"Right now our main goal for anime.com is to keep the front page fresh with reviews and links to anime (and animation) conventions."
Michael notes the state of the site that fans have been familiar with for the greater part of it's existance has subsided and given way to a "living" state:
"We know the website has a bad rep for being "under construction" for eons, so our first goal is to let the fans know that it's alive (and worth coming back because there will be something new every month). We are also letting know distributors know that we exist, so we can act as an outlet for reviewing titles as they come to market."
Also the people behind the site were involved in the truly early stages of organized fandom in America years before a good number of modern anime fans were born:
"Since two of the owners come from a background in fandom we see it very important to be fan friendly (of course we have to pay the rent too) so our first goal is to win back the fans by showing that the website is alive. One of the reasons we are including the convention listings is because Brian and myself ran some of the first anime rooms in the United States (blackmail material: Lunacon '83) so we feel it's one of our first jobs to help give some limelight to those brave souls who run the anime conventions and fan clubs of today. The people who run these conventions and video rooms never get much thanks for taking all the risks - yet they are the ones who introduce so many people to anime, so listing those conventions was one of the first things we wanted to do with the website."
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