Hi folks, as is often the case with these short “site update” PSA things, I’ll keep this brief.

The very short version is that I will not be doing any Anime Orbit Weekly posts anymore, and will be replacing them with something else. If you don’t really care about my reasoning, you can stop reading now, I’ve gotten the most important thing across.

If you do care about my reasoning; the fact of the matter is just that AOW posts are not read by most people. They get absolutely miniscule numbers, a fact that is especially stark when weighed against my other posts. We’re talking around 1/4th of those that articles dedicated to a single show or topic get, sometimes less.

This makes sense, if you think about it. Articles about a single subject are much easier to tag, which leads to better SEO, which leads to more page hits. It’s as simple as that.

As for what I’ll be replacing them with, my current plan is to just occasionally do “seasonal check-ins” on anime I think are doing something interesting over the course of a given season or are just worth talking about in some other way. This will preserve the function of AOW but in a form that’s easier to navigate and is more likely to draw in new visitors.

I will probably give these columns their own dedicated space on the front page, and the Anime Orbit Weekly archive will either be deprecated entirely or moved to the very bottom of the Anime section. (Frankly, the archive is itself another factor here. It’s ugly and extremely laborious to update, which is why it’s months behind everything else on the site.)

I might still call these new articles “Anime Orbit” or something related (it’s a good name, and it’d be a shame to waste it), but I don’t want to make any hard commitments at this juncture.

That’s about all, anime fans. Hopefully this change will improve your reading experience here on Magic Planet Anime. Stay safe out there.