Happy Birthday, Blog!

Wow, it's been a whole year already and despite some long unannounced breaks on my part due to family emergencies and school (Sorry about that. I'm a college student, who is also working to try and pay his tuition. I have very little time anymore.) this blog has been more successful than I could have ever imagined. Since I started this blog a year ago, to December 15, I've gotten over 12,000 visits. That's about 11,990 more than I ever planned on getting. Ha.

This site may be a uniting factor for Gaki fans all over the globe. We've seen visitors from every corner of the world (except for Antartica) and over 85 countries big and small, including (but not limited to):

• USA
• Japan
• Dominican Republic
• Panama
• Canada
• Iceland
• Egypt
• South Africa
• Spain
• Poland
• Ukraine
• China
• Finland
• Thailand
• Australia
• The Phillipines
• Bosnia and Herzegovinia
• And MANY more!

If there was any kind of statement that could show the shows producer's how much potential for global dominance lies withing Gaki No Tsukai, the map I'm looking at now would be a great one. Thanks you all for coming and reading/watching/whatever it is you do here.

Looking back at the year, I finally took the time to look through Google Analytics and the keyword information that they provide for the traffic to this blog. Let's just say some of the results were... interesting, to say the least. Let's review them, shall we?


*returns wearing a nice tuxedo, and stands behind a podium*
Life itself is full of riddles. One of the many riddles that has been asked since near the emergence of man on the Earth is "OMGWTF was he/she thinking?!" (Note that this is probably not the exact phrasing, but you get the idea.) One of the places where this question has been asked is the Black Gaki keyword list... and so, nominees for OMGWTF Keyword of the Year are...


THE OMGWTF KEYWORDS OF THE YEAR:

• "Moriman"/"Super Moriman" - At first, this didn't seem like an OMGWTF keyword, until I noticed that it was getting so popular. If you were like me, you knew Moriman to be the chubby female entertainer known for putting a hurting on Yamazaki during their sparring matches. However, the phenomenon known as "moriman" is also a fetish of sexual sorts. I'll leave you to do the Google assuming you're of proper age to be looking at those types of things. If you're not, then Moriman is a name of a candy, don't look it up, just take my word for it.



• "Matsumoto Bondage" - Damn, son. I knew people liked Matsumoto, but... damn. Are we having sexual fantasies about him too? Okay, I guess there's a company with that name (More porn. Don't look, kiddies.) but I wonder how far down the list I have to be to get show up on that search. Okay... I did the Google (yes, I "do the Google") and I am at the bottom of the first page due to my repeated references to Matsumoto, who won the earlier poll to become Black Gaki readers' favorite member and the BBB that I posted entitled "Bondage Angels". So I guess that makes some sense. Hopefully, I'll give the lonely something better to do with their hands than what they were planning on doing. <_<
  
  
• "Stethoscope Down Her Shirt" - More porn keywords. Sheesh. Soon I'm bound to be listed as an adult site. However, I instantly recognized that this linked to my site because of Tetsuo's Shichihenge, where he plays a perverted doctor who harasses a patient. Well, is it harassment? She just sits there and takes it, plus you can see a little smirk on her face. Just remember people... no matter what people say, the internet is not for porn. Okay, not ONLY porn. There's other things.



• "What Number Repeats Constantly in Episode 4 of Gaki No Tsukai?" - ... What? Was there some sort of scavenger hunt or something? I have the first few episodes of Gaki No Tsukai. I think I've only watched the first one. If I had my hard drive with me for the holiday, I'd look it up and post the answer. It's probably one of those numbers that also has an alternate meaning like 4 ("Shi", also meaning "Death") or something along those lines. Should I remember, I shall update you.



• "Does Anyone Find Yamazaki Housei Funny?" - Okay, this isn't really a OMGWTF keywords, but I would like to take this time to say that half of the things that I say that I wish would happen to Yamazaki are exaggeration. This explanation is not aimed at those who would say "Maybe you should go easier on Yamazaki", but at those who have little Yamazaki fangirl fits and go "YOUMUSTLOVEYAMACHANNOW! *rage*", and the sort. I will admit that I do find him slightly funny, but not as a comedian. It's kind of how I feel about Paris Hilton. She's beautiful, yes. She could definitely work as a model, and probably would be quite good at it. Does that qualify her to be a celebrity? No.



• "Ass of Grannies" - ... *facepalm*



• "Gaki No Tsukai Gay Fanfiction"/"Cocorico Slash Fanfiction"/"Downtown Gay Fanfiction" - ... *keeps face in palm* Damn you, Rule 34. Really?! REALLY?! I mean, come on! I do remember mentioning things about fanfiction in an earlier post when Endou and Hamada were getting all snuggly and close and such, but I didn't think that someone would actually input some keyword that would lead here. *sigh*



• "How to Get A Producer In Hollywood to Notice You" - Answer: Boobs. You're welcome, whoever wanted to know. This is obviously something that linked to Endou's (fake) Hollywood Audition, so there's little surprise about what it linked to.



• "Skinny Weak Males in Bondage" - I sense a theme in the WTF keywords here. I probably should re-title that BBB to something that won't attract the fwappers. From the looks of them, I wouldn't really label any of the Gaki members as weak, but Tanaka is pretty skinny and if I had to choose one member, I'd say he's probably the weakest as much as it pains me to admit that Tanaka might be the worst at something. Okay, we all know he's the worst at eating Nattou.
  

With that the nominees are lined up, and it's time to present the award. And the winner of the first-ever Black Gaki OMGWTF Keyword of the Year goes to...



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"Ass of Grannies"!!!

I mean, seriously, what in the world possesses you to look that up? I tried to Google it and then find how far back my page is. I got at least 5 pages in and not the slightest glint of my blog in there. How far back did they go in the search? I mean, was 5 pages worth of geriatric tail not enough to satisfy you so you lurked into the quagmire that is page 15 or something? If you have some sort of thing for extremely saggy things or people who you can share intimate moments with that will only forget you moments later, then I guess that's one thing, but needing more than 5 pages of it is ridiculous. Really, it is. If you come back Mr. or Ms. Ass of Grannies, please, get some help.

That's all I've got for this update. I would like to take this opportunity to give a big, huge, enormous, gigantic, mammoth "Thank you" to all of my blog's followers, readers, browsers, skimmers, and horny people who wind up here from their Google searches for porn.

With much love for your holidays, and a happy New Year!
~David

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The Great Debate!

Okay, I guess it's not a debate. It's more of a "stream of thought" type of thing where I just gab on for a long time. If you're looking for a video or something, just turn on back now. No one will blame you. I even made a new tag called "David's Whining" just for this post. There's the "Back" button... You've still got time.

For a while, I've been thinking about how this whole blog is going to turn out. There's two different ways that this can go. This post will probably be my ever-growing rant about the life of an overwhelmed subtitler.


I've been trying to upload whole episodes, and that worked fine during the summer and while I was on internships, when I didn't have school to be worried about almost constantly. But as many of you have seen by my long absences, I have little to no time. I have been thinking about this lately and it brings up an interesting points on many levels. When I started subtitling videos, I didn't intend to become some sort of Subtitled-Gaki-Download-Central; I'll leave that to DTFS or any other "professional" fansubbers. I didn't have the energy or will to keep up with download links and constantly making sure that subtitle files were uploaded and dealing with the different questions and tasks that would certainly arise. What I intended to do was to create a catalog of all the Gaki Episodes and quick summaries of all of them, with maybe a few pictures scattered about. What came of that idea is a pretty lame, but gets the job done as seen here. However, as I said above, that's pretty lame, and wouldn't be of any interest to anyone except maybe people who want clues to find that one episode that they really want to download or something. What makes it worse is that someone will undoubtedly then come up and go "UPLOAD PLZ" or something to that affect, only to be turned away thus feeling that my blog is that much crappier. So, what is better: a complete yet completely boring blog, or a blog that will only be updated once every blue moon (and if you think the updating is sporadic now, I can't think of what it's going to look like in the future) with something that may be fun for a few hours or so? I'm still very undecided on the issue.

As for videos nowadays, there's little safe haven. The BooTube has been, doing their little copyright window thing and I have earned 2 strikes against my account. Luckily, my uploading has pretty much ground to a halt, so there's little risk of new strikes any time soon. Veoh and even Viddler have gone on a mad file-removing/account-deleting spree lately. I looked at Veoh for uploading, but I don't believe they support just using a subtitle file over the video like YouTube does, do they? I didn't see any opton for it. I like looking at my own videos, but don't like subtitles on them, so YouTube's subtitling feature really appeals to me. Some of you might be thinking "Well, you have the raw file, just watch that and gimme some subbed Gaki, you jerk," to which I say " :( You're mean." If I do it that way, I would need to keep the raw file for me, the subtitle text file, and the subtitled video file for you. The current way, I just need the first two. Yet another example of my expense vs. your pleasure.

Enough whining from me, for now. Anything else, I should be thinking about? Input? Opinions? Questions? Internet hugs?
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