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D&A Anime Blog: #YearFour Journey and 2020 Plans!

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With just six weeks left of the 2019 year, we’re setting up our New Year’s Resolutions to be better than the year before. With all of the twists and turns we’ve had throughout the year, as well as what’s been going down in the anime community, it’s been rather hectic maintaining consistency both here, and on our social media pages. However with a new year comes a brand new beginning, and that beginning will start the first phase of our brand new journey. January 11, 2020 will mark the four year anniversary of when we first launched our brand, and for D&A’s 4th birthday, we’ll be working on some new and exciting projects!

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Avidd Mindset DJ/Producer Logo

One of our new projects will be original music produced by D&A founding member Donte’ J. Lewis, under the moniker Avidd Mindset. Next year we’ll be working on creating a special playlist where fans can hear some of his upcoming Chiptune, Hip-Hop and Electronic music beats. If things go well, you may also get the chance to hear his music on Soundcloud, CD Baby, Spotify, and other music streaming services.

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New Danganronpa Fanfiction “Junko”

Next up will be some long-awaited fanfiction! Earlier this year we said that we would hold off on bringing any fanfiction to the site, but after thinking about it, we’ve decided to bring it in slowly but surely. Our first fanfiction will be from the anime series Danganronpa entitled Junko. We’ll be posting this fanfic on Fanfiction.net between March and April 2020.

And finally, we’ll be going to Anime NYC 2020 for the very first time. If you live in the area or if you’re following us on social media from New York, you’ll be able to see us live and in person! Also we’ll be working on launching our own Discord channel, where fans can meet up and even chat with us about anime, what we can do differently, and what new features you want to see from us. We’ll keep you updated on what new plans we have going on our fourth year as an active anime blog, so until next post, stay nerdy! ๐Ÿ˜‰

Long-Awaited Update: Anime USA Recap & Hollywood, California!

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Hey guys, sorry we’ve been gone for a couple of weeks, but things have just been astronomically crazy with the last 16 days! After coming back from Anime USA, we found ourselves on another weekend trip to the City of Angels, Los Angeles, California! We got the chance to drive through Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, and Hollywood Blvd. (Plus even took a few pics form our favorite actors on and off screen at the Hollywood Walk of Fame.) We’ll be working on adding the newest pics to our Anime USA Cosplay Mosiac as soon as possible, but in the meantime here’s our recap of this year’s event.

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D&A Founder A. Goldman with an awesome cosplayer!

At this year’s AUSA, we noticed one slight difference compared to last year; the attendance numbers. In 2018 there was a total of 5,000+ cosplayers, anime fans, and gamers alike; plus we had the chance of meeting superstar VA’s like Kira Buckland, Monica Rial, Lisa Ortiz, Crispin Freeman, and more! This time around we got the chance to see Bryce Papenbrook, Faye Mata, Cherami Leigh, and many others. Our second consecutive trip to AUSA was awesome! We met many of our fans and followers, made new friends and fans, and celebrated the 30th birthday of D&A founding member, D.J. Lewis. The slightly low turnout was caused by the date of the con happening on the same date as larger cons like Anime Weekend Atlanta and several others. In spite of that a lot of con-goers came and we all turn’d up!

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I finally got to meet the Voice Queen herself, Monica Rial! ๐Ÿ™‚
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D&A with Crispin Freeman

One thing that we did a little differently this time around, was check out the Host Club Cafe. It was around 10pm Saturday night and the rave party didn’t start for at least another hour, so we headed up to the Host Club where we had a couple drinks and listened to some tracks (most of which were hip-hop and some electronica). Next year AUSA 2020 will take place in September at the Marriott in Wardman Park, so if you weren’t able to come out this year, we’re making our third return to this con next Fall.

On our next post we’ll be updating you guys on what our near future plans will be for our #YearFour journey, which may include a brand new con appearance in another state! (New York or Los Angeles, perhaps?) Until next post, stay nerdy! ๐Ÿ˜‰

 

Special Announcement: Sunshine Blogger Award Nomination!

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Hey guys, we’ve got some exciting news! We’ve just been nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award by one of our favorite anibloggers In Search of Number Nine! Although last month has been kinda quiet in terms of posting any content, we’ve been working on getting back on track, and after receiving this awesome news, it makes us wanna keep going as bloggers! Stay tuned for our nomination post tomorrow, and as always, stay nerdy my friends! (And thank you Nine for the nomination!)

Long-Awaited Fall & Winter Updates!

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Hey guys. It’s been awhile since we’ve made a post on the main hub, but we want to give you an update on what we’ll be doing on our end as the first day of Fall begins. We’ll be scaling back our posting to the peak days of the week; those days being Tuesday-Thursday, as those are the days where we receive the highest amounts of traffic.

We’ll also be working on the Danganronpa fanfiction known as “Junko“, as well as our upcoming original music singles “Bass Ghost” and “Lost In Space“. We’ve also made a post on our twitter page regarding if we should start our own Discord channel, so if you guys have any ideas or you would love to be a part of it, let us know in the comment section or head to our contact us page! October 1st we’ll be back in action with brand new posts as well as other exciting content for the month of Halloween. We’re not dead, we’re just getting started! ๐Ÿ˜‰

SEE YOU IN OCTOBER!!

There’s Something ‘Despairingly’ Special In Store For 2020…

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Within the past couple of weeks we’ve been on a bit of a Danganronpa kick as of late, and we said that we would be holding off on fanfiction for awhile. In a case such as this…we’ll be making a ‘slight’ exception. Since we’re pretty sure a good amount of you guys have already seen the anime and played the games, we’re also pretty sure you’ve got an inkling on what we might be getting at. In 2020 we’ve got some big plans for our fourth year being D&A, and somehow or another…’she’ just became part of them. So for all of you Ultimate Despair lovers out there, this one’s for you! We’ll be working on a 21-chapter fanfic dedicated to the ‘Harley Quinn’ of anime, Junko Enoshima, entitled Junko.

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Yep, she caused Armageddon!

What will the plot be about, you ask? Basically Junko (alongside her sister) trying to infect the whole world with despair – by any means necessary (and unnecessary). Unlike taking the whole ‘Brainwashing Video’ route as seen in Danganronpa 3: Despair Arc, Junko will be doing it the old fashion way; blackmail! (As well as other means…) It won’t be easy for her plan to follow through however, as multiple instances of interference, hilarity, and dark humor ensue. So far Junko and Muruko are the main villain protagonists of the story, with the supporting cast of Mikan, Kamakura, Mitarai, as well as the others from 77th Class (who come in later on). Finally the story takes place a little before the last episode of DR3’s Despair Arc, but with a few alternate twists.

We don’t have a post date yet for this fanfic, but we can say that it will happen sometime in either January or March 2020. That’s all we’ve got for now, but until our next post, stay gold! ๐Ÿ˜‰

We’ve Just Passed 20,000+ Views!!

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How about that? We’ve finally passed the 20K view mark on the blog, and it wouldn’t have been possible had it not been for the love and support that you guys (and gals) have given us! It’s kinda hard to believe that we’ve started D&A just three-and-a-half years ago, and we’ll be turning four next year. Although we haven’t be able to go to some of the cons that we’ve been posting about, we have made some awesome friends and cool connections while on our nerdy travels as D&A. There’s still so many ideas we want to try out, but rest assured, this party is just getting started! We want to give a big shoutout to our Twitter and Instagram fans (from right here in the U.S. and overseas), as well as many of the voice actors that we’ve come into contact with. There’s more awesome content to come, so until next post, stay nerdy! ๐Ÿ˜‰

We’ve been away for awhile…

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Hey guys! Sorry you haven’t heard from us in awhile. Its been kind of a struggle on our end to keep a consistent pace in posting content, but rest assured we’ll be getting back to our regularly scheduled program soon enough. For this week we’ll be working hard on getting some awesome content up on the main site, as our posting schedule will be changing based on traffic on our site. Right now it appears we get the most traffic on Tuesday between 12-2pm, so expect some awesome posts coming from us on that day.

For the rest of the month starting next week our posting schedule will be Tuesday-Thursday, with Friday July 19th being the debut of a new Trading Card Game segment called Supercard Fridaysย starting with Dragon Ball Super Card Game! (If that segment goes well, we’ll add other TCG’s like Vanguard, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokemon!)

We’re hoping that this little lineup will put a little spice on what we can do, and we hope you’ll like it too! Until next post guys n’ gals, stay nerdy! ๐Ÿ˜‰

Quick Updates: Music & (Possible) Podcast News!

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A while back we were beating around the idea of putting together a podcast, and so far that idea is still on the table. As for our music segment, we’re implementing that feature on our sidebar in order to give our blog/website a more integrated feel. While we don’t have any main content to talk about on our (future) podcast just yet, we can say it will contain a few elements from some of the reviews that we’ve done on our Instagram page. Also with our music segment we hope to add some DJ mixes that fans can listen to along with some original works in the near future. That’s all we’ve got for updates, but there’s more posts and more excitement on the way! ๐Ÿ™‚

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Music Segment produced by DJ Spindraulx (Donte’ Lewis of D&A)

Long Time No See…

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Hey, guys. It’s been two weeks since our last post but we’re so grateful that while we’ve been ‘away’, you still sent us your love and support for the blog, and we can’t thank you (the fans) enough for that. Since switching our main site to ‘Premium’ we’ve decided to do things a little bit different with our posting schedule. We’re going back to using our “Auto Post” system in order to maintain consistency with our content. In order for it to work effectively, we’ve decided to work on and create our posts this month and have them scheduled to hit next month, so that means there won’t be any new current posts this month. Also, we’ll be doing a lot of awesome things over the summer, so we’ll keep you up to date on what new things are coming to the blog as well as new features for the fans to enjoy. Until next month you can check out our past posts and videos, as well as keep up with developments on our social media pages. We thank you guys from the bottom of our hearts and until next post, stay nerdy! ๐Ÿ™‚

D&A Anime Blog: Updates & Changes!

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Welcome back! Earlier in March we mentioned that we’ll be doing some updates and renovations for the blog, as we’ve been looking into more ways that we can expand our platform as well as our features. With that comes the closing down of a few features on the blog that were great in theory, but didn’t exactly give us the results that we were hoping for. So if you want to know what in store for D&A for the rest of the year (and even down the road), here’s what’s happening:

We’re Closing Down Our Fanfiction Feature

For this feature its not that we’ve lost interest in doing fanfiction, its just that we don’t have as much time to make it as often as we used to. With so many things on our plate both on and offline, we’ve decided that it would be best to shut down this feature of the blog to focus on creating more original content and posts.

Our Music Section Will Be On Our Sidebar

One of the coolest ideas we had for the blog is to implement a feature that will allow our fans to check out some originally produced Hip-Hop/Electronic music. For our blog renovation project we’ve decided that this upcoming feature will be on our sidebar instead of on its own page. It will be in playlist format so fans can pick what tracks they want to hear.

We’re Upgrading Our Plan To Premium

This will be the final phase of our blog renovation project, as this will allow us to give our fans an ‘out-of-the-box’ anime blog experience. We’re hoping to one day have a Shop/Merch page where fans can buy official D&A Anime Blog T-shirts and other merch, and with this upgrade we’ll be one step closer to making that happen.

So far that’s all we’ve got planned for the second quarter of 2019, but rest assured we’re only just getting started! There’s more new features we hope to execute on the blog (some even include a future Twitch channel), as we continue to strive to become one of the best two-man operated anime blogs out there. As always we wanna thank our fans for all of the love and support that we’ve received on the blog, social media, as well as at many of the cons we’ve gone to. Stay nerdy, my friends! ๐Ÿ™‚