chucklocker

some people you might see around the forum often or not:

SnowQueen: Resident Magical Girl person

wwwwhhhhoooo: Resident El Hazard person

mistuki lover: Mitsuki Sanada person

JGZinv: Resident Dual person

evilpii: Fan Fic writer

WisperG: Avid Anime watcher

ChaudSept: Artist/Translator/Tenchi Manga Finder

Ukinojo92: Umm, stuff?

http://www.tenchiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&p=30138#p30113” class=”bbcode_url”>http://www.tenchiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&p=30138#p30113

I’ve never stopped loving this community, and I never will. My absence, which has been as much due to my own personal circumstances as my… distaste for the state of affairs across the Pacific, has been hard felt on my end. It is not my desire or intention to leave anyone twisting in the wind, and I will do my best to engage more wherever and whenever I can.

What I have stopped loving, however, is Tenchi Muyo!™ the franchise, and that’s a big problem. You are absolutely right in saying that nobody outside of AIC “owns” the franchise, and that the non-Japanese fanbase is the last thing on their minds. Where you’re wrong (in my opinion, of course) is in saying that my disappointment comes from a false sense of “entitlement.” It isn’t entitlement to expect the best from content providers. The minute you cease expecting and demanding the best, it becomes a license for mediocrity. I never expected, even in the best of circumstances, that any new Tenchi would live up to the best of what came before. There’s simply too much time past and too many expectations to ever do it justice. What I did expect was for the producers to deliver the best quality content possible given the limits of resources, talent, and interest. Ai Tenchi Muyo! delivered on both counts, while AIC’s latest direction fails both miserably.

I look back on my time in this fandom as one big game of Texas Hold ‘Em. The “chips” were my time, energy, and love, and I went “all in” with every bet. For a while there it looked like we were on a streak that would never end, and the payoff was better than anything else. Sooner or later though, all streaks must come to an end, and one day the dealer turned over the last card and there was nothing there for me. The game goes on for some, but I’ve got no “chips” left to play with. I could linger around the table, feigning interest in a game in which I no longer have any stake, or I can move on over to the bar with the fine liquor and the flashy showgirls. Okay, the metaphor may have gotten away from me a little towards the end badass1

Everything else aside, at the end of the day you are absolutely right about the only thing that actually matters. It was never about that poker game for me, but the fantastic friends I met at the table (Okay, I swear I’m done now ). I don’t want to lose those relationships or that community. I may be done with Tenchi Muyo!™, but not with TenchiForum. That much is easy, the hard part is the when and how of it all. I simply can’t be as active as I once was, both for the reasons I described above and the unavoidable restraints of beginning a career. Even in my distance I will never be far away though. I will always respond to PMs. My Steam info is public knowledge and I always talk back on there. For my closer friends Facebook and even texting and calling is always a welcome option. Last but not least, I doubt I’ll ever stop actively following my precious threads, as I’ve put far too much effort into those sweet babies to let them go to waste As for being around and engaging on the forum, I can’t promise much but I’ll do what I can here and there. This franchise never deserved such good people as you, nor any of the other wonderful comrades we’ve had over the years, and for them alone this place is worth sticking around for.