Uncategorized

Pokemon Heart Gold First Impressions

Well, yes, it’s another game that is terribly addictive. This is a remake of the Pokemon Gold and Silver games that came out nearly 10 years ago on the Gameboy Color. I remembered playing this on the Gameboy Color and well, nostalgia will hit again once I start playing this remake on my Nintendo DSi.
Alot [...]

Melative and Making Previews More Informative

Preview posts always had problems for not giving enough information or resorting to “chartfag” charts that become outdated when a stream of new information comes in, giving the readers not enough info on when the series will start, how long, what genre and so on. This leads people writing preview posts without enough information and [...]

Editorial: The Harsh Reality of the Anime Industry

With the last article, I decided to write a response to the author of “The Golden Waste” as he seems to be ranting about people not buying licensed anime for some reasons. Everyone should be buying licensed anime if they like the show and/or want to support the studio, there is no way around with [...]

Sorry about that hiccup! Blog goes down 2 days!

Well, yesterday if you haven’t noticed, the blog went down suddenly and I was wondering what happened. Well, the host Notcliche is hosted on, midphase had decided to move the site to a more reliable server. Because of that, my comments that were made in the last two days were lost, but I was able [...]

Editorial: US Anime Industry and Corporate Media, What is the Problem?

After reading this particular rant, I believe that it haven’t covered the most important area. Sure, Anime have gotten cheaper, but they remain more expensive than a whole season box of a US series like Heroes or Lost which have alot more episodes and I end up spending 40-50 dollars for the whole season. Sure the [...]

Chikorita157’s Anime Blog turns 1 year old and how it was started.

Time flies when you are having fun and blogging. When February came, I went… Oh shoot! It have been a year since I have started blogging about Anime exclusively. The blogging started in February 17, 2009 when I decided that putting my Anime stuff with all the rest of the stuff on my old blog [...]

Chikorita157’s Anime Blog gets a makeover

I have always wanted to update the blog style, but I haven’t got the time with my programming projects (MAL Client OS X and Melative Library), college work and spending time watching Anime and Audiosurfing that I neglected to update the theme for a long time. Now, it have been almost a year and I [...]

Just an update…

The last week as a very busy week since the Spring Semester is now in full force and I need to work my butt off this time around. Well, not so many hard courses, but I still need to do better than last semester… On top of it, I have been working on some coding [...]

Melative Library, it puts all MAL Clients to Shame!

Melative Library is a Melative Client that came in the making after finishing MAL Client OS X on January 10, 2009 and evolved quickly shortly after the Unofficial MAL API broke and there was no usable API.

Editorial: Is Crunchyroll the cancer that’s killing licensed DVDs and Fansubs?

Although my fellow friend on Melative/IRC, kimaguresan is planning to write a article on this, I decided that I should share my own thoughts on why Crunchyroll is not only killing fansubs, but killing licensed DVDs and disadvantages.
Everyone can say that Crunchyroll is the best thing ever since you have to pay 6.99 a month [...]

A reason I’m finally ditching MyAnimeList for Melative

With the recent outroar with the MyAnimeList switching to a new layout and breaking the Unofficial MyAnimeList API, what is there left for me? With the new layout being harder to use, no complete official API and my wasted 3 months in making my own MAL Client and being broken after that I have [...]

Melative and Why you should use it?

As I recalled, a certain blogger have written an article on Melative, but so much have changed in the last 5 months that there needs to be a updated guide for this.

New MyAnimeList Style… Hell no!

This is annoying. The guy adds new stuff instead of fixing broken stuff. Makes me want to write my own MAL…
- FSX
This is something I didn’t realized when I woke up and after watching some anime, my MyAnimeList client broke for some reason… Well of course!
Earlier today, MyAnimeList, one of the popular Anime/Manga cataloging website [...]

MAL Client OS X is now Release Candidate

MAL Client OS X is almost at it’s final release after all those beta builds. Well, it took me a few days to improve on the program after New Years and I have made significant progress.  Here they are:
Interface Improvements
MAL Client OS X now complies to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines, so there should really [...]

What is OpenID and why you should implement it on your anime blogs?

For the start of this year, I have made the blog even more open by providing other ways to use your identity. In the past, you have to type in your name, URL and email address, especially if you on a different computer. Also, I only allowed Twitter users to use their identity without [...]