Welp, this was met with great success last year, so I might as well do so once again: A round up of all the best links of 2013! Well, that I linked to for Reference Resource Mondays. But it’s not merely just your standard links: it’s hopefully stuff that can stand the test of time from when it was written. For example, last year’s stuff that I linked to still manage to be fairly useful today. That’s what I hope to accomplish for this one, and I hope for those who may not have caught those links the first time, to take some time to read these whenever you get the chance. So here you go!
- Bespectacled: Clearly Seeing the Appeal of Megane (Shance and Yi)
- Archived: The Filipino Anibloggers’ Survey (Jay Agonoy)
- How Do You Watch Your Anime in 2013? (Justin)
- What Got You Into Anime? (Martin)
- Why has anime made so little progress on Western markets over 30 years? (Martin)
- 9b. An Insider’s Perspective on Manga Translation (Andria)
- Writing “Strong” Female Characters (Kathyrn)
- Animating Society (Illogicalzen)
- In Defense of Fujoshi NSFW (Kathyrn)
- Liking “bad” anime (Yumeka)
- Will You Still Watch and Enjoy Anime as You Grow Older? (Marow)
- Plague of game dev harassment erodes industry, spurs support groups (Brian)
- Answerman – Tech Specs (Justin)
- Pointless Debate #38: Oreimo as a Symbol of Cultural Decline (EmperorJ)
- Maybe you’re the reason anime is dying (Lauren)
- Things I hate about Japan: Chikan (Perverts) (Grace)
- 10 Notable Waltzes in Anime (Yu)
- Am I An Anime Hipster? (Leap250)
- How To Have A Painless Argument About Anime On The Internet (Froggykun)
- Distinguishing Visual Novels: Part I, Part II, Part III (Deluscar)
- Where your Crunchyroll dollars really go: An interview with the CEO (Lauren)
- What Anime Reviewers Think Are The Best and Worst Anime of All Time (Scamp)
- Fandom Frustration: Time to Peel Off the Labels (G-Nitro)
- Anime Music Bootlegs: Figuring out the fakes from the real thing (Christopher)
- Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex? (Abigail)
- On Videogame Reviews (Tevis)
- Is anime fandom dying? Nope, just growing up (Charles)