I would definitely love to see you try your hand at some visual novel reviews! Especially a thorough review of the Fate series proper. I think it's a shame that a lot of people get into the series through the flawed anime or the sequel/prequel animes rather than the original entry into the series (which I personally believe to be by far and wide the BEST entry). As always, love the site.
P.S. - looks like the link to 'Mahou Tsukai Tai!' on the Archen's corner of the site directs to an empty page.
Archen Said:
I'll have to see how it pans out time wise for other reviews.
I actually had a Mahou Tsukai Tai review a long time ago, but never re-wrote it when I re-tooled my review section. It's one of my favorite shows (still) and every time I try writing a review, I feel I don't do it justice so I never finished it. Didn't think anyone would notice, but I guess after decades that was bound to happen. O_o
Entry #302
Arcueid- the sexy male
human tourist
Thursday October 29th 2020
Fave Season: Spring
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Great site design. Crazy to think this has been worked on before I was even born. Love the reviews and unique taste in shows/manga. I've seen your fate page which is cool, and some other visual novel images like Muv-Luv and Tsukihime. Maybe you've just seen the adaptations, but It would be awesome to see reviews on the games themselves if you've played them. I'd recommend playing some Ryukishi07 titles like Higurashi and Umineko if you wanna get deeper into the genre. Anyway, thanks for maintaining the site and hope to see more stuff soon!
Archen Said:
I actually have a physical copy of Tsukihime (which I guess is rare), but I keep forgetting to play it. I thought about game reviews, but that would be pretty time consuming, and I couldn't do enough to really justify a section on it that people would want to visit. Hoping to have time for more visual novel stuff. I haven't played one since Doki Doki Literature Club.
Entry #301
tashannie- the sexy male
high elf valkyrie
Saturday October 24th 2020
Fave Season: Winter
Fave Anime: nothing in particular
Fave Manga: genshiken in first place, too many to mention in second place
this site is great archen, it's nice to see an old site owned by someone from different era, please keep this site up! also no one is too old to watch anime/read manga so please don't worry about getting too old to maintain this site lol, may god bless you and your family with good health and good life!
Entry #300
tenshi- the chaotic female
high elf ninja
Saturday October 24th 2020
Fave Season: Fall
Fave Anime: jojos
Fave Manga: abnormal kei joshi
this is a swag site
Entry #299
n1k- the chaotic male
human tourist
Saturday October 24th 2020
Fave Season: Summer
Fave Anime: might actually be Fresh Precure
Fave Manga: probably Full Metal Alchemist
Really cool site. Yeah, it looks old, but it's still stylish.Also, you have no idea how happy I am to see a working guestbook. I thought these were extinct in the wild years ago, even actively updated sites had broken guestbooks.
Archen Said:
Now that you mention it I can't recall the last guestbook I've seen that worked. Has to be over 10 years at least. This could be the last one. That would be pretty crazy.
Entry #298
Darkbloom- the notorious female
fairy valkyrie
Thursday October 22nd 2020
Fave Season: Summer
Fave Anime: Black Lagoon
Fave Manga: Shigurui
Dude this website is SICK (in the good way)
Entry #297
PriestOfPain- the infamous male
undead ninja
Thursday October 22nd 2020
Fave Season: Winter
Fave Anime: Gurren Lagann
Fave Manga: Berserk
Nice website
Entry #296
Mikey- the chaotic male
undead bishoujo
Thursday September 10th 2020
Fave Season: Fall
Fave Anime: K-On
Fave Manga: Berserk
Cute website boss. Keep it cool.
Entry #295
Dyznomia- the dashing male
undead tourist
Wednesday September 9th 2020
Fave Season: Winter
Fave Anime: The Kubikiri Cycle
Fave Manga: Hinamatsuri
I am absolutely in love with this website. I'm starting a website myself, and wanted to give it a sort of retro theme. When I came across this, I was seriously blown away. This is a life's work. It's amazing. I am so fucking impressed right now, dude. Like, this both made me so incredibly inspired, and so terribly defeated. Well fucking done.
Archen Said:
My site is something like a life's work, but in perspective it's just me dumping my time into something that accumulated into a pile of.. whatever it is. A thousand mile journey starts with the first step as they say. So get started with a website, just pace yourself and keep it fun (for yourself). Also, every retro website has under construction gifs. Only then is it a legit retro website. Good luck!
Entry #294
i think, i must- the infamous female
undead cleric
Tuesday July 7th 2020
Fave Season: Winter
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this site is so nice, i can't believe your still active-! i love finding old websites like this.
Entry #293
goated on the anime- the mysterious
Saturday June 13th 2020
Fave Season: none
Fave Anime:
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your taste is shit are you retarded
Entry #292
TiraflechaPR- the magnetic male
human tourist
Wednesday April 29th 2020
Fave Season: none
Fave Anime: DBZ, Both FMAs
Fave Manga: Blazer Drive, I guess
Found this on stumblingOn and nostalgia kicked in. Good on you! I miss the old internet days when people made cool shit like this just because they could, or because there was no other outlet.
Entry #291
Fish- the mysterious
Tuesday April 21st 2020
Fave Season: Spring
Fave Anime: Lodoss War OVA
Fave Manga: Hellsing
Stumbled across this looking for the Lodoss War Light novel translations. Not successful yet...
Was surprised to find this site still active going through some of the other sites I found!
Figured since you had one of these I'd leave a message and say hello.
Hope you are well in these troubled times, and never give up!
Entry #290
Erin- the mysterious
Tuesday March 17th 2020
Fave Season: none
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I was going to comment and say that I have so much trouble finishing games these days and that it'd probably be years before I got to the remake, but I guess it's going to be easier now! I'm mostly sad that I'm old enough that nostalgia baiting is now aimed at me.
Entry #289
Erin- the mysterious
Sunday February 23rd 2020
Fave Season: none
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Ordering fansubs and hoping for the best is my version of walking 15 miles in the snow/uphill to school.
I'm lucky because I just have to wait for Alan to buy the new one! I wonder if they'll keep the dolphin jump scene?
Archen Said:
I was thinking about making an article about that sort of thing. VHS fansubs were really crazy when you try explaining it to kids these days. I'm not holding my breath about the new FF7 being good, but I'll probably pick it up anyway when all the chapters are released and it's on sale. I'm pretty wary of all the nostalgia baiting these days.
Entry #288
Erin- the mysterious
Saturday February 15th 2020
Fave Season: none
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Well, it's time for my yearly guestbook visit! This year I'm working on a Cloud Strife costume for Alan's nephew and watching Sailor Moon with his niece and that amuses me greatly.
Hope all is well with you!
Archen Said:
Haha, you've become the elder sage of anime. That's awesome! Kinda weird thinking about how we used to talk about FF7, and now its come back around these days. Not sure if I'm going to buy the new one (at least until it's finished).
Entry #287
Trisha- the mysterious female
ninja
Thursday January 16th 2020
Fave Season: Summer
Fave Anime: Sailormoon
Fave Manga: Sailormoon
It's okay that you're trans. I accepted you. <3
You deserve to be happy. Everyone deserves to be happy. Happiness is a choice. You hold on to so much pain - just let it go... you try to control things - just let it go... trust. TRUST! Trust that other people want to accept you just as you are. They can't love you if you don't let them. Nurture yourself and trust that the people you are drawing towards you, love you and accept you.
Entry #286
X- the lawful male
high elf valkyrie
Saturday January 11th 2020
Fave Season: Winter
Fave Anime: Mushishi
Fave Manga:
Hey Archen, good to see the site is still up. Do you watch seasonals at all nowadays? Also, happy new decade! I hope this one is great for you. The last truly flew by.. the years keep going.
Archen Said:
Honestly I mostly just sleep and work these days. It's my New Years resolution to watch more anime. Last year my goal was to play through a game a month and I didn't even manage that. Pretty sad life I lead these days. I'm hoping to go through some shows, but I find myself less enthused about watching shows which almost never conclude these days.
Entry #285
1337Pwny- the mysterious
Thursday November 21st 2019
Fave Season: Summer
Fave Anime: Various
Fave Manga: Various
Figured it was time for a yearly check-in! Happy holidays to you! The year has been pretty good so far since I last left a sign! I've been playing catch up with this year's anime seasons lol kinda hard to believe Fruits Basket and Full Metal Panic! Received new animes years after the original airing. Date A Live has been though 3 different studios already but hey looks like harem anime isn't dead! Isekai isn't going anywhere either lol I'll see you in the next decade!
Archen Said:
Hey, hope you have a good next year too!.. or next decade. Weird to think of another decade happening. I guess if characters get transported to another world, at least it doesn't take place in a high school since those are (usually) mutually exclusive. So maybe that's progress?
Entry #284
GYM WEED 420 - the mysterious
Monday November 4th 2019
Fave Season: Summer
Fave Anime: Trigun
Fave Manga: A Returner's Magic Should Be Special
came here on accident glad I arrived.
Entry #283
Dr C- the mysterious chaotic
alien wizard
Sunday October 20th 2019
Fave Season: Fall
Fave Anime: Prison School
Fave Manga: World's end harem
Hang on... This isn't Chaturbate? Ok, as I'm here, I guess I should leave a comment. This site takes me back to when cell-phones were the size of house bricks. Ah sweet sepia toned nostalgia.ð
P.S. - looks like the link to 'Mahou Tsukai Tai!' on the Archen's corner of the site directs to an empty page.