Welcome!
It has been 20 years since I started this anime blog, way back in 4/30/2005. It seemed to only have lasted 8 or so years, and I stopped ever since. I thought that I had no reason to continue, particularly because that was also when social media rose to prominence, with basically Twitter, Reddit, Discord and other things essentially becoming replacement outlets for my writing.
These past few years though, I have come to the conclusion that finally, almost no one reads at social media anymore. Everyone just memes.
It’s not that memes are bad. I have just realized that I am not getting enough discourse that makes it worth the while to share my thoughts. I am very grateful to the few people who still are capable of catching my social media posts at the right place and the right time, and still have the mental and time capacity to reply by either sharing our common joys, or engaging in meaningful conversations.
At best, I really only had a few hundred people I interact with online, at any point in time. I am not a popular content creator, and I did not intend to be, especially at this “ojisan” stage of my life. In the end, I just wanted friends, and I think with social media it’s getting harder and harder to maintain connections with friends.
So this, the return of bluemist anime blog, is an attempt to solidify my thoughts into a more-permanent place, away from the ephemeral, overloaded, and chaotic place like social media. Into a place where shoujo and bishoujo meet again, into a more constant place where hopefully people would return to and read once in a while. I should have done this earlier, but it is always never late.
I have a lot of things in my mind to write, so I hope you can visit again. After all, I need to fill in the 12+ year gap. I think I can.
