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OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF "MAINTAINED ONLY" SITE STATUS

I've been putting off making this sort of an

           official announcement, but I might as well. As one long-term member 
           put it, it seems everything that could be said has been said. Over 
           the course of its life, this site has ballooned into a fantastic 
           collection of El-Hazard information, and covers virtually every 
           significant (and even some insignificant) aspect of 
           El-Hazard.

Historically, this site was created as "El-Hazard: 
           The Online Episode Guide", and kept the name for a long time, 
           despite the ironic twist that it never in fact became a good source 
           of episode guides. (The OAV2 and Alternative World sets were never 
           completed!) But instead the site expanded into a general El-Hazard 
           information site and managed to capture a lot of the great and small 
           things that El-Hazard generated besides the main show. A lot of 
           anime series are hard-pressed to find such a concrete website of 
           general information.

Of course, my thanks go out to the loyal 
           fans who had contributions and corrections for me over time. This 
           site wasn't built by only one or two people, but a whole community. 
           Many found friendships here, or at the very least other fans to 
           share their El-Hazard experience with. It was also through the 
           general populous that the eventual final name for the site -- simply 
           "El-Hazard Online" -- was generated, as everyone continuously fondly 
           referred to it under the simple ancronym of "EHOL."

For all 
           these reasons, I will continue to foot the bill for El-Hazard Online 
           and its domain name for the foreseeable future, even though this 
           site has pretty much achieved its peak and I doubt it will 
           functionally change [maybe] ever again. (Unless [when pigs fly?] 
           another El-Hazard series or something is produced...) I'm glad I was 
           able to give so much to even the few people that this site 
           touched.

I will keep the forums open to anyone who wishes to 
           ask anything El-Hazard related. The good news is that a lot of our 
           "elders" continue to visit El-Hazard Online anyway, so there is a 
           good chance that a question will be answered. Also for historical 
           value, the "Links" page of this site has maintained an ancient 
           layout look (which was prior to all the Perl-CGI madness that now 
           powers this page.) Of course, for more history, use the <A 
           href="http://www.archive.org/" target=_top>Wayback Machine</A> for a 
           lot of amazing past 
 memories...