The “Twelve Moments of Anime” Project 2008
Let’s get ready to reflllllllllleeeeeeecccccccttttttt!
My most ambitious blogging project from last year returns with enthusiasm, and I find myself at quite the loss for words on how to hype it.
I could just go the typical overdramatic style, embellishing the Twelve Days Project with all the flair and intensity of your average superhero movie, replete with punchy, choral music and lots of cuts to black and angsty voiceovers, but somehow, that doesn’t seem to fit something like this.
Even though dramatization and plenty of emotion is something that would definitely fit it, somehow I imagine the Twelve Days Project as something that would come out of a slice-of-life more, almost Aria-esque in its raw warm-fuzzy-ness.
This is because the Twelve Days Project is composed of more than a fair bit of nostalgia; it’s an annual tradition I decided to pioneer last year, as a nostalgic look back upon a year well spent on anime. Based around the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas celebration, Twelve Moments of Anime is a countdown of some of our most loved or remembered anime moments over the last year.
I say our, because, as with last year with the Anime Blogging Coalition, I’m extending an invitation to everyone in the otakusphere to count down with me, if only for a few days, and remember some of the moments that help make anime what it is today.
Amidst all the dreariness of companies collapsing and season previews sucking, and Akasaka episode after Akasaka episode, it’s quite a refreshing feeling to look back on all the times that really made us glad to be anime fans. Because there is a heart of gold buried beneath it all, and it’s that feeling that I wish to pull out and treasure.
So, in short:
December 14th to Christmas Day (the 25th).
Twelve moments in anime, one a day.
Let’s join in a display of enthusiasm and spirit~
It doesn’t have to be anime from this year. (Just as long as you watched it this year, is my guideline.) It doesn’t even have be a particularly ‘good’ moment. Whatever happens to evoke emotion in you, that was really memorable … that’s what I’m looking for.
Those moments that stick with you, through your troubled times and your happy times, that really make that passion within you burn…
-CCY
Ironically, I have yet to finish either anime I have pictured in this post.
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Sounds cool, count me in!
Dude, anime is soooo mainstream. I’m extending mine to visual novels this time around, and maybe some manga if I can remember. But yes, will try and make it this time. Hopefully. With many incestuous linkings all around, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Oooo…I want to do this, I think. Knowing me, I might end up failing to make it daily at some point and will end up with nine days or something, but I want to try anyway.
Count me in, but I might start later than the 14th.
sounds interesting!
I might not be able to hammer out entries as fast I can, nor can I remember 12 good moments in anime this year, but I’ll try nonetheless.
I can’t wait for this. I already have my #1 pick and ideas for plenty of other ones :D
omg omg omg i’m going to do this with minimum effort
in fact, scheduling shitty posts as we speak
I like it. I want in!
Great to see this again, but like last year, I’ll try to do it in my own way again. :P
Sounds like fun…but it looks like I have only a week and a half to start planning 0_o
Count me in, again! I loved doing it last year, and I think I have enough moments to share again for a change.
This sounds like something I’ll be good about doing at the beginning… and then totally flop at – but I’ll try anyway!
I might try to do this on time this year, though my number one choice is so easy it’s embarassing, and I will be bitch-clapping everyone who picks something over it.
Oh geez…having to go back and trying to remember all the anime I watched this year…
This sounds great. I hope it’s not cheating that I watched a lot of older anime that I’d already seen this year…
Eh, was I supposed to comment on this post to get officially included onto the roster? (naive concern)
Anyway, I’ll be a part of this like I was last year except I will hopefully be a little more prepared.
Time to start writing my first post lololololol
……… I thought I should comment on the original post since I decided to jump in on this after all. -with an extremely late post-
Edit: Woops, I meant to place my email as junishii11@yahoo.com … are you able to change it and remove this line?
So the main idea is to blog about and recap any Anime we’ve watched during this year in this blog? Or am I off O_O?!
If it is, sure I’ll jump in! :D
Ah well, too late to participate, but I stumbled across your idea today, and I really liked it, so I thought I might as well comment here to tell you that.
With any luck I’ll be in ready in time next year :D