Well, it's been a long time but I finally got around to updating Genrou.com a little bit. It's not much, but I removed all of the dead links from the links page. So many good sites have disappeared over the last year or so; it's a little depressing to think that maybe shrine making is becoming a dead form of art. I do plan on adding more links at some point, as my bookmarks list is full of awesome sites that I've come across within the last while. It'll just take me a while to sort through it all. :3

In the meantime, there will be a layout update. I've been feeling kind of depressed lately because I've been so pre-occupied with work that I haven't been able to work on my own projects. Even though I work on a web site all day, I really feel out of the loop. Anyway, I'm not sure when the new layout will go up but I'm going to aim for the end of this upcoming weekend, at the latest. ^^

This is sort of going against the plan I had, but I'm currently working on reviving my Haruka x Michiru shrine, Sky Coloured Oceans. I originally put it on a permanent hiatus in October 2002, thinking that I wouldn't be working on it any longer. Well... I've recently regained my interest in Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon and I thought it might be nice to revive the site with a new layout and new content.

I won't be rewriting the content that I currently have, because I believe it's already detailed and unique enough as it is. Instead, I'll just be adding additional content to the site to make it more complete. The update is going to take me a long time because I'm illustrating the artwork for the layout myself and I've decided to add a whole lot of content. If I'm lucky, the updates will be posted online by October. :3

Just a quick update; I cleaned out my joined fanlistings to fix any broken links and remove fanlistings that aren't in existance anymore. I also joined a whole bunch of new ones. :3 Yay for tidying up!

These updates were actually done last week, I had just forgotten to post about them.

I went through and re-wrote the western zodiac section so that it contains information about Kyo's actual sign, Capricorn. I had written about Aries originally because that's what he was believed to be before the official information was released, which was a year or so after my site had been put online. I was aware of the change but I was always too busy, so I never got around to fixing it. Well, until now anyway. :3 I also changed the info in his vital stats.

I also updated the links page. It makes me sad to see that so many excellent Furuba sites have disappeared over the last year or so. :/ If anyone knows of any good Furuba sites that I don't have listed, please feel free to comment here with links. In the meantime, i'll keep looking myself.

After such a long wait, I've finally gotten the new layout and content up over at Chimera Kage! Nearly everything has been re-written or added to and the layout has gotten a complete overhaul, featuring a piece of fanart that I created. :3 It was a long overdue update to the site, so please take a look around, enjoy, and let me know what you think of it all.

Alright, so it's been a while since I've done any major updates to my sites but I'd like to assure everyone that I haven't abandoned them at all. I've gotten to that point in my life where I never thought I'd actually reach... The point where I'm working and commuting so much that by the time I get home, I don't want to do much of anything but sleep and eat. ;P But I am trying to get back into wanting to work on my precious web sites again, so please everyone bear with me until I can get enough time together and clean stuff up.

I have a number of things I want to address:

First. A hacker got access to All-Blue.org through the e-mail script that I was using on the contact page and had set up a phishing site in a separate directory on the domain. It's funny how easily things can slip by sometimes. :X I've deleted the e-mail script from that site and I'm currently working on removing it from all of my sites altogether. I will be replacing it with a simple link with my e-mail since Zee and I have had far too many problems with insecure scripts lately. :p

Second. Baroque Orange, my Sohma Kyo shrine, is completely, horribly, desperately outdated. I've been keeping up with the manga just as much as any of the other Furuba fans out there, so I'm fully aware of all of the developments that have been happening since the last update. I just haven't had time to sit down and update all of the content at all. Although I want this to be my next project, I'm tempted to wait until the end of the year before starting anything major as this is when Natsuki Takaya plans on finishing the manga by. It'd be pointless for me to do all this work and then have to redo it again at the end of the year. Then again, there are a lot of other updates I can do in the meantime (like updating the incorrect astrology information). For any visitors reading this, I'd like to ask people to refrain e-mailing about me needing to make updates. ^^ I appreciate the concern and enthusiasm, but I know it needs to be done already.

Third. The next major update will be for Chimera Kage. There will be a new layout, new content, new everything, as it was desperately needed. Most of the information is going to be reflective of the novels with anime and manga information on the side. This update should have been done months ago but I've been working on it on and off and just never got it complete. I'd like to say I'll have it up by the end of next weekend but I won't make any promises.

Just a quick update; joined the Naruto Ring, in hopes of getting a bit more publicity for the Sakura shrine. ^^ I'll also be submitting it to a few other link directories today.

One more shrine can be added to Genrou.com's list of sites, as Serendipity opens to the public for the very first time! ^^ Serendipity is a shrine to Haruno Sakura from the popular series about ninja, Naruto. The only section that isn't up yet is music, as I have yet to sort through my mp3s. I have some plans for the site in the near future, which happen to include a section for Sakura's love life (which is pretty much just Sasuke... XD), an in-depth look at her personality, a section for her weird little quirks and some AIM buddy icons. Yes, I could have included those in this update but I felt that it'd be better to get the site up and running first. ;3

Those of you who are fans of the Harry Potter series might be interested in the brand new Imperius Forums that have opened up on Nagini.net, my HP-themed domain. This forum can be considered the reincarnation of the Nagini.net Forums that used to exist in its place... it just has a new name and a new layout for it. ^^ If you like Harry Potter and enjoy discussing it in any form, please stop by, sign up and start posting! XD

IMPERIUS FORUMS

The following updates were actually done over the last two days... I just hadn't got around to making an update about it yet. ^^

- Music section has been redone; features all songs in .m4a format and Japanese/English lyrics for Moulin Rouge. I'm currently waiting on a reply from the owner of Destination: Paradise for permission to use the Japanese and English lyrics for two songs. Hopefully she allows me to use them. ^^ In the meantime, if anyone can help me out by providing Japanese and/or English translations for "GIRLS ni Kubittake" and "Setai no Otoko

- "Media" and "Site" menus have been rewritten.

- Rewrote the "Site History" section to include more detailed info on why I created the site, why I gave it the name that it has, why I like Sanji and past layouts. Hopefully it'll be more interesting for people to read now. ^^ Can you believe the site has been online for almost a full year now? And I've been working on it for longer!

- Credits have been updated again to reflect the recent changes.

- Linkage has been updated with some new links and I removed any that weren't functioning anymore for whatever reason.