glorio
@glorio

April Fools is dead and we stopped doing jokes a long time ago, but we did have some real bangers. Every now and then one of us will fondly remember 2015 when we pretended it was 1995 for season previews, our best April Fools joke ever.

I don't remember how we first thought of the idea, but I know we committed to it when we realized how many huge series aired that year. Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gundam Wing... the list goes on. There was so much material to work with, we just had to do it.

I did my best to emulate the look of a very early internet website in Wordpress, including some of the best (worst) graphics I've ever made. We wrote posts about the actual anime episodes that would have aired that week. We tried to use the terminology and localization that would have been used at the time. Everyone knocked it out of the park, and it's still one of my favorite things we've done.

For easy access, I archived the posts on Tumblr with screenshots of what the site actually looked like. Also, if you want to read our posts, that's the fastest way to find them.


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