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malvarez1
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 1:04 pm |
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Hey, wow. This kind of made my day.
Nice to see the original elf.
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mdo7
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 1:04 pm |
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| malvarez1 wrote: | Hey, wow. This kind of made my day.
Nice to see the original elf. |
Same here!!!
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FishLion
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Joined: 24 Jan 2024
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 1:16 pm |
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Yaaaaay! I was a big fan of the comics and Nina well before I participated in the site. It took getting nerdier about anime and circling back to actually participate here, but it warms my hear to see her!
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Wyvern
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 1:20 pm |
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Truly, this is the Avengers of anime news website mascot comics.
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WWAanimefan
Joined: 19 Jul 2006
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Location: Everett WA USA
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 5:19 pm |
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Has it really been 25 years? I remember all of them.
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RicketyBogart
Joined: 31 Jul 2025
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 7:52 pm |
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I remember Nina, but the previous one not at all.
I'll take your word that she's a real character, haha.
But I don't know how long I've been reading the site. Definitely not 25 years. Maybe 10?
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Takkun4343
Joined: 19 Jul 2007
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Location: Englewood, Ohio
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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2025 8:35 pm |
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I haven't been around on ANN for all of its lifespan, but I do distinctly remember Jadress sitting on the upper left-hand corner of the site banner back when I started browsing in the early-mid '00s. Nice to see she's still kicking!
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Tenchi
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 5:23 am |
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| WWAanimefan wrote: | | Has it really been 25 years? I remember all of them. |
It's actually been 27 years if you're going back to the original original Anime News Network website from 1998 but that website became inactive for a while. It's 25 years if you're only counting the "current" era.
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KittyEponine
ANN Staff
Joined: 07 Mar 2018
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 8:53 am |
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OMG! Jaddress! Nice to see all the mascots of ANN in one comic. Looking forward to the next ones. Happy 25th, ANN
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Multi-Facets
Joined: 15 Oct 2019
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:20 am |
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Happy anniversary, ANN. Hope everyone in the comic enjoyed their coffee break.
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varmintx
Joined: 31 Jul 2006
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:37 am |
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| Tenchi wrote: | | WWAanimefan wrote: | | Has it really been 25 years? I remember all of them. |
It's actually been 27 years if you're going back to the original original Anime News Network website from 1998 but that website became inactive for a while. It's 25 years if you're only counting the "current" era. |
Thanks because I was genuinely confused as my memory was that this was one of the very first websites I ever went to, and that indeed would have been before the turn of the millennium.
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Tenchi
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer.
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 7:56 pm |
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| varmintx wrote: | |
Thanks because I was genuinely confused as my memory was that this was one of the very first websites I ever went to, and that indeed would have been before the turn of the millennium. |
I think the distinction between the two ANN's is something like this:
Anime News Network Mk. I (1998-2000) : Hobby website created and run by one person.
Anime News Network Mk. II (2000-today) : Professional news website with a staff of writers and editors.
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Triltaison
Joined: 03 Jul 2011
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 3:02 am |
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Please, someone tell Robin thank you! Love seeing the mascots together here and I've missed Nina.
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Emerje
Joined: 10 Aug 2002
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Location: Maine
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 5:27 am |
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For those that weren't there (by way of the Wayback Machine):
Emerje
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ZelosZoidberg
Joined: 23 May 2018
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Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 1:08 pm |
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^God I love the wayback machine! The Internet Archive along with Wikipedia are probably the most important websites in the world.
What can we say, Elfs and sharp noses along with fantasy was the style of the time with The Slayers and Lodoss being big hits at the time. Now it's just something called easy guy.
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