Why there are no Russian animebloggers

I asked this question before, and now a simple explanation: they blog in English:

It is not exactly my first time of anime blogging in general [...] Unfortunately i have no desire to do any kind of coherent anime blogging in Russian, thus I am here.

Via Owen, who alerted me via IM to the call for co-bloggers (apparently he himself was referred to it by isubun, a new co-blogger at Impz's).

Unlike the Russian ones, Japanese animebloggers do exist (some look just like our typical AB residents (I only select the link because it's one of the very few who continue to follow Druaga, The Tower of)). Russia and Japan have comparable population size and dynamic, but anime is essentially Japanese in its origin, hence the difference. But then, why would not everyone blog anime in Japanese instead? Good question. Perhaps one day! So far I limit myself to random comments at Moero Amazon.

UPDATE: The Nekona is a fine blog, actually. OK, so some do exist, at least in the "newsblog" category. Send more tips!

UPDATE: Steven reminded me about OnePiece.ru. Yes, it's a blog, and it's written in Russian, so it qualifies. It's just not what I would like to read, which was my secret goal...

UPDATE LATER: We are promised an essay in English in the future, but for now the thesis seems to be that "your mom is a slut" as an argument does not occur in English animeblogging as often as in Russian one. I'm not quite sure if that's true. We have plenty of the same line of reasoning. But so far the silent majority sides with Jeff Lawson who wrote:

At the same time, remember that, as part of a community, respect is something that must be earned. No one likes an asshole. Picking fights may seem like a quick and easy way to get attention, but when all is said and done, what are you left with? A bad reputation, that’s what."

Once priorities are established, the linking and the implicit trust it carries elevates blogs such as Lawson's and depresses such as Link's. However, if, due to a certain defect of the national character, the majority in the country X likes assholery, the same selection is going to result in a different outcome (It's completely legitimate. Raph Levien mulled recomputation of trust based on various roots to create different results based on user's wishes.)

MORE: Evgeni Kantor wrote in to promote his blog in Hebrew, Random Otaku. Thanks to Owen (a different one) and his Pango library, my Firefox renders it in a beatiful and mysterious script. Check out this blogroll, too. It looks like blogli.co.il is Israeli Blogger.

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