Okay, I got back from Las Vegas Friday morning at around 3:30AM central. Until I get my personal blog up and running, all I’ll say about Vegas is this. It’s a nice place to visit…but I wouldn’t want to live there.

That appears to be a drunken loli in platform shoes…

Crowded places are just not something I enjoy all too much. I much prefer solitude of an empty theatre or an empty living room. That’s actually one of the reason I got into anime, no one else I knew really liked it that much. That meant that when I watched anime, I didn’t have to interact with anyone. Still, even now, I prefer to watch anime alone (in a dark room stilling really close to the television **because they tell me not to do that**)

For the most part, aside from this blog I don’t really talk about anime all that much with anyone. I would like to say there is a stigma attached to being an “otaku” down here in Austin (or Texas for that matter), but there really isn’t. I know plenty of people who know what anime is, but know nothing about the subculture of loli-isms, fanboys, fangirls, anime blogs, and of course cosplay we can’t forget cosplay. We know there is much more to it though don’t we? I’ve even been given some anime from random people to watch because if you know “me” you know I like anime I don’t hide it. It’s usually something like “my little brother bought this and I though you might like it as well.” No, I don’t get stigmatized down her in Austin. This would be the last place to stigmatize anyone really. If Leslie Cochran can got around in this city without any real stigma, then I can as well. Even the most non-overt otaku in the world probably wouldn’t get a second glance in some areas of this “Keep Austin Weird” city.

Where am I going with this? Well, basically I wanted to clarify where this blog will be going for the foreseeable future. I started writing this blog on a whim about a month ago. As a matter of fact the 1 month anniversary will be tomorrow, for which I have nothing planned. The majority of people who visit this site cross it through a google search, which really surprised me at first because a blog usually has to show up on the first page of a search to get good search traffic. At any rate, that has something to do with being hosted on blogspot.com. I see this being the way things pan out for the future of my blog. Many other blogs have enjoyed the benefits of getting listed on blogsuki, animenano, or animeblogger. I think that I simply don’t meet the general qualifications to be listed on these aggregators because, for instance, this post in and of itself violates many of the qualifications to be on animenano, strictly speaking. Blogsuki and animeblogger are out of the question because I believe there invitation only, but I could be wrong. Frankly, I haven’t looked into it.

I read more blogs than I do actual blogging and that’s the way I like it. This blog is about anime, but more than that it is about me experiencing anime. I cannot divide myself from the experience and do simple reviews of series or boiler plate a post. There are plenty of other anime bloggers who do reviews well, far better than I can. I plan to review series and give my two cents about things, but that will not be the format of this blog.

I would hope that there was no real format. I’m not a planner, I don’t like to have things sorted out and ready to go. Where is the spontaneity or the originality in that. I want people who visit this blog to wonder what I posted last, because it may be stupid or ignorant or genius but it is something straight from mine thoughts. Straight from the mind of this once ignorant and still ignorant person. The name of this blog is intended to convey something. It’s “chibi no nothing” or “chibi of nothing” or “nothing of chibi.” or spoken “chibi know nothing.” It’s really gibberish.

Like everything else in my life, once I think I’ve learned what I can from this experience I will stop it. It doesn’t mean that I will stop watching anime or stop writing. That will be the day I have finish with this little experiment. It could be a month or it could be a year or a decade, who knows. Life is about testing the waters, seeing how things feel. Sometimes you get burned and sometimes you don’t. Right now, I really enjoy writing these posts, trust me, I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t like doing it. That’s all that matters at the moment, for me at least. So, lets see how another month goes and then after than another month and after that who knows what.