The subject says it all, as they say: Random Curiosity is being shut down. I am habitually disappointed in the disposition of archives which Divine is going to keep at a separate domain. Big help, that, to my permalinks. And I think Maestro could have kept the old site around, dormant. Or perhaps not: bandwidth is not free even when serving essentially static content.

Two more notes:

1. 538 comments from well-wishers at the time of this writing. Scamp, you wanted to count comments? Can you pull in that much... do you feel lucky, punk? This is more than Miao has ever gotten; in fact more than Sankaku gets.

2. The other mainstay of AB, THAT, has successfuly navigated the transition from its founder Impz. I am certain Omni could have handled the succession better if he only wanted. However, Divine apparently wasn't up to snuff.

UPDATE: Posts like this one started to roll in. Zyl says: "My sadness is tempered by how Omni is leaving us while he is still at the top of his game." Kabitzin adds: "I also wonder what this means for Animeblogger.net which has been floundering for quite some time."