Resources

3dbooru – Danbooru-style imageboard for cosplay. Usually links to Cure.

BakaBT – Quality, complete torrents. Keep an eye on their RSS feed.

blogs ´n´ stuff – ZoiQ’s doujin and electronic music downloads.

Canned Dogs – Obscure and amusing news about doujinshi, eroge, and everything you need to know.

encubed – The only English language visual novel news blog you need.

ErogameScape – Japanese visual novel database comparable to Anime News Network. (NSFW)

Everything Shii Knows – Everything Shii knows, which is quite a lot. He’s an ADTRW alumni who was involved with the birth of 4chan. Pay particular attention to the Internet section.

Gensokyo.org – Touhou fan site; news on translations and scanlations.

Haiku Anime Review – Expressing beauty / in seventeen syllables / it’s really not bad.

Hunting the Elusive – Artbook and doujin scans; icie’s hunt for the elusive beauty of thighhighs and frilly skirts.

International Saimoe League – Where the uguu~ meets the hoe~ in a round of earth-shattering combat.

IQDB – Reverse image search for anything anime-related on the internet. Grab the addon too.

Mistakes of Youth – Read the first comic. You’ll love it or hate it.

Moetron – Timely anime news.

nattoli’s blog – Artbook reviews and pretty pictures.

Neko Magic – Prompt figure news.

Paper Dream – Daily inspiration, daily bishoujo.

Vocaloidism – Vocaloid news and weekly VocaRan/UtaRan.

Walfas – Amusing Touhou flashes.

xkcd – For all nerds. No exceptions.

4chan – You need it more than you think you do. /a/ for general anime, /jp/ for bishoujo and Touhou, and /m/ for mecha. Keep /rs/ in mind if you need to find things and Google is failing.