Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5683044-20170101000221

Hi. This is Driller from the administration team.

We would like to congratulate everyone for an excellent 2016. Welcome to 2017, a year without logic or mind.

Anyways, if you want to stick around for a little longer, The Drillimation Series is becoming a vast topic on both the Dream Logos Wiki and the Dream Fiction Wiki. The series is a large franchise from Japan that centers on both an anime and a video game series. Since its start in Japan, the anime and games have become one of the best-selling video game franchises worldwide and has been translated into more than fifty languages.

The story combines the coming of age tale with the mystical world of drilling and magic alike. The original franchise consists of three anime series, which I'll cover below. The franchise was created by Hiroshi Takajima, who coined the ideas when he was in college. In Takajima's senior year, he created Susumu Hori, who would go on to become one of the world's most recognizable anime and game characters. The anime goes like this:


 * The Space Ninja Team Star Trigon series follows the adventures of a young teenage boy named Wataru Hoshi who wants to get rid of the evil Team Ankoku hacktivist group. Meanwhile, a group of people from a group named Team Star Trigon invites Wataru to join them. While there, he befriends Miyuki Takara, a beautiful, know-it-all, pink-haired meganekko (glasses-wearing girl) who would later go on to join the Lucky Stars (see below) and to help him overcome dangerous obstacles set by Team Ankoku. They became good friends after the duo won a grand prix at the Driller Engine Grand Prix Double Dash Classic tournament in Guy City, RG. However, her help on Wataru overcoming these obstacles eventually caused him to fall in love with her.
 * The Magical Girl Team Lucky Star series follows the story of a beautiful blue-haired girl named Konata Izumi as she goes from a young, half-orphaned girl to one of the most famous drillers in the world. When she was five months old, her mother, Kanata Izumi, was murdered by one of the evilest drillers of all time, being Dr. Manhole. The entire anime revolves around her connection to Manhole, but however, at the beginning of the anime, her mother is reincarnated as something called a "youkai", which is one of the two races in the Drillimation universe. The story also revolves her mother as she turns a prom event into a royal coronation of the Izumi Clan at the Lucky Star Kingdom. At the event, Konata befriends the prince of the kingdom, being Susumu Hori, who is also one of the world's most famous drillers and eventually falls in love with him.
 * The Mr. Driller Drill Spirits series is the last anime in the story, and it revolves around Susumu Hori who must defeat Dr. Manhole in their final battle after Team Driller and the Lucky Stars destroyed all of his horcruxes, which is an object that contains a part of a person's soul that causes them to become immortal. However, before Dr. Manhole's last stand, Konata is captured and uses her soul to revive the three admins of Team Ankoku: Keel Sark, Eguri Hatakeyama, and Kowars. However, Susumu rescues Konata and defeats Manhole anyways, ending his terror.

Themes of romance, war, persecution, and death are frequent throughout the anime and speak to a large audience. However, the anime is designed to be comedic as the three main characters grow, get into trouble, and defeat the forces of evil set by Team Ankoku.

Overview of my events in 2016:
 * January: Began the final term of the 2015 - 2016 school year. Drillimation experienced their second major server failure in just three years, with the first being March 2013.
 * February: Destroyed the sprite horcrux from Hearthcliffe.
 * March: Finished my second year at high school. Went to Hiroshima for spring break.
 * April: Began the first term of the 2016 - 2017 school year as a third-year student (there are four years at my school).
 * May: Hiroki graduates high school.
 * June: My brother gets a new phone.
 * July: Finished the first term of school. Went to Hiroshima for a few days to celebrate my brother Hiroki's graduation from high school.
 * August: Had surgery to remove impacted wisdom teeth. Second worst summer break ever beating 2012. Hearthcliffe also returns to Minecraftia after a yearlong disappearance.
 * September: Began the second term of school. Kagami Ochiai gets thrown in the hospital after having an allergic reaction.
 * October: Turned 17 on the 25th. The Dream Logos Wiki theme also changed for that month.
 * November: Saw Doctor Strange and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Got Pokémon Sun and Moon on launch day. Drillimation also returned the ownership of Creation Wiki back to TheChromePerson.
 * December: Saw Rouge One: A Star Wars Story on launch day. I did not have school the day it came out, and this was really the first time I got to see a movie on launch day. One of our staff members, Ryuta Shigematsu, suddenly fell ill due to cancer but speedily recovered. Went to Hiroshima for a week for Christmas break. We sold the house my grandmother formerly lived in after she died last year. My mother got me a drone for Christmas and I didn't realize it.

You may also realize that I have changed the theme for the new year. The theme will remain up for a whole week before returning to normal.

This is Driller signing off. 