Otaku Resolutions
by choujin1 ~ January 1st, 2009. Filed under: Misc..Stating the obvious: Today is the first of a brand new year. It’s probably the closest humanity will ever get to pressing a “reset” button.
2006 was a low point in my life, but 2007 was a marked improvement, and 2008 turned out to be even better (on a personal level – I have no control over the economy and all that other crap). Hopefully, I can maintain this unseen upward trend.
I’ve never been particularly good at keeping resolutions, but there’s no reason why I can’t start now. For the record, I am going to publicly list my otaku resolutions, and maybe this time next year, I can look back and say I accomplished at least some of them.
#1: FINISH ACQUIRING ALL VOLUMES FOR INCOMPLETE SERIES I’ve got a lot of series that I’ve been buying this year, and many have gaps. I’d like to get those gaps filled before I switch to a “Complete Collections Only (well, mostly)” policy.
#2: NO MORE BLIND-BUYING I have blindly (never seen before; little to no knowledge of) bought more DVDs this year than any year before. For obvious financial reasons, this is not a good way to go about things. I need to drastically reduce my spending before something really bad happens. Besides, with services like Netflix and Rent Anime at my disposal, it should be much easier to make more informed purchases.
#3: WATCH/READ MORE, BUY LESS This ties in to resolution #2. I’ve acquired a massive backlog of both anime and manga this year. My room looks like a mini TRSI warehouse! I need to actually start watching all the stuff I’ve bought, and concentrate less on acquiring more stuff.
#4: FOLLOW WINTER SEASON OF SHOWS I wouldn’t mind dabbling in episodic blogging, but in order to do that, I need to pay closer attention to current series. Besides, a new Fighting Spirit series starts this month. 
#5: WRITE BETTER BLOG ENTRIES I know my entries could use a lot of work, and I realize that my writing doesn’t seem to encourage a lot of comments from most of the viewers/readers that come across this site. I’d like to be able to increase the traffic and interactivity of this site within the aniblogging community, so I’ll be working on posts that don’t suck so much.
I’ve got some ideas for upcoming posts, so stay tuned. There’s a whole other year of blogging ahead…
January 7th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Why didn’t you tell me such a thing as RentAnime existed??
And I thought we were friends…
January 7th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
Good question. I guess I didn’t think of it because I mostly use it as a source for hentai to review.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:26 am
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