The Next 12 Days of Christmas and the Not so Secret Santa Projects

HO HO HO!

It's that time of year again! Anime bloggers all around will be participating in the fun 12 Days of Christmas project where we remember 12 things that inspired us greatly over the last year. This will be my 3rd year taking part in this so I plan on following the format I did last year inspired by the awesome Desu ex Machina whom gives us those wonderful Anime Power Rankings posts each week so check those out! I've already thought up all my ideas for the 12 Days of Christmas project because while my wrist is still quite painful to use I just couldn't not participate this year since I feel that this is one of those fun things that I started off with when I first started blogging 2 years ago. ^__^ So I figured if I start writing them early enough I should be able to get them done on time and not injure my wrist further. Look forward to them starting on December 14th going straight till the 25th!

Next we have Reverse Thieves doing their Secret Santa Project again this year. Third year running to my knowledge. I was very new the first year so had no idea about this project (hilariously enough found out about the 12 Days one though ) and last year I didn't notice the initial sign up post until people were tweeting about their choices on twitter. This year I vowed to pay attention around October and sign up! YAY I DID! I got e-mailed my 3 choices from my Secret Santa through the Thieves and was rather disappointed with my choices honestly. 2 were shows I had already seen (which kinda defeats the purpose of writing a review for said anime imo) so I was really only left with one choice. Glass Mask will be watched (urg...) and 2 reviews will be coming out starting on the 24th (1984 version) and the 25th (2005 version) which was the actual pick of my Secret Santa. I might do a post on the OVA that came out in 1998 as a Snack of the Week post but we'll see if it can be watched without knowing anything else about the series.

Anime-Planet is also hosting a fun Secret Santa this year that I have decided to join. I don't know if I'll bother posting about it on here because I dunno when we have to watch our anime by, but if it's something I can manage I certainly will put up a review of the lucky anime I get. Others should join too if they have AP accounts! ^__^

Always wanting to give more and more to my blog readers, (I've kinda slacked this year posting wise I think...) I've decided to give the Not so Secret Santa Project a go again this year. YAY more review goodness! I asked on my Formspring a simple question to all: "Is there an anime I haven't see that you really think I should watch ASAP? Watched List <- for your convenience ", and I received many wonderful responses! So I'll be taking some of the answers from there along with a special one that started a pretty fun twitter conversation. Who and which anime they have chosen will be a secret until I start publishing the reviews yet again this year. I bet most have forgotten that they gave these suggestions to me so hopefully they will be surprised. The reviews will start on December 19th and run straight till the 25th.

And because I like the end of year tradition I started when I first started up this blog, I shall once again be doing a review of all anime that aired this year in 4 separate seasonal posts starting on the 28th and ending on the 31st.

Hope you are looking forward to the December posting madness coming up! All Pictures in this post were done by my favourite artist matataku.

~A Look at Anime to Come~ Winter 2012

There is only one anime everyone needs to concern themselves with coming up in winter 2012.

 Poyopoyo Kansatsu Nikki!

That is all...

Seriously though I'm also looking forward to a grand total of 5 other anime that will be airing. Another (Looks interesting), Brave10 (Could be good), Daily Lives of High School Boys (Because I'll need something to fill the Kimi to Boku void),  Mouretsu Pirates (Fuck yeah!), and Season 4 of Natsume Yuujinchou!

There's also an awesome OVA adaptation of one of my all time favourite manga coming out sometime in February (hopefully) called Gyo. It kicks ass and everyone should be excited for it. GASHUNK!

Two Years of Blogging Complete!

So yeah here we are at year 2! wooooo

Picture done by rezi

I was going to do a much larger post for this but I have injured my wrist and shouldn't even be typing this. I hope it gets better soon so I'll be putting everything on hold blog wise for a bit longer to let my wrist heal as quickly as possible. I wanted to start the Toriko episodic posts up again next week but that again will have to be pushed back till I'm better and of course the Chibi Devi! posts will be on hold as well.

Picture done by gabaisuito-n

I will mention, (since I made people take a look at this post anyway) that I'll be bringing back my "365 Days" project next year! This time it's going to be titled: 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms 2012. 366 because next year is a leap year! I haven't fully thought out much of how these posts will take form yet but you can be sure that they will be fun and hopefully interesting. I've already created a few charts of anime school uniforms and I'll be showing those for every 30 uniforms that pass throughout the year in a sum up post.

Oh those adorable Kimi to Boku boys~

So look forward to another awesome year from Oishii Anime and thanks for reading even though the posting has been lacking lately.

Catch Up with FALL! January 15-16 Anime-Planet’s Monthly Marathon

It's that time for another Monthly Marathon Event called Catch Up, with Anime-Planet hosted by me. Click on the image below to see the anime list. It's all Fall 2010 anime so if you haven't watched everything you wanted to now is the perfect time to do it as there will be people around to chat with!

I've been hosting these events over on Anime-Planet for a whole year now and I gotta say it's been a blast. If you haven't checked out Anime-Planet in general you should as it is always growing! It's a great place to keep all your watched, watching, etc anime in check so you always know what you are doing with each show you watch. You can love and hate anime characters and even voice actors. New features and improvements are added pretty often and it generally doesn't take that long for a minor request to be filled. The newest feature is anime badges which are similar to X-box ones that you can unlock with certain anime that are watched or other random accomplishments. Tis all very fun stuff and more of those are going to be added soon. If you are the winner of this event you'll even win one!

Happy viewing!

Happy New Year and Look! More Anime Resolutions

First of all Happy New Year!

Picture by mushoku no hourousha

I spent my new years eve countdown in a house with lots of friends somewhere in Vermont. We stayed there for 5 days and had a lot of fun. While there I didn't think about anime or blogging very much and I have now returned ready to face the new year with some fun goals. I have some personal goals in here again along with my lovely anime blogging ones. Last year I did this as well and I'm happy to say I pretty much have completed everything on the Anime side of the goals list. I do still have Gundam Seed and Chrono Crusade to finish off but they are slow watches because I've been buddy group watching them. The only goal I flat out failed was reading manga that wasn't just One Shots. It's really hard for me to sit down and read I guess which is hilarious considering watching anime is basically reading!

One thing I would like to talk about while I got your attention is my 365 Days of Anime Characters posts. They are complete now and I seriously had a lot of fun doing it. I hope everyone had fun reading them even if I choose a character from a show you haven't seen. The goal was to make some lesser known series more known or to at least have people say to me "I'm gonna check this out, thanks!" I got quite a few of those responses which pleased me very much. I won't be continuing this project this year but I might bring it back again in 2012 or later. (Don't hold me to that though haha.) So instead, in the next week or so I'll be starting a new series that will be only once a week. I don't have a name for this project yet but it'll probably be along the lines of chii's Movie Pick or something like that. So look forward to it. If you have a movie suggestion leave a comment and I'll add it to my list! Once again, THANK YOU for reading the Anime Character Series!

Here's my goals for 2011!

Picture done by shion (kizuro)

Anime:

1. Read more manga (not just one shots)
2. Watch all anime that starts airing in 2011 (some exceptions apply)
3. Watch the titles I have not seen on Digiboy's top 100 list
4. Watch the straggler anime I still haven't finished from 2009 to present
5. Make more crazy top whatever anime lists
6. Instead of just reading everyones blog posts actually comment on them more
7. Attack Shinmaru and Prede's Anime-Planet lists and watch all that they have that I haven't
8. Watch those really popular shows I have been putting off for some reason
9. Pick ONE show from each season and episodically blog it (hopefully keep it to 12-13 episodes)

Suggestions for which shows to blog each season will be most appreciated! Level E is in the lead so far for Winter.

List of anime on Digiboy's list I will watch:

1. Pani Poni Dash
2. Kyouran Kazoku Nikki
3. Darker Than Black*
4. Bamboo Blade
5. Kamichu
6. Neo Ranga*
7. Genshiken*
8. The SoulTaker

* means I'm looking forward to it and was going to watch this year anyway

List of popular shows I will watch plus super long ones:

1. Blood+
2. Ergo Proxy*
3. Great Teacher Onizuka*
4. History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi*
5. Nana*
6. Shakugan no Shana
7. Da Capo
8. Zero no Tsukaima
9. Negima!?
10. Ghost in the Shell
11. Tsubasa Chronicle
12. XXXHOLiC*
13. Lupin III*
14. Hajime no Ippo
15. City Hunter
16. Touch
17. Yu Yu Hakusho*
18. Saint Seiya*
19. Maison Ikkoku
20. Black Jack
21. Saint Seiya*
22. Mazinger Z*
23. Prince of Tennis
24. Fist of the North Star*
25. Kyo Kara Maoh*

* means I'm looking forward to it

If anyone has suggestions for other possible popular stuff that I haven't already seen just leave a comment. This obviously isn't a complete list but I thought 25 titles up there were good enough for the moment off the top of my head.

Personal:

1. Continue Pokemon Workout to loose that weight
2. Try to get into a proper routine
3. Still figure out more ways to make money working from home
4. Try to get in better health so I'm able to get a job (STILL not too sure how to handle this one)
5. BE HAPPY

Picture done by zerorange

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