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I'll update Current Favorites at the end of next week with whatever gets my interest. Winter season's just started, so a little early right now to say what will get my interest.

Good news! I found a way around the blocked front door of the Anime Tosho website and can download a torrent of Winter 2022 fansubs. The trick is to go through the 'AnimeTosho Proxy' website. (everyone else probably already knew this)

I have a few other options at my disposal to see ongoing anime, which don't involve that site in question.

I've updated Current Favorites to include new Winter anime that have my interest. Feel free to add to the list.

After watching the new anime 'Love of Kill' I added a new category, 'Assassin(s). I figured I should be able to find four or five shows of the type--but there are in fact dozens!

The new shows of the Winter season are falling by the wayside with alarming speed. I wonder if I'll be able to count the ones that are really worth watching on the fingers of one hand.

It is getting harder and harder for me to reach the Mikomi website. It used to be that typing 'anime mikomi' was more than enough to be sent right here by Bing, now those words bring up a list of about every option except this website. I had to take a roundabout route through an image I once used to create a page to get here today. Google will bring me here but I must enter my password, which doesn't seem to register anymore.

I'd recommend either typing anime.mikomi.org into your address bar to get here or bookmarking. Duckduckgo seems to have the same problems as Bing. I'm curious about your Google issues though? It works fine for me without any password prompting anywhere along the line?

I guess the basic problem is that my computer decided to make Bing my default search engine even though I never requested it--I guess me just using it once was enough to convince the computer that I wanted it all of the time. If I use Bing to go to Google, I'm sent here without trouble and don't have to enter my password (I just figured this out today).

Since you had some problems logging in I'd recommend going to "Edit your profile" and setting a new password there. Also make sure that the email there is up to date, so you can use the "forgot my password" feature if it happens again.

OK, I have reset my password (I didn't know I could do that until now).

...which was good news, since I sent my computer iin for an overhaul, and some important programs, like uTorrent, were uninstalled! I am struggling to get everything working again.

I took the liberty of reducing the size of the image on the Birdie Wing page by 25%.

Just updated Current Favorites to include new titles for the Spring season. Feel free to add to the list.

Spy X Family for sure.

The only other new anime I'm watching this season is "Shachiku-san wa Yо̄jo Yuurei ni Iyasaretai"

I'm only about halfway through week two episodes, so I don't really have a favorite yet, but I'm enjoying Heroine Tarumono, Virgin Road, and Yuusha, Yamemasu.

Have five I've chosen to commit to for the season.

Well, almost every season seems to have a lot of hits early on, but after watching two episodes worth I still have around 20 series that I might watch to the end. In most seasons only around 7 make it that far.

Current Favorites are updated to include new Summer titles airing. Feel free to add more to the list.

Just hit another milestone making my 2200th review for Mikomi with Summertime Rendering.

Good work. I am almost to 1900.

Hey, Ggultra2764, do you think we should have a new page for Spy x Family S2? I'm not sure I'm going to watch it.

Most sites like ANN and MAL have the two seasons as separate entries for their title listings since they were ran on separate seasons. So I'd say keep them separate. Highly doubt I'm watching the second one as well. My interest in the series waned after its first season.

Slim pickings for me this season. But updated Current Favorites to include new anime airing this season. Feel free to add to the list.

It seems that there is a sort of unwritten rule that if there is a gap of three months or more between two parts of a series, then they count as different shows.

Had a server hiccup this morning, had to restore from backup, please ping if you encounter anything weird.

Just that I'll have to redo my review on a series I completed yesterday since that was after the time of your saved backup. But considering the circumstances, understandable.

No problems for me.

There are so few neat shows this season that I find I must limit myself to just one new episode per night.

I have started rewatching several old series due to the shortage of fresh episodes.

Well, for once I have pretty much finished watching all of last season's shows before the new ones arrive. That's because the pickings were relatively meagre last season so there were fewer to check out and fewer worth watching to the end.

SpyxFamily and Urusei Yatsura 2022 were all I checked out

I created an entry for Trigun Stampede. It has been ages since I did that, so I've forgotten a lot about linking and such.

You probably remember more than I have ever known.

I notice that Mikomi's 4600th series page has been created.

Updated Current Favorites to include new titles for this season. Feel free to add to the list.

I have added Tsunlise Tsunlise.

Finally finished with the initial reviews of new Winter 2023 series! Last season I watched only five series to completion, but this season it could easily be a dozen or more.

Forget what I just said. While there were lots of new shows in the Winter season, they turned out to be distinctly disappointing. At one point I had thought it would be weeks into the Spring season before I finished watching them all, but in the end only six seemed worth following to the end. There were no 'stars' like Akiba Maid Wars last season, IMO.

At the rate this is looking, my viewing of current season titles is gonna be the most stacked I've had it in quite some time.

Current Favorites list is updated to include new titles for this season. Feel free to add to the list.

@Stretch -- I'm just glad you and Ggultra2764 keep the fires burning here.

Thanks. I have never fully understood what it is about anime that I like, but other than some PBS stuff and sports it is about the only TV I watch.

I will go through my DVD/BD collection of stuff (B5, TNG, DS9, British comedy shows, etc.), but anime is mostly the only thing I watch new stuff for.

I'm 'cleaning up' my Winter 2023 reviews, which involves inserting the total number of episodes and making any final comments that are necessary to complete the reviews.

First Summer 2023 anime available on the internet today!

Just hit my 2300th review with Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime a short time ago.

Good work!

I've updated the Current Favorites list to include new titles from this season. Feel free to add to the list!

Guess what? I've just passed the 2000 reviews mark myself.

That took a good while for you to accomplish.

Only 20 years or so.

Surprised to see that Evangelion is tagged cyberpunk and Roujin Z -isn't-. (I finally got around to watching Cyberpunk Edgerunners and was somehow more reminded of Roujin Z than other more mainstream titles.) (Genres are hard to agree on, probably cyberpunk more than most -- Blue Sub 6 surprises me by its presence on the Cyberpunk tag as well, though honestly I barely remember beyond the early CG, and it being released one episode at a time.)

Edited on 08/08/2023 11:05 PM.

Not sure I'd consider those particular titles cyberpunk as both took place in near-future settings. Cyberpunk is more associated with significant technological advancements and societal decay within a future dystopian world.

I swear, to the best of my memory I did not assign those keywords. If Ggultra 2764 didn't either, it must have happened a good while ago. I doubt if anyone would care if they were changed.

It took me more than half of the Summer season just to watch the first episode of (almost) every show, but now I'm rapidly catching up since only three struck me as definitely worth watching: Mushoku Tensei II, Helck, and Zom 100.

I had assumed that the Fall season wouldn't begin until at least Oct. 1, but yesterdat (9/29) there were new anime on the internet!

Since we had two pages for the same show (Frieren) I converted yours to a page for another show, S-Rank Musume, since mine had a preliminary review. But I neglected to move the Japanese website address to the remaining page. Oops...

Have Current Favorites list updated for this season's anime. Feel free to add to the list.

Lately it seems like every other day I get a message of 'Service Unavailable' when I try to log on here at Mikomi. 'The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems'.

Is the problem still going on? I've checked in a couple of times recently and no issue.

It seems to have gone away. But I have no idea what caused it and whether it might return at some point.

From what Bella explained in her emails to me a few weeks ago on the issue, it looked like the server was going down every other day and then rebooting itself overnight. But appears all is resolved for now.

Bleh, meant Becca. What I get for typing too fast.

The list of Fall 2023 anime that ANN critics liked most and least was odd because hardly any of the shows I watched was mentioned in either category.

Another 'Service Unavailable' day on Dec. 26th.

I believe I have identified the first new fansub of a Winter 2024 anime on the internet: 'Isekai de Mofumofu--'

I've updated the Current Favorites list to include current season titles. Feel free to add to the list.

A 'service unavailable' day on January 20. I notice Ggultra2764 did not post anything either.

Site was also down for me yesterday, hence I couldn't update things with my profile for my anime viewing.

Same here.

Another 'Service Unavailable' day on Jan. 25th.

See my profile for quick details. But will just say I think it's time for me to move on from here.

That's a pity, but of course if you are not getting much reward for the time and trouble you spend here you are under no obligation to continue. I intend to press onwards.

...I realized recently that I write reviews largely to help myself remember what happened during shows, not to please strangers who happen to read them.

...but any stranger who fancies becoming an amateur anime reviewer is free to join at any time. I was just like you once.

Yet another 'Service Unavailable' day on Jan. 28.

And another on Jan. 30.

And Feb. 1.

I really should archive my reviews from here, in case the website ever dies.

I should, too.

Looks like Stetch is the only one writing here any more.

You know, I understand Goultra's decision to quit. I started my blog in part to have more control over what I wrote.

As I get older, I find I don't want to write as much, to say nothing of lack of time. And most folks these days want video reviews.

I made a tool to make it easier to get a copy of all your reviews back in... geez, 2008. You can view it as a page here and you can get it in XML here (if you want it in a more structured format).

Edited on 03/31/2024 03:16 PM.

Thanks!

Whew! Yesterday, the site was not accessible. Today, it loads insanely slow, almost as if it is under a DDoS attack.

Mikomi has been 'Service Unavailable' for me almost every day for the last two weeks or so. When it does run, it is so slow as to be almost useless. Did you get the e-mail I sent you, Rebecca?

I think I have managed to copy all of my reviews onto my own computer, just in case.

Yeah, I exported all of my reviews. I do think the site is under DDoS. That would account for the slowness and unreachable state.

Ok, apparently there was a badly behaved robot hosted on Alibaba's cloud that was hammering the site into the ground. I've blocked their subnet at the network level, and things seem stable now.

41 days of that, yeesh

Thanks for fixing things. The website seems normal today (July 24).

It was down most of the 23rd.

Notice how all the 'Most visited this month' figures are waydown.

Found another bot from a few days ago, this one was a badly behaved AI training data scraper, as best as I can tell, from Germany this time. I've blocked that IP range as well.

I would be completely helpless if it were not for you, Rebecca. While the website was effectively down for 40 plus days I wondered if it would ever revive and I realized how much I enjoy posting here, even if I am alone.

Mikomi was 'Service Unavailable' on July 28. A '503' event.

You're slacking, Stretch. I actually had to take a refresher on how to add a new series.

(I'm kidding about the slacking, of course.)

I've downloaded and converted Fairy Tail Quest, but haven't gotten around to watching it yet. Glad to see I'm not the only one making posts here.

Episode 1, that is.

Haha! Well, I still come by. Obviously, I have my own blog now, so I rarely add new stuff here. But when I saw Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest was missing, I decided to add it.

If you want to add anything to Current favorites, by all means please do.

'Service unavailable' on Aug. 26

And (after working OK in the morning) on Sept. 1st.

hmm... weird it looks like it's not always coming back after log rotation... maybe? I'll dig in...

Error logs show some regular attempts at SQL injection from a host on Amazon EC2. While those requests were blocked, I wonder if they caused additional issues. Regardless, I've banned the entire EC2 block of IPs, as those will never be normal users.

Power out for three days as a result of hurricane Helene--and I live in Ohio.

'Service Unavailable' on Oct. 8th.

Yikes on the power outage. Since I work from home, I sprang for a whole house generator. Thankfully, I haven't needed to use it yet.

Hey all, big outage today due to annoying software update reasons, but things should be back to normal. If not, please give me a yell!

For some reason, I kept getting a message that I was 'Forbidden' to use the website yeesterday.

@Stretch Yeah, that was the outage. Distro upgrade, upgraded apache, which changed its syntax for controlling file access and it took me a bit to find all the parts that had to change.

I'm glad to see that you are still keeping an eye on Mikomi, because I would be helpless if I had to deal with all the technical matters.

I'm getting a lot of 403 "Forbidden" errors. Any link with http:// gets the error while https:// does not.

It seems that all individual pages are 'forbidden' on Jan. 24th.

I got several 'forbidden' messages early on Jan. 24th and things were running slowly after they went eventually away.

AI bot crawlers that don't follow the rules, unfortunately. I've been playing whack-a-mole.

Server went from 60k requests a day to 1.4 million.

Thanks for keeping an eye on things!

site's been bouncy the last few days more scanning and attack spikes, but I've blocked half of all the datacenter IPs, so things are calm again =p

Thanks.

Looks like things are back.

Thank God! Did you get my e-mail Rebecca, or did you just notice that something was wrong?

Well that was a pain in the butt. My hosting company apparently changed my allocated ip address of the server without notice. It took me a while to figure that out, since, obviously neither the machine nor my DNS was aware of that.

I got a warning about my connection to Mikomi being 'unsafe'. Something about a 'certificate' (which I understood as Mikomi having) had expired.

"Yopur connection is not private" the warning said. Afterwards I could come to Mikomi but the pages were in their alternate, backup mode--no illustrations, lettwering different, things that are usually at the top of the page now at the bottom, etc.

Things seem to be back to normal today.

Ah yeah, that was the autorenewal of the SSL certificate failing because of that IP address change. That's been fixed too (which is why you soon stopped seeing that warning, but also it should hopefully never have that sort of renewal issue again)

Thanks for fixing that.

Seems to be updating?

I think so. I haven't noticed any problems with 'updating' since I was re-admitted. (I've just been away from my computer for several days).

Things are moving very slowly at the Mikomi website today (Tuesday) and I just got a message that I was 'Forbidden' to access one anime's page.

Whenever I try to access Anime News Network nowadays, I get this message: "Hmmm… can't reach this page It looks like the webpage at https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime/episodes/2025-06-10#ep28365-11 might be having issues, or it may have moved permanently to a new web address."

Is that still going on? 'Cause right now, it is loading fine.

Nowadays I must undergo a 'Captcha' before I can access ANN, but otherwise it seems to be working again.

Once I got the same 'Hmmmm...' message while changing pages at ANN, but it went away after a moment.

Another time while trying to go to 'Watch and rate today's episodes' the message wouldn't go away and I gave up.