My Top 5 Highest Viewed Posts (At This Time) No. 2

Welcome, fellow Otaku & Metalheads, to the 2nd anniversary of the Heavy Metal Otaku blog!

I’m still riding off of the emotions of my Metal Overview on Ministry from a few days ago, but September is a new month, and I’m gonna put up a bright face! To show off this face, I’ve got some celebration posts to get up here, starting off with another edition of my top 5 highest viewed posts. This is definitely a weirder collection of reviews & lists, and you might do a double-take in the process of looking at this. Anyways, let’s dive in, and see what this year’s top 5 highest viewed posts are. Enjoy!

5) Convention Review: Connecticon 2015 (Currently at 38 views)

As with my original list last year, I searched through my entire collections of reviews, lists, and other random posts to see what you guys were looking at the most, and we start off this list with a look at Connecticon from last year. The way I wrote it, to what I liked about it, almost seems like night & day. Even my temper in both reviews was different, but I don’t think I need to explain why. Getting that out of the way, I liked Connecticon 2015, and that’s all I got to say.

4) Anime (Episode) Review - Monster Musume Ep. 1 (Currently at 40 views)

Now this one has me baffled. I reviewed the full show in October of last year, but took a look at the first episode in August around the time that the series began airing. You would have thought that my review for the full series would have had the higher amount of views, but this is probably the Twilight Zone, so we got the reverse. I will gush about Monster Musume forever, and in the review of this episode I definitely did that!

3) Convention Review: Genericon 2016 (Currently at 42 views)

I kinda admit I hit a small nerve with this one. When I wrote this, I said in the “bad” section that it was a shame that Robert Alexrod was asking for money for his autographs. When I put the link for the review on Genericon’s Facebook page, I got into a small tit-for-tat with someone who went to the convention, but truth be told I’ve basically forgotten how things ended. As far as Genericon this year, I liked it a lot. Way more so than Connecticon this year, that’s for sure. The changes to the Dealers Room & Registration were huge, and made the con this year feel far more larger than it was in prior years. A great con to start 2016.

2) My Top 10 Books (Currently at 74 Views)

I said this when I put this out way back in January, and I’ll say it here: this one was a challenge. It’s not that I didn’t know what was going to be on there, but more as to how I would present them. It’s amazing that this top 10 list got so many views as it did, since I didn’t expect some of you to like it. Regardless, I thought that this was one of my more intriguing top 10 lists, and was a lot of fun to get up. I’ve got a companion list for this a few months down the line, but I can’t spoil things yet. Despite not spoiling things, my top 10 books probably gave you guys some new reading material, so there’s that.

1) Metal Overview - Turmion Kätilöt (Currently at 84 views)

Really? This is the currently highest viewed post on this blog? Okay then, I guess.

Truth be told, I’m more surprised than anything. The bands I covered before were very popular, so covering a group that not many people here in the states would have heard of was a big risk. Judging by how many views there are, I may have been wrong. The second challenge of this Overview was finding information: Turmion Kätilöt come from Finland, and info about bands from foreign countries can be tricky to locate. Even Wikipedia had a hard time, but despite the difficulty I managed to do it. The more views this overview gets, the happier I’ll be.

So these were my tip 5 highest viewed posts no. 2. Certainly a stranger bunch than last year, but the stranger the better. Anyways, I’ll see you next week for part 2 of this 2nd celebration of the Heavy Metal Otaku blog, where we’ll look at something else that helped me out a decade ago. Don’t worry: it won’t be anywhere as depressing as a few days ago. See you then!



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If you’d like to see what my highest viewed posts from last year were, check out the link below.

Top 5 Highest Viewed Posts (At This Time)