Sunday, April 23, 2006

AND now, this week in review! First up this week was the posting of the first part of Katana's quiz-'n-article project. What Type of Anime Site Could You Run? was up and running on the 16th. Sangome Wilder’s article The Differences Between the Hagane Anime and Manga was posted on the 17th. Then ryu6fw’s second article, Anime: Mission Inspiration was posted on the 20th. And rounding out the week was the posting of Bellpickle’s guide to Japanese Pop Culture on the 21st. Here’s what to look forward to in the future . . . Shinkiro's works in progress: - Her Kimi wa Petto article is still in the pre-production stages but she expects to start on it very soon. - Another article in the works and it will revolve around the philosophical lands of Kimo’s Journey. - She’s looking into doing two more comparitive articles: One will pit 12 Kingdoms against Fushigi Yuugi while the other will compare Otogizoushi and Kaidoh Maru. - Lastly, she’s starting up a couple of articles that will look at the history and evolution of anime and the most influential people of anime. Katana's works in progress: - Since her quiz is up all that’s left is the article part which may contain a spoiler warning so that people can’t know what questions lead to a certain answer because according to Katana “that’s no fun.”.The quiz will help fans come up with ideas for what they should try on their anime sites and the article will take those things and elaborate on them, discussing issues such as difficulty, amount of HTML skills needed, time, and, obviously, the ever hated question of: Bandwith. - And since she recently got into Furba, there might be a Fruits Basket article in her future. SunfallE’s works in progress: - If you liked her collaboration with her friend, Mariskah, then you’ll be happy to know that they are working on a second wallpaper themed article. They expect to finish this up during this week. - Her article detailing the sword techniques used in theRurouni Kenshin series is nearly finished and will be up once she gets some other projects out of the way. Bellpickle's works in progress: - Her article on L from Death Note is still coming and with the buzz surrounding the upcoming movie it's eagerly awaited. She’s hoping to start it sometime in the next few weeks. Ada Pallas's works in progress: - A couple of articles called “The Father Complex” are currently being written and will draw references from many popular anime. The first article is almost done and should be up after she’s done with a couple of other school related projects. - A review/analysis of the manga Ghost Hunt is still in production. Sangome Wilder’s works in progress: - Sangome submitted a spur of the moment Top Ten list recently. It’ll be intersting to see what she put into it. Hopefully it’ll be posted in the next few days. - She’s got a Fullmetal Alchemist article that will focus on the differences between the anime series and the manga. Some things she hopes to look at are characters exclusive to the manga or anime, and the different roles characters play between the two mediums, among other things. If things go right, this should be up this week. - Also be on the lookout for a sequels to “You Know You’ve Played to Many Games When . . . and another of her articles, “You Know You’ve Watched to Much Anime When . . . Snow Fox's works in progress: - Miso Soup for the Otaku Soul, Vol. 2. It'll follow the same format of the first one, but this one will essentially be a nostalgia-inducer for the veteran anime-viewer, and a basic guide for those who haven't yet decided whether or not they like anime. - Several (approximately 4) articles about Paranoia Agent are in the (very slow) works. Currently, they're all in various stages of pre-development. She is waiting for a break from school to review the anime. And as for our two new members, ryu6fw and otakualchemist, well they didn’t have much to say. Hopefully by next week they will have something for us to report. Collaborations in progress: - Bellpickle and Katana are also looking into doing an ACEN 2006 report. - Bellpickle has also submitted a great article idea that will something like a transcript between SOAP members as they discuss current hot topics in the anime world. It sounds like a wonderful way to find out more about our members. Emails have already been circulating between SOAP members about how this is going to go down. - And since SOAP is all about articles, SOAPmembers are looking into an article that explains how they come up and produce their articles. - Shinkiro’s also thrown out a couple more collab ideas but we’ll wait to report on those once we have something a bit more solid. Now you are free, go out and have fruit, no waitl, I mean fun!!!!

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