Hello and welcome to the tentatively-titled Sports Anime Blog. (The name and design will likely change over the coming weeks.)
You may know me as @calaggie on Twitter or as the writer of Nigorimasen!, a mostly anime blog. So why create another blog/website all of a sudden? I have a passion for sports in general along with anime & manga (and sometimes crossovers) and I’ve been paying more attention to sports-focused titles over the last few years as new and popular ones have aired and been simulcast. During that time, I began to explore the variety of older and more recent anime and manga series and even presented a few panels about sports manga in 2012 (Fanime & Otakon) and 2014 (Fanime). I recently noticed that the domain sportsanime.com became available, decided to grab it and now this is my initial attempt to make something of it and fulfill one of my blogging goals for the year.
What I plan to do here is write about sports-related anime (and manga) series, instances of sporting events in appearing outside of “genre” (like volleyball in the Lucky Star OVA), upcoming events & promotions around the world, and other smaller things I might not have felt comfortable making into a post on my regular blog.
I’ve already started a page where I am attempting to compile a list of sports-related panels that people have presented at conventions. If you know of any I should include on that page, please let me know on Twitter or through a suggestion box that I hope to add soon.
What a nice blog I’ve found. I’m a budding lover of the genre, so I’m looking forward to what you have to write here. Cheers.