Welcome to the most comprehensive list of active English-language otakublogs on the internet. (I wish I was joking, but it seriously is.)

Note: If you’re reading this in the future (2044 or later), you’re gonna want to realize that clicking on any old anime blog links is risky — most anibloggers are complete shitbags and let their domains lapse, meaning asshole spammers grab the domains and put malware and shit on them. Browse carefully.

The List

Alternatively, you can check it out on Google Docs. It has a lot more detail, including rough comment counts.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlTaw0vN1d6YdFF4a1JvSWpoTnVPQmFKSGZma1FvY0E#gid=0

Stuff

Qualifications for Inclusion

The blog must be primarily otaku-focused.

The blog must still be alive (I took this to mean 3 or more posts since July 1st 2013.)

Corporate blogs excluded (DannyChoo, AnimeNewsNetwork, Siliconera, Crunchyroll, Tomopop, Japanator).

I must have some way of knowing about it.

The site’s gotta actually be navigable. If I have to use Google to find more than 6 articles on your site, I’m not gonna visit again (yes, this was an issue with multiple blogs).

And if your site resembles tumblr, you’re also disqualified. Fuck you.

How?

Lots of (wasted) time over the past three days. Several reviews’ worth, in fact.

I took every active blog from the Aniblog Tournaments (you may remember us winning the second tourney), every active blog from every aniblog directory and every active blog I could remember. Then I visited every blog on each of those site’s blogrolls and grabbed the active ones, repeating the process until I finally had nothing left to click.

This is as comprehensive a list as you can ever expect to get.

“But my blog wasn’t included!”/”You got something wrong.”

Dark_Sage can do no wrong, but he may consider accepting your alternate reality if you use the comments section.

Cool. But so what? I’m not gonna go through all those blogs.

What the fuck did you expect from a post titled “Anime Blogs: A List”? You got your fucking list; you should be happy.

But you’re right. There isn’t really much analysis here and I can’t expect you to waste all your time going through that. Luckily for you, I’ll spend my time on this shit instead.

You heard me. I’m starting up the Aniblog Tournament anew. October 2013, USA. Prepare your body. (Details to come.)

But…

Okay, fine, have some analysis courtesy of Wolfram Alpha:

Comment averages on the vertical index.

And following the bullshit 80/20 rule, you’re part of the elite 20% if your blog has an average of more than 5 comments per post.

Winner!

Now here’s why this is a terrible measure of objective blog popularity: AnimeNewsNetwork (one of the biggest, most popular anime sites around) averages 2.5 comments per article by my count, putting it at “unpopular” rank. Yeah, not quite the case.

Is it a worthless value? No, but it’s not a great one. Anything better would require lots of effort. So, seriously, don’t take those numbers to heart; I’m only using them to determine initial tourney seeds.

Okay, now back to shit you actually care about. Posts tonight.