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Hi everyone, It has been hard reading this topic, I accept full responsibility for the current state of the community and issues that have occured due to my long absence. Back in 2019 I started a role at a mine site doing FIFO (fly in fly out). This is quite a strong industry here in Australia where personnel are flown in to remote mine sites to do a work roster (typically 12 hour days), then you fly back home to have days off at home. It depends on the company and your contract but some example rosters include: 2:2 (2 weeks on-site, 2 weeks break), 8:6. The intention of the Community Manager role that appeared around this was to give me an opportunity to take a step back from the Admin daily duties as I felt I didn't have as much spare time to commit to AF. I would continue to keep the server and software platform up to date and assist with any escalations and general guidance on the platform. By around Mid 2020 onwards it became apparant I was becoming more and more distant from AF due to the increasing demands and rigours of the job. Even on my rostered days off I was feeling disillusioned and seemed to have lost that creative spark I had prior to commencing that role. I was no longer engaging with AF at all except for just the usual server and software maintennace (and escalations via Discord). In October 2022, I resigned from my FIFO job. I was completely burned out in the role. I took two months off, clearing through my personal backlogs and catching up with friends and hobbies that I missed out on for so long. before deciding to finally return to the workforce looking for a new job. I recenetly found a new job with a much better work life balance and finally started to review AF in more detail to catch up when I came across this topic. Regarding the statements about my "intentions" This forum has always been a personal hobby, with the vision to unite like minded anime fans. To offer a fun alternative to the other forums that were out there at the time (with perhaps some nostalgia as forums were really popular back in the early 2000s). It was originally founded back in late 2012 under a different name "AN Community". In late 2014 I paid a considerable amount for the animeforums.net domain as it was an opportunity to help make it easier to find. Interestingly enough around this time we had other visitors confuse us with the preivous animeforums.com ... There are ongoing expenses including the software license and web server hosting fees (a VPS currently hosted in the US in Atlanta). Back in 2012 we started with MyBB (free open-source platform) but the features were lacking, so we migrated to XenForo. Then finally Invision Community. I don't have any intention of selling the domain or the website, especially after having paid expenses for so long to keep AF online. Next steps I have applied the changes to the Moderator team for those that want to move on, and you have my sincerest apologies for the ridiculous amount of time it took for me to reach this topic. I thank you wholeheatedy for your previous contributions. I am currently reviewing all the logs and recent activity feeds, if there are any outstanding issues please don't hesitate to reach out to me or @Myouya and it will be addressed promptly. I am reviewing the state of the platform and associcated add-ons and themes. I will be looking at putting together a new team to help revitialise AF. As I am now back in a typical job with normal working hours I will be able to step up and engage with the community. Again I am really sorry for my long absence and the state of AF, I make no excuses for that.

Yes I do The app is called Tachiyomi and is very easy to use and you can get every single manga on it.

Threshold - The Man Who Saw Through Time

pompo the cinephile is a really a good movie

Some long needed purging is being done all around the forums, a rogue moderator had been deleting posts and topics but that has been resolved for now. Soon I will be stepping in as new Community Manager, it's nigh time to rebuild and restore this charming site!

Just going through my usual routine 3 episodes into a new season to see which shows I want to put on my to-watch list and noticed Fruit of Evolution got a second season? Really? I was pretty underwhelmed with the first season. I tried to watch it but tbh I don't even remember if I finished it or dropped it. I don't remember the ending at any rate. I don't think I'll put this season on my list either... maybe a rewatch of Shangri-La instead.

This evening I finished Non Non Biyori. An interesting and entertaining little series, most of the humour comes from the dialogue and expressions of the characters so it's good fun to watch.

Threshold - Lost in Translation https://lyricstranslate.com/en/threshold-lost-translation-lyrics.html

That's the overall sentiment I have about this show so far, but I didn't exactly know how to word it. After I watched episode 1, I was pretty much thinking As for Meryl, I'm not too clear on whether this story takes place years before the events of the OG or if it's a completely different timeline. As such, I can't tell if it's the same Meryl from the original show, only younger (with more of an air of naivety), or if this is another, completely different person who happens to have the same name and similar appearance (still with the naive aura). Maybe I'm not looking at it through the right lens here, but it's kinda hard not to compare it to the original. Hopefully all that doesn't sound like a load of BS. I'm really not sure how I feel about it entirely yet, but overall, it seems to be heading in a negative direction.

In/Spectre season 2 Kotoko’s back, smug as ever The series isn’t for everyone, as a lot of time is spent on her talent for verbally & intellectually playing devil’s advocate, but I do hope Yuki-Onna & Masayuki get their happy ending.

This evening I spent a highly enjoyable 2 hours watching the Laid Back Camp Movie. I'm often a bit wary of movie versions of popular series because far too often they're just recaps of the TV series and usually end up changing the story to fit the run-time of the movie. The Laid Back Camp movie doesn't fall into that trap and stays faithful to the original by creating a really beautiful original story. And as ever, Rin and Nadeshiko steal the limelight they're such a great double-act. Oh, and I've read that there's a third TV series in production.

I think the first manga I ever read might have been Fruits Basket. I used to hang out at the public library after school and read manga/comics by the fireplace there