My Pirate Crew Blog Tag

Chris over at Anime Science 101 nominated me for the My Pirate Crew Blog Tag. Boy, this sort of chain post brings me back! When blogging blossomed, these sort of tagging posts were a nice way to discover other blogs. Sadly, I don’t follow that many anime blogs anymore. Most writers I used to follow no longer write. Since social media blew up in popularity, the personal blog and website has floundered. I miss the days of shrines. For those of you who aren’t as old, a shrine was a personal website dedicated to a single topic. It explored it in depth. Think of it as a precursor to blogs. A shrine would focus on a topic like iguanas or a specific video game like Final Fantasy VI. It would turn the topic inside out. Before Google, most search engines were poor at finding websites that weren’t as focused. For those websites and early blogs, link tagging like this article would help people find the blogs.

Because I read most of the same blogs as Chris, my list will overlap his. In any case, here are the rules:

• Display the My Pirate Crew and add “My Pirate Crew” as the tag.
• Thank the blogger(s) who nominated you and share a link to their blog(s).
• Link back to the original post so Lynn Sheridan can check out everyone’s crews.
• Select seven anime characters and give them a position on the crew. These are the positions you can fill: Warrior, Sniper, Chef, Doctor, Scientist, Navigator, Strategist, Mechanic, and Entertainer.
• Nominate 5-10 bloggers to participate.
• Set sail and rule the seas!

The Pirate Crew

Chef

You need someone to make the hardtack and fish jerky and pick the citrus on the islands you pass. Sadly, I don’t read anyone who focuses on anime food. You can find many tumblr blogs sharing images of food, but when you are living on hardtack, such posts would be mean! But here is one by the Anime Foodie.

Entertainer

I have a soft spot for sarcasm. Anime Maru offers a look at anime with the same snarkiness The Onion employs. Although while we are at sea, I can only endure so many parrot jokes!

Mechanic

I have to rely on Chris for this one. Mechanical Anime Reviews looks interesting. Discovering new blogs is the point of this exercise, after all.

Scientist

Hands down, Chris at Anime Science 101 has to be my scientist. He examines what anime gets right and wrong about science. His blog proves anime can be educational if you look a bit deeper at it.

Navigator

Although she no longer writes, Yumeka at Mainichi Anime Yume always had a good feel of the anime community’s pulse.

Warrior

Beneath the Tangles stands as my warriors. The writers of this blog approach anime from a Christian perspective, often fighting for people’s ability to watch anime and anime’s ability to tell moral tales.

Doctor

I agree with Chris. Tony at Manga Therapy would make the ideal doctor for the crew with how he looks at how anime approaches psychological issues.

I’m going to skip nominating anyone else. Sadly, I don’t follow too many blogs anymore. Most of my favorites have closed shop. I struggle to find time to write my books, blog, and do everything else I need to do. So blog reading fell out of my daily schedule.