A Brief History of Sea Slugs! Anime Blog:

Our muse, Osaka

• This blog started sometime in January 2004 as a collaboration between three friends: Ender, Kabitzin, and Kungfucius. We’d all watched some anime together while at Cornell, but this was our first opportunity to weigh in on important issues like wood flutes and bad production values.
• The blog’s name stems from Azumanga Daioh episode 3, when the girls are dividing into basketball teams and Ayumu Kasuga, aka Osaka (春日歩「大阪」), declares that their team will be the Sea Slug Team. Sadly, seaslug.com was already taken, but the eventual domain name was actually closer to the origin of the title.  I know that “namako” are actually “sea cucumbers” but “sea slugs” sound much better.
• Originally, the blog was built on Blogger, with images being hosted on each of our individual web spaces. As traffic grew, thanks especially to links from Jeff, Momotato, and Maya, it quickly became clear that we would need a dedicated webspace for the project. And so, the site was moved on May 21, 2004 and rebuilt with WordPress.
• After nearly 6 years, a mascot was designed by Lires and named Nama-ko.

Current Writers

• Kabitzin (2004 – )
• Epi (2009 – )
• Zyl (2010 – )
• Halfadeckshort (2010 – )
• Leenina (2010 – )
• otou-san (2010 – )
• Cholisose (2011 – )
• Fencedude (2011 – )
• Totali (2011 – )

Past Writers

• Ender (2004 – 2008)
• Kungfucius (2004 – 2009)
• Hellomotto (2010)
• Jesus159159159 (2009 – 2011)