For me it starteed with a home made music video by Brad DeMoss which had the clips from OVA set to the Goo Goo Dolls song Iris (I strongly recomend this video) that my brother had downloaded off of Kazza bc of the song and it was an anime music video. I found it in our collection of downloaded songs and music videos and I used to watch it along with several other music videos and songs on fridays (bc I am sad, lonely, and dont have anything else to do on fridays (my fridays involve more video games nowadays)). Fast foward a few years and a replaced hard drive later (where the amv disappeared) I was at a dance with my date and then Iris came on and we went to the floor to dance a slow dance and I sang it along in her ear. Towards the end of the song I thought of a line to use, it went like this:
Me: "____ do you know who I am?"
Her: "I dont know, who are you?"
(Heres where I messed it up)
Me: (pause) "Um, I dont know."
Her: (laughs)
(In retrospect it should have gone like this)
me "I am ______ and I have waited a hundred years to be with you"
In case your wondering, it never really got off the runway with us, it was sorta a one sided thing coming from me to her, she told me that she just thought of me "as a friend" (I think she told me that after the dance or was it on aim?), and she was out of my league. Oh well, sad tales of me aside. that night after getting home, I felt kinda nostalgic and so I went to my computer and fired up lime wire while I got out of my suit and started searching around according to the main lyrics and found the song and played it on my computer thinking on the night. I then thought of the amv and tried to remember the name of the anime. I thought "Wasnt it Ah My Goddess?" and then punched it in to try my luck. A pretty healthy result page came up (this search was done when the first half of the anime series was airing) and I found the familiar AMV and downloaded it. I then thought as I rewatched the familiar video "I wonder how the series is." and I started to just download the first five episodes to sample it. I went to sleep while my computer ground away to give Bell and K1 a new home. I watched the first couple of episodes and got hooked. I began to watch them as fast and in order that I could get with Lime Wire. I watched the season until it ended and was crushed by the fact it was over (but still loved the nostalgic-esque feel of the season finale credits (you guys know what I am talking about)). I had found the OVAs and the movie and was sorta let down by the OVA's (I know someone who sounds kinda like Skuld's english voice actor at times) but enjoyed the movie (dispite the crappy audio) and kinda wished that Celestine would have appeared in the anime.
Later that year in the summer when I was preparing for a trip I decided to make some cd's of AMG and give it to a friend (I should give them to him but at this point for the dubs of the bonus episodes) and I had to redownload all of the episodes (dont ask) and while I was downloading I noticed something in this listing. There were more episodes and some were labeled such things like "Ah_My_Goddess_s2_ep1" "Ah My Goddess Sorenozore No Tsubasa-5" and I didnt know if they were misslabled or were like lost episodes that someone recently posted. So I tried my luck and hoped that I wasnt going to download the same episode twice. When the first episode finished, I opened it and I was greeted with a white out, slow reveal and pan of heaven, and bag pipes. Then I saw our favorite goddess being reflected in the water playing the pipes. I was floored. MORE EPISODES BABY!! I loved the first episode and the following that I could download at that point which was up until episode 7. Which was sorta a shame for me since I didnt like Peorth when she showed up and I stopped and went on a few week hiatus with Peorth's arrival fresh in the series. When I got back I started dling again and began to dl with bit torrent from Anime Yuki since I saw it credited for the fansubs. As I used bit torrent, I found a torrent with the volume compilations of AMG manga and read them quickly and I loved Lind the moment I hit the angel eater arc. Later in the year around episode 14, I was able to get a friend addicted to it reluctantly when I showed him the first few episodes after a Lan party at his house. His favorite character seems to be Hild since she makes all the demons look good after Mara made them look like incompitent weaklings. When he caught up with the animes, we started to watch them together as they came and we both enjoyed the end.
As for how did I find this site and fanfics which gave me the idea of making some of my own. One word: Wikipedia. Ah, the amount of articles on everything that could wish to know. When I was doing research for a religion project that I was assigned Vikings (quite possibly my favorite project for any class that I have ever done) I saw on the side bar for the viking article three familiar names and one that was altered. Verdandi, Urd, Skuld, and Lind. I then looked at their articles and found out about their basis and their other wiki article with had a link to this site. For a while I didnt visit, then I visited once liked the pics and saw the pics and manga updates and started to visit as a place to find out news, get pics that I could use as a background, and read the forums. then TailsFoxFive created the "Corrupt an AMG fantasy wish" after a few postings, I actually started to think about joining to corrupt wishes rather than much later when I got my fan fics up. Then the rest is history.
10-Mar-2007
