Dear Kyuuten.net,

I want to keep what you were. Who knows what you will be, and in some time, I’ll write this again and say who you are. Your history is important to me.

In 2010, many ideas came to mind for something new. Something special. There was the idea of using Japanese words for name. Namecheap were having a sale on domains, and I couldn’t resist, so I began brainstorming names.

I had studied Japanese in high school for four years, so I used my rusty knowledge as a basis for thinking up names.

You know what you could have been? You could have been uyoku (wings), aijou (love), airashii (lovely/adorable), kanjou and jousho (feeling/emotion), or kokimi (sentiment).

But, I thought that kyuuten was the one I liked the most:

kyuuten — Japanese for sky, heavens, or palace

One of my favourite animes is Tenku no Shiro Rapyuta, or, in English — Laputa/Castle in the Sky, a 1986 film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is also the first film created and released by Studio Ghibli, and I love their films. That’s what inspired me. It may be years, decades, before I own that fanlisting, but it was what inspired me to create what was ultimately a collective of anime fanlistings, few and far between.

You were the Diamond Skies Network. And that’s what you’ll always be, in my head.

♥ Georgie