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Today is Tomatsu Haruka’s 20th birthday! At least it is in Japanese time anyway…Which obviously means it’s a good day since she now becomes of legal age and I don’t have to feel so bad ogling her pictures anymore!

The other significance to this date? I’m moving blogs. Naturally most people would think I’m mad to give up on all that Google juice or ego-tripping linkage stuff but I’m not really bothered by that kind of thing to be honest.

I thought I’d throw in a few statistics before I wave adios to atemonai.com. Since I started recording stats in August 2008 I’ve racked up over 522,000 unique visits. Anime Nano has been my biggest referrer followed by hashihime and kurogane (thanks guys, haha). The most searched for keyword is ‘j1m0ne’, then ‘atemonai’, then ’seiyuu blog’ and then… ‘j1mone’ (sic). I guess people really love me *ego burst*. Twice as many Americans visited the site as Japanese people did, then Canadians and Singaporeans. My fellow countrymen only come in fifth. The most read posts are:

1. Spring 2009 Anime Season Guide
2. Autumn 2008 Anime Season Guide
3. Ultimate 60th Kohaku Guide
4. Ito Shizuka is the Ultimate Yuri Pimp
5. 60th Kohaku Review
6. A Visual Study of Seiyuu Boobsize
7. 2ch Reactions to Chihara Minori Coming to Malaysia
8. Seiyuu Guide for Autumn 2008 Anime Season
9. A List of Married Seiyuu
10. Fixing Fat Faces and Ugly Hair

My Kohaku posts, hahahaha. I only wrote them a month ago… the 100 Seiyu List series is actually doing very well at the time of writing with all accumulating over a 1000 unique pageviews each but naturally, the anime posts all win. Rams home the fact that anime is still big business and seiyuu is small fry in comparison.

Anyway, no time for nostalgia. Apologies for the inconvenience caused, I’d be most grateful if people would update their feed reader subscriptions and links to reflect the move. I will be keeping this blog open since there’s a lot of good stuff in the archives worth looking back upon and laughing at.

edit: I HAVE DISABLED ALL COMMENTS ON ALL POSTS, YOU SPAMMERS PISS ME OFF.

It’s been both enjoyable and amusing to read recent comments and speculation over the possible list of the final 10 seiyuu on the list and I’ve had to suppress the urge to reply until I actually got the whole thing done. So here we are, finally!

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I can’t believe this whole series is taking me so long to finish, but after 2 1/2 months we’re finally down to the final 20 and here’s another 10 seiyuu knocked off the list! I always enjoy hearing people happy to see their favourite seiyuu being mentioned and here’s hoping that those of you still waiting for your faves to turn up might find a few within this post. Here we go!

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So here we are, almost winding down the list. I hope people are still paying attention by this point…

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From this point onwards it should be getting easier to predict the rest of the list by way of elimination, there’s really not a lot of ‘obvious’ choices left! I think the next forty seiyuu all possess bodies of work speak for themselves, though hopefully people’s memories will stretch back longer than 4-5 years.

Without further ado.

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Happy new year folks, Kohaku is over. Once again I sat through the whole shebang (somehow), cheered a lot, frowned a lot, pressed mute a few times. I am sorry to everyone following my Twitter for the spam throughout the night.

Less a review, more a live-blogging-twitter-spamming kind of thing.

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Looking back at anisong and soundtrack releases in 2009 and picking out the highlights.

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