A Notice & A Question + A Message

The Notice: There'll be no Wednesday video for this week on the 10th, because next Wednesday on the 17th will be 'Everything GREAT About: Your Name' and in line with the prior big poll, they're uploaded as 1 whole video, skipping a week due to the difficulty in making them. Obviously Saturday's are unaffected.

The Question: During the last few BIG Anime Wins votes, there's been some anime scoring 0-1% of the vote. I was curious whether you'd all approve of removing those, which are:

Dragon Ball Z which got 0% last time

Dragon Ball that got 1%

The 1999 version of Hunter x Hunter which also got 1%

and replacing those with the following:

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Death Note

Code Geass R1 & R2

The reason, is that FMAB and Death Note, are long running anime that never fit into any other vote. Also Code Geass, I had long considered doing a remake on (full rationale below if you're interested) and so yeah, let me know what you think about switching these 3 for the next big vote.

Rationale: Code Geass was one of the first anime I watched, even before starting on YT in 2016. When it came time for me to do a Wins video on it, I was going full on in trying to build a career on the platform and at the time, was making FIVE videos a week. Save to say it didn't get the love it would have if it were made today. So I'd really like to put it up for the big vote, but also I'd be happy for it to be voted in for the long vote too (24 episodes).

The Message: I wanted to first wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year and a Happy Holidays in general. Next month in January 2026, I will have had a full time YT career lasting 9 years and it's literally been made possible because of all of you. It's at this time of year where I feel very humbled to have my voice and my thoughts being projected through your devices and into your homes where you watch my content. In all my years I have kept one thing in my mind, that you're my collective bosses and that remains true now. As a result I never take anyone for granted, I even often leave $1 patrons messages when they leave thanking them for their support, because to me, absolutely everyone who pledges is allowing me to continue my work, to put food on the table, to look after my dogs and their medical needs and everything else. Without you all I simply wouldn't be able to do this. So, thank you ALL so much for your continued support, whether you've been here a day or if you joined back in 2017 (of which there are quite a few!) I cannot thank you all enough.

Cal.

PS: Bit more about life if you're interested, Thor is now 7 years old and doing great, absolutely nothing wrong medically which is awesome in spite of his hip dysplasia diagnoses when he was just a year old! Titan is remarkably still going strong at nearly age 13 (in January), his eyes are under control with all of the medicine my amazing wife puts into them every single day, multiple times per day (I'm terrible with eyes lol) and his liver is doing real nice on the last blood test considering he's been on epilepsy medication for 11 years now. Also he had an in depth scan of his internal organs about 6 weeks ago and that too came back fine and dandy and thankfully he no longer needs to be knocked out for that since it's not a CAT scan, as we felt he was getting too old for that and he struggled to recover afterwards (we stopped it about 18-22 months ago). So yeah, no sign of his cancer now for 3 years! For context he had cancer in one anal gland at age 8, quickly found and removed and then nearly 2 years to the day at age 10 they found cancer in his other anal sack, quickly found and removed and now at nearly 13 he's still in the clear! Plus, if you're interested my marriage continues to be an absolute ROCK in my life, my wife and I have been together for 16 years and we strangely get on even better now than ever before, we just keep getting closer which is crazy lol.

I hope you liked this yearly update thing I did at the end, I've never done one before, so if you enjoyed it, let me know (on top of hopefully answering the question above about the anime) and I'll definitely look to do one per year or something.

Love to you all!