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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 Wayback Machine for a lot of amazing past memories...

Pretty much everything on this page is the copyright of Pioneer / AIC. Use of the pictures, trademarks, etc. on this page is not intended to claim ownership or to profit from these materials. In fact, with any luck, Pioneer will profit thanks to us. ;p I actually sincerely hope so. --Bob, Site Owner