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Oh yeah, there’s still two days of Christmas left to cover. Well, I am happy to cover the history of Dangos on this blog, as they constitute one of the great creative aspects of what’s gone on here for many months. And clearly things have reached a crisis with the SUPER EPIC DANGO WARS in MegaDaijoubu!!!! So here’s the dango history:

Oct 1, 2007: Before anyone had even seen the first episode of Clannad, the video of Dango Daikazoku was circulating. My first use of dangos was in the School Days parody above. It was a prophetic indication of the great drama and tragedy the dango represents. Even I, though, could not have then guessed the uses to which dangos would be put on this blog in the months to come…

Oct. 12, 2007: The already infamous School Days dango image made a reappearance. I implied that Nagisa created this image, poor girl. I believe this was my first example of manipulating screen caps to create an alternative storyline for an anime episode. Clearly, the decline of Daijoubu had begun.

Oct. 19, 2007: I could not leave it well enough alone. I had to expand the bloody dango motif further by featuring a complete Clannad Dango slaughter. It was now too late to turn back!

Oct. 26, 2007: I believe this was my first example of completely shameless megablogging using dangos. I think these other bloggers actually liked the concept. It was inevitable, with this reinforcement, that dango appearances at Dajoubu would only increase!

Oct. 29, 2007: This Clannad post featured a fairly mild bit of dango abuse compared to what had come before and what would happen in the future.

Oct. 30, 2007: The month of October ended with a Halloween image featuring a dango. In just one month, dangos had gone from a single random joke to a recurring feature at daijoubu!

Nov. 2, 2007: By the start of November, Dangos were an indispensable feature of any Clannad post, regardless of whether dangos had been in the episode under discussion or not!

Nov. 4, 2007: This remains the most gratuitous and ridiculous dango image I have ever created! Dangos had been appearing on this blog for just over a month, and already Hinano was challenging me with a rival dango creation!

Nov. 6, 2007: A dango appears for the first time in MagaDaijoubu in episode 1.5. Additional appearances or cameos through the end of 2007 included: 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 1.11, 1.15, 1.18, 1.21, 1.23, 1.24, 1.25, 1.26, 1.27. 1.28, and 1.29. By the end of the year, dangos had become a fixture of MegaDaijoubu!

Nov. 6, 2007: This is undoubtedly the most notorious dango image I have ever created!

Nov. 11, 2007: I really enjoyed creating Shannad, but in the image above I promised a Dango vs. Melonpan Epic Battle Royal that never happened. I regret this now, although I might have avoided it at the time because I felt my abilities were not up to the task. I am at least happy now to have some help from DiGiKerot in presenting Dango Wars!

Nov. 21, 2007: My most successful dango-related post was probably the one presenting a detailed analysis of the lyrics of Dango Daikazoku. I think the commentors really got into the spirit of it as well!

Nov. 22, 2007: Holiday appearances of dangos had become the norm at daijoubu when this Thanksgiving image appeared. I think I did a pretty good job with that turkey too. lol

Nov. 29, 2007: OK, I guess the dango version of facebook was a lame idea, LOL.

Dec. 3, 2007: I still think my dango products were pretty cool, especially the car xD

Dec. 4, 2007: This Churuya strip managed to confuse tj han.

Dec. 17, 2007: In one of the most important moments in dango history, the Daijoubu Dango Club on MAL is announced. If you have not yet joined, please go do so now!!

Dec. 19, 2007: I am happy Totali liked my epic Claymore Dango!

Dec. 22, 2007: Dangos return to the Clannad posts!!!

Dec. 24, 2007: Orion was not surprised to this Santa Dango!

Dec. 29, 2007: The first ever Golden Dango Award winners were announced. It was EPIC!!!

Dec. 30, 2007: My last dango post of the year was a pretty weak one. It seemed awesome at the time to recreate the dango world with real items, but the parsley just didn’t do it!

Jan. 1, 2008: A new year and more dango art. I guess I just couldn’t resist! Maybe I should have turned over a new leaf though…

Jan. 5, 2008: Dango appearances in MegaDaijoubu continued into the new year. These have thus far included: 1.33, 1.34, 1.35, 1.36, 1.37, 1.38, 1.39, 1.40, 1.41, 1.42, 1.45 and now 1.46.

Jan. 6 and Jan. 15, 2008: These were the only two posts I made with a dango partner. It was not so much that I did not like working with a dango that these posts did not continue, but more that the show being blogged was not one I had the desire to continue.

Jan. 9, 2008: This was ridiculous. Then doing more of them was even more ridiculous!

More recently, there was a small dango appearance on Jan. 14, a new dango species was introduced on Jan. 28, and more Clannad dango manipulations have appeared on Feb. 2 and Feb. 8.

Feb. 14: Yet another holiday themed dango image! And most recently, the Dango Wars have begun in MegaDaijoubu! How will they end? I can tell you this for sure, the next MegaDaijoubu strip will reveal the dangos fate!