This way anime blogging hasn’t seemed like a chore to me at all — rather, it enhances it beyond measure. I now have a view that’s tempered by various others, balanced and healthy. It’s assisted me in the uphill task of looking at an anime from different angles, and I’m all the more richer for it.

griever: I suppose being addicted to something in general can make you a little off in the head – at least to the non-addicted. Get me some of those cookies while you’re up, by the way. :P

dkellis: Ah, TVTropes does have that strange power to cause random shifts in the time-space continuum, where you click for a bit and suddenly you’re an hour in the future.

That’s a good point you raise about cleaning up thoughts before posting; I enjoy playing the sarcastic lead just as much as anyone else and so a lot commentary on any one episode, for me, will be ‘witty’ one-liners and references.

At one point, I actually tried writing down my thoughts on episodes as they progressed, but that turned into a pause-and-unpause fest.

Maybe that’s why I do so many series reviews rather than episode reviews. (Aside from the whole “been there, done that” feel of them) XD

Mostly the biggest change I’ve experienced since I started blogging was the need to clean up my thoughts for general consumption. When I’m watching an anime, I mentally snark my way through it, but I seldom actually mean any of it. If someone writes something down, though, especially without the benefit of mood indicators like facial expression or tone of voice, everything takes on a sense of dead seriousness.

And so not only do I have to watch what I say or write, I also have to watch what I think. This makes anime-watching a fair bit more tiring than before, when not only will nobody ever hear my internal comments, I don’t even need to save those that are worthy, meaning that I could forget about everything I thought about after the episode ends.

Also touched on in your post is the urge to be able to present something to the viewer, whether original content for them to read, or simply to dress up the anime in question to be more appealing (or, for certain bloggers, unappealing) to interested but undecided viewers.

I suppose one reason I’m still blogging is because I treat my blog as a reference for “wait, what the heck happened in this episode? I forget”. Also, I like to talk about myself.

I blog because I tend to get ahead of my friends in a series, so it basically makes me feel like I actually have people to talk to about the series with spoiling the whole thing to them. You’re points are valid, but I think a lot of it is also dependent on the reason why you blog.

Then again, I’m still relatively new to the blogging world (even though my blog has been around 10 months now, I just really recently starting using it) so what do I know?