ObscusionMania XV: The Märchen of Wasure Works

Man, has it really been five years since I wrote something for the blog's 10th Anniversary? Yeah, after 10 straight years I decided that I'd only do more of these every five years, and that time has come. The last time I did one of these I was 34 years old, and now I'm half a year away from hitting 40. That sure is wild to think about, since I was 24 when I decided to ditch making (extremely poor quality) YouTube videos & go to the written word, a medium that has sadly only become (seemingly) more & more irrelevant to the masses over time, though there are plenty who continue to put in the good work in this field. Over the course of these 15 years I have seen the rise of talented people, the fall (or, at least, disgrace) of those who were once big, the sudden stops of those who were once on the rise (especially over in the "AniTube" community), and the continued existence of others who are simply in it for the love of the game (both figuratively & literally), and if there's one thing I can say without a shadow of doubt when it comes to my place in all of this... it's this:

I will have contributed little to nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Get it? Because a 15th Anniversary is represented by crystal?
Also, I finally read all of Sailor Moon (& Sailor V) this year.

I know that's something that some do not want to read, hear, or see others say about themselves, but it is a simple truth of the matter... and I'm absolutely fine & content with that. Back in the 10th Anniversary piece I wrote about the concept of "legacy", and how there really won't be much of one at all for The Land of Obscusion, when all is said & done. That's not to say that there's been no value at all in what I've done by writing about obscure & forgotten anime/manga/gaming/media/etc., & the occasional bit of history that others would never focus on, as I have had people (both those who I've never met & those who I have the utmost respect for) tell me that they enjoy what I've written & that I do provide something that is sometimes clearly needed, i.e. a unique alternative to what's usually focused on. However, at the same time, the moment I finally decide to put my figurative pen down & leave this blog as nothing more than a time capsule of an era in my life I know that nothing I'll have done here will have made any real, true impact on English anime fandom. My writings here will live on, at least until Google ever kills off Blogspot/Blogger wholesale (but there's always the Wayback Machine, to some extent), but there's really nothing that any of what I wrote about will have changed fandom, overall. As I've stated before in prior anniversary posts, I'm more or less just posting into the void; plus, I'd rather come off as self-denigrating than act as though I'm doing anything even remotely groundbreaking.