Results wise, I tip my hat to Interest of Psychopaths, Riyoga’s Ramblings, All About Manga, Spark Blog, One Minute Dusk, The Neighbor’s Club and Mon0r, while best of luck to Lemmas and Submodalities, Marth’s Anime Blog, Oishii Anime, Seventh Style, Illogicalzen, A Product of Wasted Time, The Untold Story of Altair & Vega, The Otaku HQ and Abandoned Factory Anime Reviews (JJB), for the next round.

97. WanAbrar

Thoughts: I think that all team blogs should at least have an about page. Solo blogs can get away with it more, but I’m just going on the record to say that if you have an aniblog, you should probably have an about page so people know who is writing what and why. Anyways, welcome to Wan Abrar – a rather sleek-looking team blog that covers a large breadth of topics. The site is very clutter-free aside from some pop-ups that appear in the corner. They’re surprisingly unintrusive though, and they suggest other posts that are similar to the one you’re reading. Handy.

While this isn’t THE site to go to for all your gaming and figure news and reviews, the coverage is fairly regular. The site really spreads out between episodic, gaming, and figures while hitting all of the important points in each area. The episodic posts are mostly for giving an opinion of the series and whether or not you should keep watching a show or drop it. I love that they have gifs in their posts, but having that many in one posts with no still screenshots gets very distracting, very fast.

98. Behind the Nihon Review

Thoughts: Welcome to the final yellow bracket blogs on review; starting off with Behind the Nihon Review, which is a massive team blog with over fourteen different writers. That might seem like a crazy amount of writers, but they make it work somehow. I really enjoyed reading the NHRV Staff posts where two writers give their own take on the first few episodes of the newest season, complete with a short paragraph of their thoughts about the episodes and an initial impression grade. Besides quick impression posts, you can also find lots of great editorial style posts on anime. They also have a podcast where they talk about certain shows with a few of the writers and special guests here and there.

Design wise the layout is broken into two pages when you click on The Nihon Review at the top, which sends you to their main page where you can find quick links to reviews on anime, live action, manga, music, soundtracks, editorials, convention coverage and general information on the staff. I would say everything is easy to navigate and who could hate that cool Haurhi banner? Besides that page you can click on the staff blog to reach the episode reviews and podcast; they use a common color scheme of blue and white which works nicely. So overall if you enjoy listening to podcasts and reading several points of view on anime and interesting editorials; head on over to this fun team blog and check them out.

99. Silence is Golden

Thoughts: Silence is Golden is a sporadically updated blog with a lot of time between posts. Its writer, Chidori Souske, has been very busy lately which explains why. For the most part you can expect anywhere between 1 post on the slower months and 5-15 on the rarer, more active months. The blog is focused on anime reviews and first impressions, with the occasional “quick posts” (episodic posts). With that said, it’s not the most active blog around. The writing quality is very good however; it has a personal feel to it, which gives Chidori a very recognizable style. I liked the full reviews much better than the episodics though, which from what I read were quite short and had an annoying layout. (Which might be the fault of using a laptop screen to view the site.) The reviews on the other hand were VERY descriptive and enjoyable to read, I love the humorous remarks thrown in every now and then.

100. Anime Strip

Thoughts: Redy does not watch yaoi. This is blasphemy. Ehm, from his writing, it is obvious that English is not Redy’s mother tongue. I have to admit, I was confused when I read his posts and had to re-read them a few times. Even until now, there are some parts of his writings that I don’t get. But kudos to Redy for being brave to write anyway, despite of his limited knowledge of English grammar. It takes lots of courage to do that. And of course, I’m sure that his grammar will become better with time. My only advice right now is not to mix personal opinion with the summaries because it makes things more confusing.

Unlike most blogs, Anime Strip has no sidebars. It consists of only one column that looks like a… Strip. Anime Strip does have blogroll of course, and it’s located at the bottom of the page, along with some Danny Choo links. It seems that Redy is a fan of Danny Choo. The positions of the screenshots in Redy’s posts are definitely impressive. He manages to put them on random places without making them look messy, and the screenshots’ random positions are definitely comfortable for the eyes. Not to mention how Redy plays with their sizes, making them look refreshing. Also, THAT Wanko screenshot!

101. Anime Evo

Thoughts: My first impression of this site? HOLY CRAP that is one hell of a site design. The whole look of the site is amazingly well put together and even the menus look custom designed. The place is easy to navigate as well and seriously the only thing I couldn’t find was the date of when posts were released (…which would have been nice to have since the site deals with news and some of it might have been outdated) .

On to the blog itself, Anime Evo is a team blog that started towards the end of 2009. These guys seem to cover just about everything. The editorials are fun (though I don’t always agree with their opinions) and they also have stuff like recommendations and an AnoNatsu image board. …I’m sure they’ll expand it some day, but for now AnoNatsu is all they have. They cover a few episodics too, though sometimes the summarization of the episodes can get long winded and sometimes are at least twice times the length of their actual thoughts on the episode. What I was impressed by was a bit their news section. Apparently they had a contest for Fairy Tail where they actually gave out a Bluray/DVD set and manga of the series. How could you not love a site like that?

102. Shades of Grey

Thoughts: So here we have a manga blog, which seem to be few in number in the tourney compared to all the anime blogs out there! I’ve covered a few before, mostly shoujo related, so it was nice to see a manga blog with a wider variety of manga being covered. Shades of Grey have both chapter coverage and manga reviews, so you’ll probably find something you like here among the assortment of series they blog, a lot of which I noticed were shounen related. I personally enjoy Yerocha’s writing style, I read a few reviews of chapters I’ve read recently and found them very detailed, not only going over the events that took place but other things like themes and character analysis. I especially liked his post on relationships is Fairy Tail, check it out!

Design wise the blog is very common looking, nothing too special to make it stand out. I’ve heard wordpress can be pretty limited with design option, so that might be a reason! Anyway, it’s nice to look at, easy on the eyes, and has the typical wordpress navigation that I’ve come to like.

103. Mecha Guignol

Thoughts:  Next up is Mecha Guignol, a sort of a team blog, but Updatedude hasn’t posted in a while so you could just say it is more of a solo blog with Landon doing the most writing as of late. So how does Landon write his posts!? I would say all of them are really creative even the titles are interesting instead of the normal name of the series with an episode number thrown on after. Instead of the normal episodic anime review, Landon’s posts are basically his thoughts on a certain episodes like his post on Zetman. Most of his posts are wordy with less screenshots. That said I never really felt bogged down by walls of text because most of his posts are fairly short and easy to read.

Design wise, I really enjoyed the choice of color scheme with black, red and white. Everything is easy to navigate at the top with home, best series by the decade, info stuff and the great top 50 anime series of all time. Seriously check out that massive list. Other than that you can find a twitter feed and the hilarious I have a cult list for recent comments. I really enjoyed the banner with familiar mascot characters like Kyubey, Keroberos and that ferret thing from Nanoha…So, yeah stop by and read Landon’s posts on anime!

104. Daifuuku Anime Blog

Thoughts: Café Daifuuku’s gives a sweet and cheerful impression if one sees it from the outside. The walls are painted with bright colors and are decorated with colorful pictures, which I find to be cute. Those who don’t like bright colors should just go straight to the articles oven section though if they don’t want to hurt their eyes. Café Daifuuku’s plus point has got to be the position of the writers (such as butler, parfait specialist, etc.) and its unique names such as Swiss Blogroll and Week’s Specialite (consists of links to the newest articles sweets from the oven). Overall, Daifuuku is doing a fabulous job at living up to its roleplaying as a café. The banner crying little girl with her huge tears scares me though. I am serious.

Café Daifuuku has a variety of articles sweets. So far, there are four active workers in Café Daifuuku, and the three of them have different working styles, giving the episodic sweets variety. I noticed that most of their episodic sweets are thorough. The workers also have some gaming sweets and convention parfaits, not to mention the occasional dancing the workers do at times to entertain the customers. In short, Café Daifuuku has everything that’s involved with the anime world and you should pay them a visit soon.

105. Lost in America

Thoughts: You might be familiar with Guardian Enzo from Random Curiosity. He came there from this site, which he still keeps super-active. Just look at his blog archive for April alone. 97 articles, and he’s no slouch on words and interesting/detailed thoughts; he’s an episodic blogging machine! I love how his posts are formatted with text-wrapping and how he melds summaries and thoughts together in his posts; it makes the whole post an interesting read, along with a bonus gallery in the end in case you wanna save a pic.

Site design is standard. It’s a Blogger deal, but his navigation bar at the top is helpful for easy access to his E7 AO posts or any other current-running show he’s covering.

106. She’s Lost Control

Thoughts: She’s Lost Control (SLC for short) started off as a gaming blog that slowly gained enough popularity to start a forum before outright busting into the fandom of anime. There’s a separate page for each section, for those who might only be interesting in one or two particular things, which is nice. Despite starting off as a video game site, the game reviews are updates once per month or longer. You’ll mostly find all the action in the anime section and the lovely “Taskforce Moe” section. Here you will find many editorials and creative piece on issues related to moe. They’re quite well-written, so I’d suggest giving them a read!

While I like the site organization, it falls into the usual trend of being a boring layout. Everything is white and gray, and the only iota of colour on the site comes from a miniscule header image. The gaming section of the site looks a bit better, but it’s not a very inviting site from first glance overall.

107. World of Yamaguchi Hoshiko

Thoughts: An editorial blog, woo~ I love reading editorial style posts, so I’m a little biased here. After reading four posts I noticed there was a nice mixture of both reviews and editorials, both always end up being very readable lengths. I’d still have read them if they were longer anyway because I found myself really enjoying Hoshiko’s writing style. My favorite post had to be the Tamayura post, relating his/her life to the themes in the show. Hoshiko is very personable, always replies to comments, and has a good blog going. She also has posts on figures, if you’re interested.

It’s nice to see a more unique design on the blog, I’ve seen so many blogs over the month they’re all starting to look similar with the wordpress sidebar and whatnot. Hoshiko’s blog also has very easy navigation, especially with the header-bar with all the links.

108. Anipulse

Thoughts: Welcome to Anipulse, the blog of Michael King, better known as Processr. He’s mostly an episodic/season review blogger who uses the first paragraph to summarize episode events and then lets loose his opinions. He keeps his thoughts brief and concise and only uses 1 feature pic for his posts. Presentation is nice, but getting right to the point is also a plus.

Design, nothing too much to write about. it’s organized and straight-forward, rotating banners kept up-tp-date, and he does have infinite scrolling which is a plus.

109. Lower Mid-table

Thoughts: I wish I would have known about Lower Mid-Table sooner because I loved the three posts I checked out to write this review-thing and will definitely be reading in the future. EmperorJ does episodics, with the occasional other posts like editorials, and to be honest these are some of the best episodic posts I’ve read so far in the tourney. He writes with a lot of detail, subtly meshing summary with thoughts and analysis allowing the reader to recall events from the episode while at the same time taking in his thoughts and forming your own opinions on what he said. “But isn’t that what every anime blog does?” Eh, I guess, but for the most part EmperorJ’s posts really made me think about every word, instead of mindlessly skimming like a few blogs in the past had me doing.

Visually the blog just screams wordpress! I guess that’s the result of seeing SO many blogs from the tourney with wordpress designs. Not that there’s anything wrong with them or anything though. It’s just … a little plain is all.

110. Organisational Anti-Social Geniuses

Thoughts: Unlimited Link Works. No, seriously. ASG’s layout has only links, links and links. Well, not all. Their reviews section consists of three latest reviews plus some tiny pictures, and the latest post has a medium-sized picture. Oh, also that tiny banner with ASG’s abbreviation written on it (the color is pretty cool) and the writers’ avatars (“The Writers” section located at the very bottom of the page). But the rest? Links. The amount of links there gave me slight headache. The layout does get better when one enters the articles, but the homepage… Links…

Putting the links aside… Organization ASG is literally an organization since it’s big. ASG has eight writers, and some of them have their individual blogs (such as Kuuki and SubduedFangirling). Remembering the amount of writers it has, ASG covers everything that’s related to anime. Anime, manga, figures, conventions, everything! And what’s better, ASG will grow since it will always welcome volunteer writers. So for those who wants to experience aniblogging, do apply to Oganization ASG.

111. Otaku Champloo

Thoughts: Welcome to Otaku Champloo – a manga review site that’s been kicking around for almost 6 years now. On the aesthetic side of things, the site is a great hybrid between functional and stylish. It’s well-organized, and the colours are not too blinding nor too dull. It’s quite impressive that one person would still have the fire in them to blog for so long, especially about a slightly more niche aniblogging topic.

Khursten reviews manga, discusses news related to manga, and talks about manga distribution in the Philippines. Her posts are very informative, and I get the impression that Otaku Champloo serves better as a news site or source of information. Her writing just tends to lack a sense of fun or pizzazz, so it reads as a list of facts and nothing much more than that.

112. YumeState

Thoughts:  And finally we stop over at the anime blog Yume State! Another team blog with six different writers that share a love of all things anime, but what can you find here? There are full series reviews like one on Shinrei Tantei Yakumo, Ghost Hunt, Persona 4, Star driver and countless more to read! Each of these full reviews contains a few screenshots from the episode or official artwork from the series… As far as the writing goes there are three to four paragraphs to read, but I never felt bored reading them. Besides series reviews you can read some editorial style posts like this one on Toradora! I guess they recently added AMVs to their list of posts which I really enjoyed.

Design wise I liked the layout for the blog down to the banners as well. I can tell the graphic designer is skilled so they get a thumbs up from me on that part. There is even an active chatbox on the left hand side. I really like seeing chat boxes on blog as a way to allow the readers to interact with the writers, but like most blogs you can find all the useful links on the left hand side… Oh and you can turn the blog from Light Contrast or Dark Contrast! That is kind of different but awesome. Overall the design is simple to use and easy on the eyes.