★ WELCOME TO MY CORNER OF THE INTERNET ★
A spaceship searching the galaxy for episode 12, part 3 of 8
EST. 2004 • LAST UPDATED: WHEN MOM GETS OFF THE PHONE
A star with more charisma than my entire MySpace profile

ANIME.EXE

The gold star I earned for downloading absolutely nothing suspicious
~* the internet was a mistake. anime wasn't. *~
★ YOU ARE ENTERING A SPOILER ZONE ★ NO HOTLINKING MY FEELINGS ★ BEST VIEWED AT 1024×768 WITH A SNACK ★ IT’S OVER 9000! ★ NICE BOAT. ★ YOUR MOM NEEDS THE PHONE ★
welcome.html _ □ ×

YOU FOUND THE SECRET ANIME BASE.

It's 2:13 AM. The fansub is at 98%. Your desktop has seventeen folders called “new folder.” Life is good.

Grab a fizzy drink and scroll through a decade of giant swords, magical friendships, questionable haircuts, and opening themes that rewired our brains.

♡ certified anime trash ♡56K FRIENDLY*★ NO FLASH REQUIRED ★
*this statement has not been evaluated by your modem
NEKOAMP v0.04 — anime jukebox ♪ ♫ ♪
GUNDAM WING — RHYTHM EMOTIONREADY • PRESS PLAY • MAXIMUM NOSTALGIA

Vintage synth sounds, no vocals. Music starts only when you press Play.

A firewall, but the webmaster took it extremely literally
Under construction since 2004. The contractor is a hamster.
PERMANENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Fixing broken links is tomorrow's problem.
Today's problem is picking a new anime crush.

Bishonen Energy! A silver-haired space pilot invites you to power up your dial-up with maximum sparkle.
01 / THE SHRINE ROOM

2000s anime brainrot

Personal fan notes. Big opinions. Absolutely no objective rankings.

01
2002 // THE HEADBAND DEPARTMENT

NARUTO

Orange jumpsuit. Impossibly loud entrance. A lonely kid who wants his whole village to acknowledge him. Somehow this became our entire personality.

✎ webmaster's note: Favorite ritual: running with both arms behind you. Results: questionable.
Believe it!
EPIC!!
02
2003 / 2009 // EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE CLUB

FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

Two brothers try to repair the consequences of forbidden alchemy. The 2003 series takes its own path; Brotherhood follows the manga more closely. Both know exactly how to hurt your feelings.

✎ webmaster's note: Do not attempt to transmute your homework. Especially if it involves a dog.
Paid in emotional damage
FEELS
03
2004 // SOUL SOCIETY AFTER HOURS

BLEACH

Ichigo gets pulled into the world of Soul Reapers. Giant swords, black robes, incredible entrances, and an opening theme you probably still remember.

✎ webmaster's note: Dress code: black. Sword size: unreasonable. Paperwork: eternal.
Bankai loading…
BANKAI!

✧ The forbidden toolbar ✧

A computer old enough to have opinions about your anime taste.
CRT goblin
You have one new message. It is from your printer.
Inbox gremlin
One whole experience point for clicking absolutely nothing useful.
Bonus XP
Construction ahead: another forty episodes of character development.
Road to filler
A tall cat applying for the role of website administrator.
Longcat intern
Greg’s cousin Craig. Both have impeccable bone structure.
Greg’s cousin
04
2006 // VERY NORMAL NOTEBOOK

DEATH NOTE

Light finds a notebook that can kill people whose names he writes in it. L responds by sitting like a gargoyle and making eating cake look strategic.

✎ webmaster's note: A detective thriller for people who enjoy arguing about potato chips.
I will take a chip
SUS
05
2000 // FEUDAL-ERA FIELD TRIP

INUYASHA

Kagome falls through a well into a world of demons, jewel shards, and one extremely opinionated half-demon. A romance measured in arguments and very long journeys.

✎ webmaster's note: The well is not an officially approved transit provider.
SIT, BOY!
SIT!!
06
2006 // RICH PEOPLE PROBLEMS

OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB

Haruhi breaks an expensive vase and ends up working in a school host club. Cue elaborate theatrics, mistaken assumptions, and Tamaki operating at maximum drama.

✎ webmaster's note: One vase. Six rich boys. Zero sensible HR policies.
Kiss kiss, fall in debt
♡
07
2001 // THE ZODIAC SUPPORT GROUP

FRUITS BASKET

Tohru moves in with members of the Sohma family and learns about a curse tied to the Chinese zodiac. Soft on the outside; a whole storm of family feelings inside.

✎ webmaster's note: The 2001 adaptation is the era pick here. Bring tea and tissues.
Hug with caution
HUG?

✧ Loot from a suspicious dungeon ✧

A dragon drawn with the energy of an unsupervised school notebook.
Angry noodle
Your save file is spicy. Please do not lick the monitor.
Spicy save file
A gold star awarded for outstanding procrastination.
Gold star debt
Two anime eyes asking whether you have completed your homework.
Anime eyeballs
A tiny UFO stealing exactly one potato chip.
Micro UFO
A skull that knows where you hid the desktop icons.
Ctrl + skull
08
2004 // LO-FI SWORD FIGHTS

SAMURAI CHAMPLOO

Fuu, Mugen, and Jin travel together in a stylish mash-up of Edo-era adventure and hip-hop. The chemistry is messy; the soundtrack is immaculate.

✎ webmaster's note: Your playlist has been permanently altered. You are welcome.
Departure on repeat
COOL
09
2007 // DRILL BIGGER, WORRY LATER

GURREN LAGANN

Simon and Kamina burst out of an underground life into increasingly absurd mecha battles. Every ceiling is temporary. Every speech somehow gets louder.

✎ webmaster's note: If the problem persists, use a bigger drill. Repeat until space.
Pierce the heavens
ROW!!
10
1992 // THE SPACE PIRATE HOUSEGUEST PROBLEM

TENCHI MUYO!

Tenchi Masaki discovers that a quiet life at the family shrine is impossible when space pirates, alien royalty, and mad science move in. Ryoko and Ayeka have absolutely no plans to share the spotlight.

✎ webmaster's note: One household. Several spaceships. Ryo-Ohki is the only responsible adult.
Cabbit supremacy
MEOW!
11
2006 // SOS BRIGADE WEB OFFICE

THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA

Haruhi wants aliens, time travelers, and espers. Kyon gets dragged into a club where the weirdest things are closer than she realizes.

✎ webmaster's note: The club website was absolutely made by someone who owns five glitter cursors.
Hare Hare Yukai
SOS
12
2006 // CHESS BUT MAKE IT MECHA

CODE GEASS

Lelouch gains a power that lets him compel obedience, then builds a masked rebellion. Strategy, giant robots, and extremely complicated consequences collide.

✎ webmaster's note: The cape budget is classified. The chess metaphors are not.
All hail the drama
ZERO
LYCOS FOUND A VERY GOOD WEBSITE.

The search dog followed the trail of abandoned anime GIFs.

Visit archived Lycos
A purple star that has developed a crush

BISHONEN OF THE DAY!

Gold star for excellent hair
Sesshomaru from Inuyasha, featured in the bishonen spotlight.♡ webmaster approved ♡
THE LORD OF SILVER HAIR

Sesshomaru

Inuyasha

Cold stare. Immaculate hair. A fluffy shoulder accessory with its own fan club.

~* please do not fall in love with the pixels *~
too late. the webmaster already did.

The daily pick changes at midnight Eastern. Bonus button clicks are permitted by the glitter council.

02 / desktop_of_doom _ □ ×

DO NOT OPEN THE HOMEWORK FOLDER.

Innocent little relics of a very loud internet.

AIM — xX_neko_404_Xx

mecha_boi: u up?

xX_neko_404_Xx: watching anime

mecha_boi: its 3am

xX_neko_404_Xx: just one more episode

☀ AWAY MESSAGE:
~* don't cry because it's over. cry because it's filler. *~
Visit the old AIM website in the Wayback Machine

✧ Desk pets nobody asked for ✧

This cat has completed zero tasks and has promoted itself.
Mouse supervisor
A beige computer rendering one sparkle every fiscal quarter.
Potato PC
Your mail carrier is a cat. Delivery windows are fictional.
Meow mail
A baby dragon eating the firewall settings.
Firewall baby
An animated traffic cone serving as your magical familiar.
Cone familiar
A purple star collecting the mandatory glitter tax.
Purple tax
AOLAMERICA ONLINE

YOU’VE GOT MAIL!

You've also got 15 buddies and absolutely no homework done.

The mail icon has urgent news: your friend changed their away message.
Welcome, xX_neko_404_Xx!Visit archived AOLVisit archived AIM
Buddy List _ □ ×
xX_neko_404_Xx
15 Buddies • 11 Away • 4 Offline
− Anime crew
− School friends
− Offline legends
[ setup ] [ people ] [ away ]
Instant Message — Buddy Profile _ □ ×
A tiny computer maintaining a very important imaginary social life


xX_neko_404_Xx: omg hiiii!! ^_^

Saved message:

AWAY MESSAGE

★ 1,000 FREE INTERNET HOURS* ★*redeemable exclusively in your imagination

Fictional AIM handles and sample chats. Click a buddy to read their profile. Nothing is sent.

03 / THE ADOPTION CENTER

Small pixels. Huge responsibilities.

These freeloaders live rent-free on my hard drive.

Mochi the tiny cat. Has never paid rent and never will.

MOCHI

Occupation: loaf
Likes: your keyboard

Mochi is judging you.

Dial-Up the dragon, breathing fire on your router

DIAL-UP

Occupation: router gremlin
Likes: buffering

JPEG the cat has exactly three frames of animation and unlimited audacity

JPEG

Occupation: mouse inspector
Likes: compression

♡ ✧ ♡ ✧ ♡ ✧ ♡ ✧ ♡ ✧ ♡ ✧ ♡ ✧ ♡ ✧ ♡ ✧ ♡
YOU HAVE BEEN BLESSED BY ANGELFIRE.

Your free homepage comes with unlimited enthusiasm and several questionable banners.

Visit archived Angelfire
kao_ani_party.gif ♡ squish squad ♡

THE BOUNCING BLOB CLUB

Tiny faces. Big feelings. Absolutely no bones.

A shy little blob sending a pixel kiss.
Smooch( ˘ ³˘) ♥
A bouncing blob holding a flower bigger than its attention span.
Flower friend(✿◕‿◕)
A tiny green blob sweeping away your browser history.
Clean-up crew(ง •̀_•́)ง
A noodle-loving blob eating faster than the modem can download.
Noodle goblin(っ˘ڡ˘ς)
A bouncing Naruto head powered by ramen and reckless optimism.
Mini Naruto(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و
Kakashi, forty pixels tall and still late.
Pocket Kakashi(¬‿¬)
Duo Maxwell bouncing straight into your favorites folder.
Duo blob(。♥‿♥。)
A bouncing Ed turning your computer into a playground.
Ed.exeヽ(・∀・)ノ

☾ MOON PRISM PIXEL POWER ☾

The chibi scout squad has entered the chat.

Animated chibi Sailor Moon. Moon Prism Power, but make it pocket-sized.
Sailor Moon
Animated chibi Chibi Moon. Tiny Chibi Moon bringing enough attitude for the entire page.
Chibi Moon
Animated chibi Mercury. Mercury has calculated exactly how much homework you are avoiding.
Mercury
Animated chibi Mars. Mars is judging the questionable RAM Soda flavor.
Mars
Animated chibi Venus. Venus approves of the glitter and has requested more.
Venus
Animated chibi Jupiter. Jupiter can defeat your router in one hit.
Jupiter
04 / scientifically questionable quiz

What's your anime energy?

Choose your ideal after-school activity.

Your destiny is buffering…

✧ Treasures from the downloads folder ✧

A tiny goth anime guest who disapproves of the soda advertisement.
Goth pixel cousin
Single pixels in your area are literally on fire.
Hot singles
An unpaid UFO intern learning how to abduct desktop shortcuts.
Saucer intern
A sacred computer blessing your 99-percent download.
Dial-up priest
A cat small enough to fit inside your Recycle Bin.
Pocket loaf
Your email has arrived via an unnecessarily large mechanical delivery service.
Mail walker
AMV_TIME_MACHINE.avi DIVX ENERGY

THE AMV PORTAL

Low-resolution anime. Dramatic editing. A whole afternoon disappearing into YouTube.

MEMES_FROM_THE_2000s.zip DO NOT DELETE
✧ FORUM SIGNATURE HALL OF FAME ✧

ANIME MEMES THAT ATE OUR BRAINS

Flash loops, early YouTube, convention dances, and phrases that followed us into every chatroom.

Dragon Ball Z
9001

IT’S OVER 9000!

One scouter reading became the internet’s preferred unit for measuring absolutely everything. Including how many tabs this webmaster has open.

Bleach
↻ LEEK

LEEKSPIN FOREVER

Orihime twirling a spring onion, a Finnish song, and a Flash loop that could steal an entire afternoon. Vegetables have never been this powerful.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
SOS!

HARE HARE YUKAI

That ending dance escaped the screen and took over bedrooms, convention hallways, and early YouTube. Learning the choreography counted as exercise.

Popotan / anime fan remixes
UMA UMA

CARAMELLDANSEN

Hands up like bunny ears. Sway side to side. Loop forever. The Popotan dance spread into endless anime-character remixes across the fan web.

School Days
NICE BOAT

NICE BOAT.

A finale broadcast was replaced with peaceful scenery. The internet spotted a ferry and turned two very ordinary words into a fandom password.

Pokémon
MUDKIPZ

I HERD U LIEK MUDKIPS

One little water-type starter became a message-board legend. Correct spelling was optional. Asking absolutely everyone about Mudkips was mandatory.

Your old forum account has entered the chat.
~* 9001 power • leekspin enthusiast • SOS dance dropout *~
05 / MUSEUM OF EXTREMELY ONLINE

Things we survived

THE AMV LAB

Old-school anime faces reacting to my seventh Windows Movie Maker transition

Every emotional scene needed a rock song and twelve star-wipe transitions. This was the law.

export_final_FINAL.avi

THE DOWNLOAD

episode_12_part_3.zip
99%

Time remaining: 6 years

The final 1% builds character. So does discovering you downloaded the wrong show.

THE FORUM SIGNATURE

~* I walk alone in the darkness *~
except for my 14 anime husbands
─────── ★ ───────

600 pixels wide. 400 pixels tall. Somehow larger than the actual post.

THE CURSED CD-R

💿

Label: “ANIME STUFF DO NOT TOUCH.” Contents: unknown. Sharpie handwriting: immaculate.

06 / extremely important polls

THE GREAT SUB VS. DUB DEBATE

No fighting in my guestbook. Vote with your heart.

No vote cast yet. The forum awaits.


Wisdom of the refresh button

“Your next episode will be filler. Your next snack will not.”

MORE RAM — FEED YOUR MODEMNEKO CLUB — PAWS REQUIREDFREE GLITTER — YOUR DESKTOP CRAVES ITLOL ZONE — ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK404 SODA — FLAVOR NOT FOUNDMOE POWER — HANDLE WITH CAREWOW!!! — A WHOLE NEW PIXELXP BOOST — GRIND RESPONSIBLYFANSUB EXPRESS — 98% AND HOLDINGRAMEN DEPOT — JUST ADD HOT WATERMECHA RENTALS — PARKING NOT INCLUDEDPIXEL PETS — ADOPT A TINY MENACEMANGA MAIL — SPOILERS SOLD SEPARATELYBISHONEN ALERT — HAIR LEVEL: CRITICALDIAL-UP DELUXE — MOM NEEDS THE PHONEAMV FACTORY — EXPORT IN 7 HOURSCABBITS R US — CARROTS ACCEPTEDGREG APPROVES — CERTIFIED SKULL QUALITYSPACE PIRATE SALE — NO REFUNDS IN ORBITMAGICAL GIRL KIT — BATTERIES OF FRIENDSHIPTRADING CARD CHAOS — BELIEVE IN THE TOPDECKMOON PRISM MART — SPARKLE NOW PAY LATERWALLPAPER WAREHOUSE — YOUR SCREEN DESERVES ITGUNDAM GARAGE — WINGS COST EXTRACHAIN LETTER CLUB — FORWARD TO 12 NEKOSGUESTBOOK GOLD — LEAVE YOUR SCREEN NAMEWINAMP WONDERS — THE LLAMA REMEMBERSFLOPPY FORTRESS — 1.44 MB OF DESTINYSLEEP OPTIONAL — ONE MORE EPISODEOTAKU HOTLINE — OPERATORS WATCHING ANIMECOSPLAY CLEARANCE — WIGS AGAINST GRAVITYSHRINE INSURANCE — PROTECT YOUR PIXELSNOODLE NETWORK — CONNECTED BY SOUPFINAL BOSS BARGAINS — LAST CHANCE TO LEVELCURSOR EMPORIUM — FOLLOW THE SPARKLESKARAOKE CORNER — OPENING THEME ONLYCYBER CAFE — SAVE BEFORE YOU LEAVEFILLER DETECTOR — SKIP WITH CONFIDENCEWEBRING WARP — NEXT STOP: SOMEWHEREUNDER CONSTRUCTION — FOREVER AND EVER

88×31-ish BUTTON HOARD

Take a button. Leave a little dignity.

Classic Windows Notepad iconMADE WITH
NOTEPAD
ANIME
INSIDE
Pixel witch hatCSS IS
WITCHCRAFT
I ♥
FANSUBS
Shuichi Shindou from GravitationI <3
YAOI
Pixel bowl of ramenPOWERED BY
RAMEN
404
SLEEP LOST
NEKO
APPROVED
TEAM
NO SLEEP
Greg the animated skullGREG
WAS HERE
Pixel journal iconUPDATE
MY JOURNAL
Pixel starSTAR
COLLECTOR
A shaking pixel slushieBRAIN
FREEZE
56K
WARRIOR
Suspicious pixel robot headREAL
HUMAN???
GEOCITIES CITIZENSHIP RESTORED.

Welcome back to the neighborhood. Your imaginary 15 MB of web space is waiting.

Visit archived GeoCities

Keyboard secrets: type LYCOS, GEO, or ANGEL anywhere outside a text field.

★ MY TROPHY CABINET ★

WEBSITE AWARDS!!

Presented by an extremely biased panel of imaginary anime judges.

✧ OFFICIAL-ISH AWARD ✧
Sailor Moon presenting an imaginary Best Anime Website award.

BEST ANIME WEBSITE

“In the name of the moon, I award this homepage!”

Sailor Moon’s Moonlight Excellence Award
★ ANIME.EXE ★ 2004 ★
✧ OFFICIAL-ISH AWARD ✧
Tiny Goku judging the website’s extremely questionable power level.

OVER 9000 PIXELS OF AWESOME

“This website’s power level is off the charts!”

The Super Saiyan Web Excellence Prize
★ ANIME.EXE ★ 2004 ★
✧ OFFICIAL-ISH AWARD ✧
Chibi Kurama awarding one rose and an unreasonable amount of praise.

THE PRETTIEST CORNER OF THE WEB

“A rose for a site that makes the internet bloom.”

Kurama’s Rose-Gold Homepage Award
★ ANIME.EXE ★ 2004 ★
✧ OFFICIAL-ISH AWARD ✧
Tiny Heero Yuy approving the website while refusing to smile.

MISSION: BEST HOMEPAGE

“Target acquired: one seriously cool anime site.”

The Wing Zero Seal of Coolness
★ ANIME.EXE ★ 2004 ★
✧ OFFICIAL-ISH AWARD ✧
Sailor Mercury giving the webmaster an imaginary perfect grade.

A+ FOR ANIME OBSESSION

“Brains, beauty, and perfectly excessive GIFs!”

Mercury’s Genius Webmaster Medal
★ ANIME.EXE ★ 2004 ★
✧ OFFICIAL-ISH AWARD ✧
Sailor Mars carefully avoiding the animated firewall while presenting an award.

FLAMING HOT HOMEPAGE

“This website is on fire—in the good way!”

Mars’s Sacred Fire Website Award
★ ANIME.EXE ★ 2004 ★
07 / guestbook.exe ✎

LEAVE A LITTLE INTERNET FOOTPRINT

~*sakura_starlight*~ 06/14/2004 • fictional entry

OMG ur site is so cool!! how did u make the text move?? link exchange?? ^_^

dark_angel_99 06/15/2004 • fictional entry

the skull understands me. bookmarked.

Entries stay in this browser only. No account, no real guestbook server.

The official purple badge of the Bureau of Questionable Web Rings

THE INTERGALACTIC RAMEN FERRET WEBRING

Linking 0 actual websites since 2004.

You are at: Anime.exe

This entire web ring is fictional. All ferrets are imaginary.

✧ The final boss’s junk drawer ✧

A dragon announcing itself because nobody reads its resume.
Tiny dragon sign
This tiny construction sign has outlived three operating systems.
Forever WIP
A spaceship commuting three galaxies for an anime convention.
Galaxy commuter
A very small firewall protecting absolutely no sensitive information.
Pocket firewall
Junior Greg waiting patiently for a second season announcement.
Junior Greg
Anime faces discovering you ate the last convention snack.
Snack reaction
[ image not found ]
my dignity.gif
An AT-AT delivering emails because the postal service has become militarized
YOU MADE IT TO THE BOTTOM!!

Achievement unlocked: scroll wheel survivor.

Under construction, but emotionally

All advertisements are fake jokes. No purchases, downloads, or soda-related crimes will occur.

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