FlexibleAnatomy for allowing me to borrow Penny, for being helpful in shaping how they wanted her to be portrayed in the universe, and for just all around creating amazing artwork and being an awesome person. Seriously, keep up the amazing work, and thank you for all of the support throughout the years.
MagicJeans for allowing me to borrow Jean, for being helpful in shaping how they wanted her to be portrayed in the universe, and for being so fun and easy to talk to. You've been absolutely killing it with your renders recently also. Thanks so much and thank you for the support over the years.
quad2 for allowing me to borrow Rei, for helping with challenge design and shaping how they wanted her to be portrayed in universe (I'm realizing that this is probably going to be a universal one, but I'm still going to mention it). I'd like to make special mention of the fact that they created their own multi-part series inspired by ANGA. I'm insanely flattered that someone else would be crazy enough to try and do this, and I also really want to thank you for all the support you've given me over the years.
Ms-Frankie for allowing me to borrow Frankie, and cameo a couple of her other characters, and really there's too much to list in a single little blurb. Genuinely, short of writing the story for me, Frankie has helped keep the ship a rolling. You have my eternal gratitude.
James-MacCloude for allowing me to borrow the Schutter Family, for being helpful in shaping how they wanted them to be portrayed in universe, and for talking with me about several plot beats I wanted to see if I could cram into this season (I thought they turned out relatively well, so hey). Thank you so much for your continual support over the years.
Jeaune for allowing me to borrow Andrea. Similarly to Frankie, I have way too many things to list as thanks in this section to really do justice for how influential you've been this season. From challenge design, to character stuff, to participating in comments. Andrea, you have my eternal gratitude.
vanishedmagician for allowing me to borrow Phian, for being helpful in shaping how they wanted them to be portrayed in universe, and for talking with me to make sure that I was getting lore/ideas correct to portray them as accurately as possible. Thank you so much for the support, and for participating in the comments, and I really hope you enjoyed seeing Phian.
pwatson1974 for allowing me to borrow Peter, Lisa, Sarah, and many other characters, locations, and ideas from your works, for being helpful in shaping how they were to be portrayed in universe, for putting up with my incessant questioning about whether I was doing them justice, and for even considering inserting elements of the ANGA-verse in your own series. You've been an inspiration of mine for a while, and I think you do not get nearly enough recognition as you deserve. Thank you so much for the support.
winstonMP for allowing me to borrow Devon, and for being helpful in shaping how they were to be portrayed in universe. You've also been a massive inspiration of mine since the early days, and it was an honor to be able to work with one of your characters. Thank you so much!
cheesium for allowing me to borrow Melody and Steve, and for shaping how they were to be portrayed in universe. I'm pretty sure the Melody series was one of the first pieces of NBM lit I ever read, and so it still holds an extremely special place in my heart. To be allowed to feature, what is admittedly simply a facsimile of the characters in my own work, really means a lot to me, despite how simple a gesture it may seem. Thank you so much!
hogablah02 for allowing me to borrow Art and Amy, and for shaping how they were to be portrayed in universe. You create seriously amazing stuff, among the highest tier I'd say of anyone on this website, and just like with the Melody series, I'm pretty sure the Why Not? series was one of the first NBM stories I ever read on the internet. I'm extremely humbled by the opportunity to get to feature your characters in my own story. Thank you so much!
And finally, to everyone who voted and made each week an exciting game of, how is my heart going to break this week?
Well... I believe that's everything? My final thoughts? (Sorry if they're a little disjointed, I'm being blinded by the finish line... And the morning sun)
This season was one of the most grueling challenges I've ever done, I've experienced a lot of emotions, many of them good, many of them bad.
A lot of sleep deprivation. There were some weeks where I was operating on single digits of sleep. To that end, I'm pretty sure not a single episode released on the day it was supposed to. The average release time was about 3 am.
I think that this season was ultimately even stronger and better than season 2... But that might be recency bias. I will say, I think that this season had higher highs and lower lows... Which makes me annoyed because I'd like to be consistently better, but oh well...
And... That's it! I guess, I'd really appreciate it if you'd like to give me feedback for how you thought the season went. Either in comments, or if you're uncomfortable with that, shoot me a note or private message.
Thus concludes my annual shout into the void! Thank you so much for reading. Thank you so much for watching. I'm sorry for the horrible amounts of spam you've surely gotten in your watch box...
Until next time~
-Michael