I buy alot of anime. Will that damage my relationship with God?
You should know your reasons for buying anime, whether it's either a hobby or an obsession, and pay attention to whether it's influencing your behavior. Once you know those things, ask yourself whether it is actually taking time away from your relationship with God and making God less in your eyes. Sometimes a hobby can make God less essential in our lives, and you should always try to admit when you need to take time away from your anime to spend more time with Him.
If this is a matter of whether violence, sexuality, and language will corrupt you, that's not just a matter to be discussed about anime, but also about American movies and TV as well. It is also a central issue in the debate about censorship.
The best advice I can give you is that if you think anime is hurting your relationship with God, stop watching it. It's not worth putting yourself in spiritual danger over. If you're feeling guilty -- or someone else is telling you that you should feel guilty -- for watching shows with violence, sexuality, and language, then limit yourself to the cleaner shows and feel better. For example, I avoid any anime with lower male nudity. I can handle upper female nudity, since I'm a girl, and my husband isn't an immature brat (even though I sometimes cover his eyes to make me feel better). But even though we enjoy anime, we know that it comes from a culture with different social standards and moral values, and we take it thus. To enjoy it, sometimes you just have to accept that you don't like parts of it. A Christian does not have to compromise morality to be entertained, but a Christian who feels as if their morality is being compromised should always take appropriate steps.
Will the site ever start up again?
It's mostly a dead site, and all the intermittent email I've gotten about anime doesn't need to come through me -- it's easy enough to research something through Wikipedia or a simple Google review search these days. So I probably won't return to this project unless I start watching anime again. But if I do watch any more new anime, I'll be sure and jot down a review to post here. :)
