, writing an “about me,” for you.
I read a lot, I watch a lot of movies, I write a lot, I listen to a lot of music, therefore I am very critical of things I watch, hear or read. And yes, I know, you damned grammar Nazis, I didn’t use parallelism correctly, deal with it. I’m into anything that has a good story and well constructed characters. This interest spans all genres and media because I believe art is art, no matter where you find it. I also enjoy deep conversations and romantic long walks on the beach.
End Note: We won’t ever be tired of thanking our readers, who make this place worthwhile for us to go bonkers with our fandom obsession. Thank you for all the support! Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu~ ^^
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The Boss lady of Metanorn, who makes it all happen. An animanga enthusiast, who watches/reads almost anything that strikes her fancy. Just beware of her Death Perception and always keep her happy. Regularly found at @KyokaiTM & #[email protected].
POWUH: Occasional (51-75) with 58 comments
Congrats on 3 million hits! That’s quite a monumental accomplishment. Loving the new
slaveswriters so far, and can’t wait to read more of everyone’s posts~POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Thank you, Mint-chan! <3 Also for keeping awake during that loooong chat for judging the applicants. xD
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
It’s Mint!! Thanks for welcoming us new… writers ;p Hope our (my) posts don’t disappoint!
POWUH: Lovely-pyon~ with 304 comments
Congratulations on the 3 million hits! Congratulations to the new authors also! I look forward to seeing your posts.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Arigatou~ for being our regular reader.
Hopefully, the new team will not disappoint. ^^
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
I’m starting to feel a bit of pressure with people actually looking forward to our posts lol. But let’s call that good pressure. Motivation!!! Muaha… I nearly let out an evil laugh there. But I restrained myself.
POWUH: iLurker with 8 comments
I’ve been reading Metanorn for about a year now but haven’t commented much (if at all; damn my laziness! xD) yet, so I figured this was good place to start. Big congratulations to all you new writers, and to all of you for achieving such an amazing milestone! I look forward to getting to know you guys and reading your posts. ^^
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
Cheers to everyone welcoming us in xD! I for one am super stoked to have my ani-blog start here and I look forward to getting to know the other readers and writers as well! >:)
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 145 comments
to be honest, i had never written a single comment on this site, but i would read it often. and look now, i’m being forced to comment because now its my job. HURR HURR.
heres to hoping we dont dissappoint! （*ã‚œãƒã‚œï¼‰ãƒŽï½ƒãƒ“ル
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
@Raph, Aww shucks. Thank you for coming out of the lurker mode. Always glad for the support. ^^
@Masu, Hoho… ^^;
POWUH: Meta Team and PreCure Mastah with 9203 comments
Welcome new people! -wave- looking forward to seeing what you all choose to review 😉 and congrats on 3million yay!
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Thanks, Fosh! Always glad of the support. ^^
POWUH: Lovely-pyon~ and Metanorn's Hime-chan~ with 371 comments
Before I say anything, tell kanzie that I miss her. <3
And woot! 3 million hits?! Damn. I must thank you, Kyo-chan, for keeping Metanorn alive since I've been following it for almost more than a year, too. Thank you always for posting. ^^
And congrats and warm welcome to the new team! Nice to see we got a good variety of authors and I will be looking forward to your posts. Hope you enjoy your time here! 😀
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Xiao-chan~ <333 I miss kanzie too. T_T I've tweeted and emailed her but I guess she's very busy in RL.
I think a special award should be given to you because you've been one of our top commentors and always so supportive! Thank you for always being there for the site. Much love~ :4:
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
On behalf of the newbies, I’d also like to thank you for your continuing support 😀 The welcome from everyone’s been awesome so far. Don’t worry I don’t feel spoiled at all haha just really excited and hoping to do you guys proud.
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 94 comments
AHA! SOooo that’s the new TEAM!!!! As the others *above* I am going to go with the cliche route of things by SAYING, congrats on reaching 3 MIL! (That’s Over 9000!!!).
Much thanks to the shoutout! Really means alot in managing a podcast that is starting out and finding it’s own listeners.
Again much love! I will support Metanorn in any way I can
Till then TRIP D’s OUT!
POWUH: Meta Team and The Mad Scientist with 5525 comments
Thank you, thank you! 3 million is such a big number that is, indeed, OVER 9000!!!! lol.
You deserve a shoutout for advertising for us! All the thanks goes to YOU for that one, no need to thank us. =D
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 94 comments
hahaha now I’m just even motivated to promote you guys more!!!!
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Baku, always welcome and buddy sites support each other so no worries. ^^
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
Over 9k?!!!!!!??! Sorry, I had to start my reply like that. Vegeta is like, my all time favourite male anime character! Thanks much for helping out in the process that got us ‘hired’ lol. I hope we can be buddies now too ;D
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Ryuu, you should check out Baku and gang in DDD podcast. They are insane! ^^
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 94 comments
haha no problem…
BTW listen DDD at your own risk…. Especially episode 8.
On the topic of EP 8, gave all of you guys a shoutout because I feel like it!!
Keep on keeping on!!
Trip D’s OUT!
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Yeah, Flags just told me and I was like so sweet of you to shout out to the new team. ^^
I think I’m going to enjoy epi8 because its all about DtB and is one of my favourites.
Also, that reminds me of “Don’t make me give up on giving up!” So, keep rockin’! xD
POWUH: iLurker with 4 comments
hope the new blood continues to put out the excellent posts that have kept me coming back
POWUH: 400-499 and Manly Russians lover with 401 comments
We’re all hoping we live up to that! We promise we’ll be awesome :sparkle
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
Seconded! We’ll all be working hard as a team for you guys!! 😀
POWUH: Novice (36-50) with 36 comments
Congratulations on the 3 million hits and the new Team.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
And thank you for being a regular commentor~! <3
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 21 comments
Masu! represent Hawaii!!!
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 145 comments
HUH! Good to see a fellow 808er. 😀 will do, hopefully, if i dont bum around too much. :33333333
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
He’s bumming around too much! ;p He’s lucky he’s cool so we’ll call him chillaxed lol (o.o)y
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 28 comments
Good luck.
Also kyokai, you must be very happy now…
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
LOL, definitely, got some support. Finally, I can be a bit lazy… :tea
POWUH: Occasional (51-75) with 74 comments
OVER MY DEAD BODY!
THE ONLY ONE ALLOWED TO BE LAZY AROUND HERE IS ME!
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
You troller, I don’t want to be this >>> :depressed but this >>> :hotbath
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
We’re trying to keep her stress level down but I think we might be adding to it instead! Ty Kyo for babysitting us 😛 I promise to grow up well!
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 28 comments
LOL XD
To keep her stress level down??
What a “beautiful” reason :pfft
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Lol! Looking forward to it~! :fufufuu
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 25 comments
Congratulations on the 3 million! =D
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
I wonder how many we can add to that number ;D
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 25 comments
One hundred million would be good ^^
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
*faints* That would take time but hey, what’s so bad in being optimistic, ne~? Thanks for the wishes, Iso-chan! ^^
POWUH: iLurker with 19 comments
GO AWESOME NEW MEMBERS! lol :runs:
Glad to see more anime info posted here then before. Looks like its gonna be some real awesome blogging posts going on from now on! Looking fwd for the legendary new typers and homemade jokes! Although i think thats…..1..2..3..4..5..6..+ kyokai… kinda alot >. :dead
POWUH: iLurker with 19 comments
omg i got cut short -.- anyway, FIGHT ON! :cheer:
don’t become this guy -> :dead
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
LOL! Gantoris, you always make me laugh! Thanks for all the support. ^^
Hopefully, we’ll be getting more content out and not be that dead guy! xD
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
We’ll definitely try to keep up the pace and quality so thanks again for everyone rooting for us! ;D I especially <3 the cheering mascot! Very nice 😛
POWUH: iLurker with 19 comments
btw rly glad that ryuuko is on the team, at last someone is serious on about the comedy genre (:
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
Lol cheers for that Gan! I’m happy I get to do the silly comedies >:) Looks like there’s no need to fight for them since everyone else has their own genres to fangirl/boy over haha.
POWUH: Beginner (20-35) with 28 comments
Ah yeah, forgot something.
New members means yo must have new banners too, isn’t it?
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Have already done many backend updates and subscription additions. Hopefully, more coming soon~
POWUH: Occasional (51-75) with 57 comments
Big congrats on 3 million. Even more impressive considering kanzeon and tsuiteru weren’t around for so long.
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
I would have to say that both of them were the ones who made this site whatever it is today. The following started from them and we got it easier. Hopefully, we would live up to the expectations and continue with the continuous growth. ^^
POWUH: iLurker with 18 comments
Oh look… someone else that refers to themselves as Kami-sama….
-waves at newcomers and returns to lurking-
8)
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Hehee, Masu would be delighted. I hope to see more of your comments. ^^
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
Ty for coming out of your lurking corner to say hi! This must be a rare occasion ;D I will bring you out again Kami-sama oh yes. Yes I will >;) Also… I will wave back 😛
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 145 comments
while im not actually the one who calls myself kami-sama its good to know that we have something in common. and now that i know of your existence, i expect to see more of you! HURR HURR.
POWUH: iLurker with 1 comments
Welcome to the new authors – I look forward to seeing all those fun posts :runs:
and hopefully they won’t be too fun where I turn around and go :Haaa? when my neighbor pops by :shock
Congrats on the 3 million milestone ~ :cheer:
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
Replies like this totally crack me up ;p I don’t know if you’re watching Seitokai but I’ll try to keep most of the H-rated jokes merely referred to haha
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
We’ll add in a NSFW notification, don’t worry. Hurray for some Yaoi/Yuri, if someone wants to cover it! ^^
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
I’ll do Yuri =O Which one do you want guys want me to do? ;D I didn’t think anyone else watched/read it but me lol
POWUH: Novice (36-50) with 48 comments
Wow three million that is a big number way to go :oha:
and congrats on the new blood
POWUH: Meta Team and Ringleader Extraordinaire~ with 6433 comments
Thank you~ Special cookie for being a regular commentor too. :4:
POWUH: Novice (36-50) with 48 comments
Hurray cookies
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 145 comments
thanks for sticking around at supporting us. oh, i think i have a motivation buff now. =3=
POWUH: iLurker with 9 comments
Kyaaa wow feels kind of exciting?
Haha I’m gonna try to be a regular reader from now on!!
😉 Congrats on 3 million!! Like, woah that’s a seriously huge number~
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
Oh yeah I’m totally excited lol. Gonna have to keep an eye out and learn the regular posters! ;D
POWUH: Metanorn Lover with 190 comments
Heyyyy congratzzz on getting 3 million hits Metanorn!
A couple of my favorites atm, from just reading their “about me”‘s, are Flags and Ryuuko.
Why?
Flags = hailing from the same country atm :-]
Ryuuko = a mention of Railgun makes me VERY biased >__<
But I of course didn't forget about the others! I look forward to reading and commenting on your posts!!
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
Thank you for the mention! Extra awesome that it was because of Railgun since I really am a total fangirl lol. If you do end up reading my posts I’m sure that fact will be confirmed 😛
POWUH: Metanorn Lover with 190 comments
hehe seems like we will get along fine in the fangirling/fanboying department. Since you mentioned Ga-rei as one of your favourites, does that mean we might see you cover Tokyo ESP in the future? :-]
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 140 comments
I love Ga-rei just… so much lol. I’d like to cover Tokyo ESP but seems like only one chap is out atm 🙁 I liked it though so yeah definitely a possibility!
POWUH: Metanorn Regular with 145 comments
maybe i should have mentioned that i like both dem seryz. =3=