- Legends of Localization - a site run by the translator for the Mother 3 Fan Translation project who has much experience in the field professionally as well. lots of interesting looks at translation and localization from japanese to english (sometimes the other way around too)
- AnimeThemes - a repository of anime opening and ending themes. the most noteworthy thing about this site to me is that this collects the highest-fidelity/resolution versions whenever possible, so this is the easiest way to see, for example, 1080p Bluray-quality G Gundam opening 1
- Bogleech - a cool site for learning lots about fictional monsters and real-life weird bugs and animals. mostly the former. my fav is the Dragon Quest Monsters overview
- Jeremy Parish's YouTube Channel - former 1up writer and Retronauts podcast host primarily focusing on his [console] works series, wherein he takes a look at historical context surrounding the release of a given video game platform as well as every single game released for it, in chronological order. almost no funny stuff, very dry, very informative, just the way i like it
- Jan Misali - a youtube person who primarily is known for their 'Conlang Critic' series wherein they review constructed languages, but also has some other interesting videos analyzing games, counting systems, and more. the Conlang Critic stuff is my fav but the "Languages in Games" one is also fascinating imo
- Errant Signal - one of my fav games critics on youtube, i'm currently loving his "Children of DOOM" series, though i would also like to highlight the video on the Tony Hawk series as it was responsible for me rediscovering my love for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (Gamecube, 2001)
- VGMusic - one of the first websites i found when i was discovering the web in 2004. these guys are still up here, shout-outs to them, still looking exactly the same as the day i found them. more practically speaking, if you want to analyze game soundtrack compositions, you can easily just download one of these midis and open it up in the midi editor of your choice
- obscure video games - just a tumblr that posts random screencaps (sometimes animated, sometimes not) of obscure games. usually not much info with them but i think that's part of the charm. they do tend to at least include name, platform, and release year
- Burgers in Anime - a blog ran by a friend. does what it says on the tin, nothing more, nothing less
- Architecture in Hentai - a SFW blog run by another friend that compiles instances of real-life architecture (sometimes famous) in hentai. it's just pictures of the architecture (alongside remarks on its usage in the work or the artist's ability to render it and (a) photo(s) of the real architecture in question)
- WWWTXT - a twitter account that compiles a bunch of real online conversations posted between 1980-1994. pretty cool to see how similar and also how different online was back then
- Cool Box Art - pretty self-explanatory again. sometimes it's clearly uncool box art imo so i'm not sure what's up with that, but often it is of some interest or coolness
- Random Sakuga - random clips of sakuga (particularly high-quality animation scenes in anime, i.e. "where the budget went") from random anime, with attribution to original artists when possible (which is almost always). very rarely NSFW, said posts are always flagged as such
- AnimArchive - scans of anime/manga/game-related material from the late 70s to the early 00s, but more often from the mid-80s to the late 90s. primo aesthetics in here
- Grim Synergies - a bizarre wiki of a fantasy world some friends have been collaborating on for nearly a decade. "a voynich manuscript for the digital age" -another friend
