I visited the awards place and found that several people nominated me for "rookie of the year". I think Impz should blacklist me from that nomination as ineligible. Although the first post to Ani-nouto is less than one year old, I blogged about anime for years; although the first tagged post at LJ dates to May 2006, it began long before that. I suspect that the idea to blog about anime occured to me naturally when my mind melted due to Azumanga some time in 2003.

Tangentially, the first anime I had watched was a 1969 Toei's feature Flying Ghost Ship (Sora Tobu Yuureisen). I believe it was a 24mm celluloid copy, dubbed.