The Hermit Emerges

Hey all! This is a bit of an odd post, but I wanted to let everyone know I've been taking an extended break from most social media platforms, for the sake of a breather and a few other things. If I haven't responded to anyone's messages on those platforms, I promise I'm not trying to snub you.

I AM checking my Gmail though, so you can still reach me that way or by leaving a comment here on this blog.

And speaking of kenisu's Magicant, I've been seeing unusual spikes in traffic the past several weeks. I call this unusual because I've had trouble lately getting Google to allow this site to appear in Internet searches, and last I checked, it still wasn't indexed. Naturally, I'm worried I may have picked up a bot problem somehow, but my optimistic side has its fingers crossed this place really is getting better visibility.

Thanks everyone!

Who's that Ana? Now we know!

I meant to leave any new posts for that long-awaited (long long long long looooong-awaited) new Encyclopedia excerpt, but this news is just too cool not to give an update on:

The girl who played Ana in the famous MOTHER TV commercial has been identified in this Reddit post!

Reddit user u/No_Kaleidoscope_4359 gives us this info:

I am not very familiar with this game, but a kind redditor helped me find this lost ad my mom has talked about for years. My mom was a model in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s while my grandfather served in the US Navy. She always told me about one of her favorite projects, and advertisement where she got to fight a giant robot. I was so excited to come across more of the digital media from this project!

My mom also did some projects with Sega Genesis, and a few other things with Nintendo that I'm trying to find. Her name, at the time, was Laurel Dollahon. If anybody has any more pictures from production or anything like that, let me know! She would be tickled to see them!

She doesn't remember who the other two kids were, but this was an unexpected and very pleasant surprise, especially to learn how fond she must be of the memory of working on the MOTHER commercial, if she's talked about it so much for years!