Fandom Paradise

A review series created by John "The Shades" Tague. In it, he looks at top-quality Fan-Made projects in the anime and video game world.

Evolution of the series
One of the first videos The Shades produced was a Top Ten list of the best Anime Music Videoes (AMVs) of the time, back on Janurary 30, 2009. Afterwards, he decided to review the best AMVs around, thus he created "AMV Paradise". It was based off of "That Guy With The Glasses" video contributor "That Dude in the Suede", who also priased AMVs and featured his favorites. The Shades produced 15 episodes of "AMV Paradise", and posted several them on a small-time anime site.

When he left the site in July of 2009, The Shades decided to evolve the series into something bigger. From that point, he decided to include features on Fan Art and Fan Fiction as well as other forms of Anime fandom that he comes across. Thus began "Fandom Paradise", the second form of this series. His first feature, Fan Artist Shianily "Kate-Chan" Torres, Was actually a close friend of The Shades and his Wife, Lady Kaeru. On Janurary 21, 2010, The Shades ran into trouble finding enough suitable material for only anime fandom. On that days episode of the show, The Shades announced he would began including Video Game fandom as along with continuing the anime fandom he was featuring.

Shades's Capture
On Semptember 24, 2009, The Shades began a story arc leading to the return of one of his other series, Anime Takeover. In this first episode of this arc, Haruhi Suzumiya, upset that The Shades insulted the second season of her anime series, invaded the island where The Shades hosts "Fandom Paradise" and forced him to feature a collection of Haruhi-related AMVs. Upon completing the episode, Haruhi left the island, and The Shades broke free of his bonds. Immediately afterwards, he ran into another individual, and was re-captured by then-unknown assailants. At this time, the show was run by The Shades' Emergency Computer, which began airing "Previously Recorded" episodes of the show, meanwhile it began deciphering clues.

After making contact with both The Shades and his wife, The Lady Kaeru, they were able to deduce the captors as the members of the Ouran High School Host Club. It was shortly after this that they discovered his location and rescued him, leading to a review of The Host Clubs anime series on Anime Takeover.

AMV Paradise
Click the AMV name to see the AMV itself. Click the Episode Date to see The Shades' Feature