Comments on: Do You Do Episode Summaries?

By: Kiri

Kiri — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:38:09 +0000

I don’t do episode summary posts mostly because I’m not interested in it, and because a lot of the series I watch I plow through in two or three days. I do follow with a few series as they air, but there already seem to be so many other summaries out there that it doesn’t seem like it’d be worth the effort. Plus, I’m bad at taking screencaps, which seem to be a required item. I might glance over other people’s episode summaries now and again, but I don’t follow any blog for that specific purpose.

Episode blogging is a big part of the community, yes, but I’d be disinclined to say that it’s the “heart” of it. There are plenty of varied-content blogs out there that offer editorials, other opinion posts, reviews, etc, and I think more people are starting to venture into different kinds of things, which is really nice to see.

By: animemiz

animemiz — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:11:31 +0000

Episode summaries are a chore, but I do agree with you on the point that episode summaries are the heart of anime blogging. What else is there to write? But what other thing can set you apart from other anime fans? Because if I ever want the heart of the very shoujo Shugo Chara episode summaries, I’ll go to Fuyu Maiden blog, or if I want to know about Bleach summaries I’ll go to Random Curiosity. On my own blog I use to do that with One Piece summaries, before I realize that it was such a chore… still not all fans are able to go over to Japan, or even know how to blog Japanese….so that might be a bit more interesting. Even now I am still trying to write what I can on my blog…

By: ETERNAL

ETERNAL — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:56:16 +0000

Personally, episodic summaries don’t interest me too much, which is why I don’t often read Subculture and RC even though I’m sure Totali and Omni would be interesting people to meet IRL. However, I’ve found that episodic posts that do more than just summarize – as Setsukyie said, posts that are either funny or smart – can be fairly interesting to read as they give you either insight or entertainment. I’d rather watch anime instead of read a summary of it, but just like how I’d enjoy reading an editorial on the themes and symbolism in ef, I also enjoyed reading Ascaloth’s episodic posts on RIUVA because he did more than just summarize. I try to do the same thing with my episodic posts, although they’ll probably degenerate into the occasional commentary at some point. It’s tough keeping up with the latest every week ^^;

By: DS

DS — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:45:54 +0000

I attracted some attention at anitations. blah blah blah

By: Setsukyie

Setsukyie — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:40:07 +0000

Well, I don’t like writing Episode Summaries or Episode Reviews as I like to call it, even though I’m still writing them now..(might quit soon)
It’s boring and hard to write.
In writing episode reviews, you have 2 path that you can choose from.
Being intelligent or being funny, and I’m good at neither of them..
Just coming up with things to talk about takes up most of my time, thus writing episode reviews takes me about 4 hours to finish..
It’s also because I’m tl;dr (lol)

And there’s the thing about having to finish the episode reviews on time, or no one will read it..
Actually, only a few people will read them, since there’s already an ultimate episode reviews blog out there (RC)

You can read more of my rant here:
http://abanzai.animeblogger.net/2008/07/09/setsukyie-on-episode-reviews-darkside/

By: Koji Oe

Koji Oe — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:33:25 +0000

I can’t believe I wrote that. Oh my young trolling days, and how I didn’t know my place in the blog community at all.

By: j.valdez

j.valdez — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:25:44 +0000

> Of course, I could continue to insert dango references, but that would be overkill for 26 episodes…

…have you seen your tags?

By: jp

jp — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:53:42 +0000

I think I did when I first started for a few posts but I quickly noticed the futility of providing a summary. When I did episodic blogging, I just explored the philosophical/artistic content while other times I simply critiqued the episode’s events.

I think I mostly left behind those days, I just pick up whatever I feel needs to be said about any anime at any episode.

All in all, episode summaries are near-worthless imo and boring to write.