On 18th May 2026 All Anime World turned 25!

So there’s actually a reason to celebrate - if it weren’t for the fact that all our visitors have completely abandoned us.

But Sakura wouldn’t be Sakura if she hadn’t, in a nostalgic surge of emotion, set up the old website and browsed through it with tears in her eyes.

Over the past 25 years, a huge amount of content has accumulated. Many members of the forum helped contribute to the site. I actually found it sad that, due to time constraints, I never even tried to save the site. Shame on me! All Anime World is a relic from the “good old days.” With the website’s shutdown, countless memories have vanished from the web.

The old site was a place where I spent many years of my life. I made many friends there and collected many memories. It’s important to me that these memories aren’t lost and that the site continues to exist.

Well, the old site is beyond saving. I’ve found more security vulnerabilities in TYPO3 v4.7 than there are holes in a Swiss cheese. Neither the programming language nor the database is supported in any way. But with the technology available in 2026, it should be possible to restore that old thing, right?

Thanks to modern technologies like Symfony, Twig, Stimulus, Strapi, CSS3 (grid layouts), and Bootstrap 5 - and, last but not least, modern AI - it seems possible to me to restore the old site.

I've decided not to simply copy the old site, but to redesign it in a modern style that preserves the charm of the original. In doing so, I'll retain many of the old design elements and content, such as the 88x31 buttons, the retro frames, the old colors, and the old fonts.

All Anime World will live on!

To express my conviction, I’ve decided to put the unfinished site online. This puts some pressure on me to finish the site and allows you to watch me do it and support me with feedback.

That is, if anyone notices what I’m doing.