I make this thread almost every year. If it's gonna get moved, then so be it.
Basically, post your own list of your favorite/least favorite things about 2008.
Here's mine as an example, so to speak (you can make up your own list):
Favorite tv show: Total Drama Island
Runner Up: Chase :D
Favorite movie (in the theaters this year): Wall-E
Runner up: none (I didn't see enough flicks in the theater for fairness)
Favorite things out of the 1980s:
Leda: Yohko (anime)
MD Geist (anime)
Streets of Fire (movie)
The Fixx, "Deeper and Deeper" (song)
Favorite anime that I missed at Fanime: T.T. GURREN LAGANN XD
Runner up: uh............
Things I hate about 2008:
-Bays Meadows closes forever: Now where am I gonna gamble? Wait a minute.........
-TGI Friday's in Cupertino closes down: Now I have to travel further
-Paul Newman died: Just when I was really getting into his movies. I even wrote a paper on "Slap Shot" for gym class. Damn :-[
-Some VTA bus lines I liked either got nerfed (65) or axed (38): *Needs to live closer to a Light Rail station*
Oh well, Happy New Year folks!
I tried filling it out, but... uh... I failed.
My memory is limited to about... a month...
I'll edit mine if I think of anything else later.
Favorite tv show: Doctor Who and Project Runway
Runner Up: Ghost Hunters and Mythbusters.
Favorite new tv show: Mentalist
Runner up: Crusoe and Leverage.
Favorite movie (in the theaters this year): Wall-E
Runner up: Dark Knight
Favorite anime: Soul Eater
Runner up: EF -a tale of melodies-, Kuroshitsuji and Yakushiji Ryoko.
Favorite new arcade game: Blazblue
Favorite new (system) game: Soul Eater DS
Favorite new bought merchandise: Aria Shachou figure.
Favorite new (as of 2008) manga: Ice Revolution
Favorite on-going manga: Soul Eater
Runner up: Yankee-kun to Megami-chan and Kuroshitsuji.
Mentionables: Skip Beat, Akuma to Dolce and Karakuri Odetto.
Favorite new manga male character (introduced in 2008): Eibon/Noah - Soul Eater
Favorite female manga character: Niche - Tegami Bachi.
Favorite new anime female characters: Ryoko - Yakushiji Ryoko and Allison - Allison to Lillia.
Runner-ups: Yuuko - EF -a tale of melodies-, Tenori Tiger- Toradora, Mizune, Eruka, and various other Soul Eater characters...
Favorite new learned skill: Working with metal and making jewelry.
Things I hate about 2008:
Crappy life stuff that happened that was out of my control...
"Recession" when I graduated... bleh. Thanks so much. -.-;
The recession....