I've been a net.otaku now for about a year or so. During that time I've seen many sites that could only be called unique (at least in polite company). Some of these sites provide files or pictures that aren't available anywhere else, while some just make you wonder what the heck the author was on when he or she created the site. Without further ado, I present some the unusual, strange and just plain silly anime sites of the Internet...

You can get games, desktop themes, software, just about anything type of file you want related to anime on the Internet....

• Otaku World - Jenniko-Chan's Anime Toy Chest - Jenniko-chan has gathered *lots* of "unusual" anime-related games, screensavers, icons, and other goodies. While you're visiting the Toy Chest, check out Otakuworld itself. Otakuworld offers several anime desktop themes, the KISS doll page and the new "Kamibashi" storytelling system.
• Sailor Moon Quake Page- Are you addicted to Quake? How about adding an anime twist? The guys who run this page update it nearly everyday, and provide everything you need in order to have a "Moon Prism Power" Quake experience. (For a really surreal experience try what a buddy of mine does... Play Sailor Moon Quake while listening to surf music....)
• L.J. Newt's Anime Arcade ! - There's a number of fun Ranma and Oh My Goddess! games here created by L.J. himself. My personal favorite is Ranma Invaders - Space Invaders with Akane throwing mallets...
• Anime Items To Spruce Up Your Desktop - Exactly what it says, this site is a good place to make your computer into an otaku's paradise.

One of the first pages I created for HammerSpace was a "You know you're addicted Ranma 1/2 when..." page. Since then I've found two others on the web...

• You know your addicted to Ranma when... - A nice page, not real extensive, but rather entertaining.
• Ranma 1/2 - YKYBWTMR12W: - A long list, unfortunately some of the items appear to be "in jokes" between the author and his friends.

Sometimes you can find anime-related "web-based services"...

• Send a Anime e-card- Send an otaku friend an online card! You can choose from a variety of shows. The reciever of your card is notified by e-mail that he has a card. He's then given a code that he should use in order to pick it up.
• ICQ List - ICQ Anime Edition - ICQ is a program that allows you to find out when your friends are online. You can also send messages, files or chat with anyone else online. The maintainers of this site are trying to list all of the anime fans that are registered with ICQ.

Finally there are sites that are just really strange...

• The Worst Sailor Moon Pages - The people who run this site review Sailor Moon pages, with (often harsh) descriptions of each. If you're looking for truly awful sites, just jump to their "Worst Sailor Moon Site of the Month".
• Welcome to Anime University - Want to become an anime character but don't feel that you have the know-how in order to do so? Well, why not visit this site and enroll for next semester?
• The Anime Purity Test - Do you watch those adult animes like Uroskidoji or La Blue Girl? Think you're the most perverted of hentais? Why not take this test and find out?
• 101 Things to do with a Dead Totoro - A totoro is a cute cuddly raccoon from the anime My Neighbor Totoro. Why would someone want to create a website like this? Beats me. I guess they just had a lot of dead totoros on their hand and needed something to do with them...
• Laws of Japanese Animation - If you've watched anime for awhile you might have noticed that the characters often can ignore basic physics principles, but like all things, anime does follow some type of laws....
• Emiko's Genesis Genesis... the birthplace of all anime characters. Emiko Kawasaki works enforcing the laws around and in Genesis. Emiko's Agent, Ian, has set up this site and produces a manga of his own in order to chronicle the exploits of Emiko, her sidekick, Mai, and all of the other weird and wonderful Genesis characters.

  Emiko Kawasaki Mai-chan

Well, that's it for this time. Special thanks to Ace Band Age for suggesting the Surfer music\Sailor Quake combination, and to Emiko's Agent for allowing Emiko's and Mai's pictures to appear in this feature. If you have any suggestions, comments or questions, please mail them to me.

Want to read more reviews of anime webpages? Check out Ryan Matthews monthly column Last Exit on the Anime Turnpike.