The Anime Blog Awards was conceptualised on March 19, 2008 with the intention of recognising and celebrating the top blogs in the anime blogosphere, and seeks to achieve the following goals:

1. To serve as exposure for new bloggers.
2. To objectively measure a blog’s achievements by means of peer review.
3. To encourage readers to move out of their comfort zone by discovering new blogs.

Five bloggers of different backgrounds and influences make up the team responsible for The ABA — Impz of “THAT Anime Blog“, Owen S of “Cruel Angel Theses“, TheBigN of “Drastic My Anime Blog“, mellow_bunny of “mellowSPACE” and Akai of “Reinforce Network“, who have all contributed to the project in their own way.

Scheduled to take place from the 19th of March right up till the 20th of June, The ABA consists of 2 phases: In the first phase, nominations will take place from March 19th to April 22nd. This will be followed by the second phase from April 25th to May 15th where the public will be able to vote for the Readers’ Choice, with the bloggers voting for the Bloggers’ Choice concurrently. These are two different independent awards. Results will be released on the 1st of June.