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Around the start of 2001, I started to really get into anime.
Cartoon Network's Toonami (may it rest in peace) played a large part in
my growing interest. Featured both in the afternoon and late at
night was one show that I had first seen a piece of on VHS years
before, perhaps when the videos were first hitting the US. Tenchi
Muyo! was soon my favorite, and after viewing the first Tenchi movie in
humid and stormy weather in June of 2001, I set out to build a Tenchi
site on GeoCities. Within a few years, I had large galleries, a
lot of links, downloads, an encyclopedia and character bios. The
forums I had over at ezboard had a Survivor style Tenchi character
populiarity contest called Oniisan.
I learned early on by chatting with somone
from Japan that this site's name roughly translated to "Mayonaka no
Mizuumi" (Midnight Lake) in his own language. While focusing on
Tenchi, for a while I had a section of the site devoted to Toonami,
even going as far as creating a sister site called Tsunami that
featured the goddess and various information about the programming
block that shared a similar name. This changed in spring of 2006,
when first seeing a series of Hayao Miyazaki films (aired in honor of
Toonami's birthday) inspired me to rebuild and expand Midnight Lagoon
to include all sorts of anime. I liked a variety of
shows, so it made sense at the time. It's an idea I might visit
again one day, but a certain
distraction combined with the scope of the project lead to me
abandoning web site work for a time.
Nothing else I've done has been quite as
satisfying as
building a website, and while I've enjoyed other anime, Tenchi Muyo!
still holds a special place in my heart. The first Tenchi OVA
will be 20 years old soon enough, but it doesn't matter to
me. I regret tearing the old site down, and I've resolved to
rebuild it, better than ever.
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"Midnight Lagoon" on it's
own doesn't immediately stir thoughts of Tenchi,
but I wanted a night
theme, and the shows and related art do contain some watery
places, such as the one above. The dark forest and waterfall provided just
what I needed for early inspiration and layouts, particularly the
first, which I neglected to save in any form. Each
of these following
layouts came as
the site grew, or when I changed it's focus. I always liked
the style of the Star Trek: TNG computer panels. Seems like the
creators of Tenchi in Tokyo did, too. Click each one for more
info.
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