This is basically the steps of how the comic came to be and all the phases it went through getting to where it is now. If you're not interested in knowing the history of the comic, then this stuff probably won't interest you.

Early History
This comic really has been through quite a few different stages. I actually first began making comics back in 7th grade. I'd drawn all my life, (My first major period I remember was about 2nd-3rd grade drawing Spiderman. It evolved through Mortal Kombat, Spawn, and finally Legend of Zelda) but 7th grade was the first time I'd tried something with plot. At the time I had just learned about anime. I, like many others, learned about anime on Cartoon Network with DBZ and Sailor Moon. I studied the art and complex stories and began a DBZ ripoff comic called Dragon Ball Legends. It would be funny to someday unearth and post. My male characters looked like DBZ characters, my females like Sailor Moon. Both crappily done mind you.

Stages of Oranime
This comic stuck around for awhile, going through a bunch of different plots, arcs, and a few re-writes and restarts. The characters became less like the original looks as I got more into all the new animes and developed my own style. At one point I decided the Dragon Ball Legends title was a little cliché and decided to break away from the series. I had at some point used my main characters name (Oran) in a parody with the word anime to create the word Oranime. Since then the titles just stuck. As meaningful, or unmeaningful, as it was, I was never able to come up with a better title to adequately describe the comic. (Now it's a lot more meaningful)

Break from the comic
In my senior year of high school, I grew tired of the comic. I had re-started it so many times do to my art evolving so fast I thought the previous stuff looked horrible. (Or that my story didn't actually read well since I hadn't planned any of it, just drew on whims) I planned to make a new comic but instead spent a lot of time for awhile working on a Lord of the Rings parody comic and hanging out with friends on forums like the Megatokyo: Art and Drawing forums doing party threads.

Developing OrAnIMe
I never gave up on the new comic though and spent a great deal of time deciding what I liked and disliked about stories, how I wanted to pace it, and the general world and elements it would consist of. Basically, I actually planned the story and made it interesting/readable. When I reinvented the series, the title even found it's own specific meaning to the comic, though likely unclear to anyone the true meaning of it at that point. Finally in early 2006 I began putting everything to together and started drawing some of the comic. Once I got things calmed down in classes, I began thinking about the site and did some basic designs working with my cousin R.D. (Rocky in the comic is based on him) At the end of 2006 I began actually designing the site using what I'd learned about Dreamweaver from R.D. (I'd only known Frontpage from a High School class) and at the same time began coloring and editing the comic.

Comic Launch
The site was launched on November 24, 2006. Though the first couple pages were uploaded during December, I didn't publicly launch the site until the beginning of January 2007, when I felt I had worked the site's bugs out and had a couple comics up.

New Intro
On August 1st, 2008 I went back and cut up the 22 beginning comics into 12. For the longest time I realized how bad the beginning was, especially in comparrison to the type of story the comic followed. Frankly, if you came to the site, read a couple pages of the current stuff, and thought to start from the beginning, you'd just think it was some other comic entirely. This edit was done as a temporary solution until I could re-write/draw the beginning with something actually planned.