The articles in this section were written by interested individuals and appeared on homepages, anime series shrines, and fan group websites. Most of them date from the late 1990's and the early 2000's, before blogging superceded the stable homepage hosted on unique domain names and services such as GeoCities and Tripod.

Many of the essays take sides in some of the biggest debates that the Western anime and manga fan community was involved in during that period. Others are personal histories or testimonials. Most no longer exist at their original locations on the Internet, and are reproduced here for archival purposes only. However, many original Internet documents may be accessible via the Interet Archive's Wayback Machine