The Anime Almanac

The Anime Almanac is a collection of essays told through the point of view of anime and manga collector Scott VonSchilling. A new article is posted every week, and topics cover anime fandom, industry news, trends in the medium, and showcases of exceptional works of anime and manga.

About the Author
I’ve had an interest in Japanese culture for as long as I can remember, but began seriously watching anime when Cartoon Network launched it’s Adult Swim anime block in 2001. After picking up the first volume of the Love Hina manga at my local Borders and reading through the first few pages, I became hooked on the medium. I began collecting manga and anime from that point on, and my library had reached up to 600 volumes of manga and anime DVDs before I started selling some off to make room for more.

My other anime-related credits include founding the anime club for Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA, and running the club as president from 2004 to 2005. I later on transfered schools and became president of  the Japanese Cultural Association, Rutgers University’s anime club, in New Jersey from 2006 to 2007.

I currently live in Princeton, NJ, and work as a software engineer for a small software company.

Blog History
I started the site in April 2005 as a review blog, but very quickly found a niche in writting in depth commentary on the medium and the fan community surrounding it. My sometime brutal criticisms have sparked debate among the online community, and these posts have occasionally been cited on websites such as Slashdot and Anime News Network.

I relaunched the site at the start of 2008 under the new AnimeAlmanac.com domain, new design, and a new weekly release schedule