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Hey, Answerman! - Eh, It's A Living

I never got around to sending in a response for this week's Answerfans, either. I was simply too busy!

I'm a freelance writer, and the focus of my writing is on anime, manga, and music; however, I have also written and published some poetry on the Internet as well.

I also do some editing work for one the major Internet publishing sites; the type of editing I do is to edit potential titles for the writers at the site to write on. I have to make sure spelling is correct, grammar is correct, and syntax is correct. In addition to that, I also help out my department's supervisor by auditing 15 of my co-workers every week. My husband, who has been writing and self publishing some books, has me look over his manuscripts to help catch any spelling, grammar, or logistical errors he may have overlooked.

I'm also a mom of three kids (ages 13, 10, and 6). I'm a member of the PTA at my younger children's school, and have been the webmaster of the PTA's website for several years. I also have some affiliation with the Cub Scouts; I've been helping out my husband, who is the den leader for our son's Cub Scout den, and I'm also the Badgemaster for our Cub Scout pack.

And in my "spare time" (ha ha), I'm cooking meals, cleaning the house, and doing the other housekeeping tasks that need to get done. And in the midst of all that, I still manage to find time to watch some anime and read some manga so I can write about them.

Sir, yes, sir!!

BSEE here, I'm the guy who figures out how best to put down 600 parallel wires in a space the width of a human hair: physical-level microchip design & verification. Been at it for 14 years, which probably makes me twice the age of the average anime fan.

Outside of anime, I'm a bit of a music nut & stereophile, I enjoy cooking, I play golf (very recreationally) and bowl (in a league), and waste far too much time on computer games.

One! Two! Two engineers! DA HA HA![/TheCount]

Technically it's 'ma'am', but I'll take 'sir' as well.

Anyways, wow, that's awesome what you do. I think micro technology (and smaller) is amazing. I was actually an EE for my first year of college, but I came to the conclusion that it wasn't for me. It was interesting enough, but I didn't have a passion for it. I ended up transferring over to another college that had BME available.

One! Two! Two engineers! DA HA HA![/TheCount]

Charred Knight wrote:

toyNN wrote: Redline didn't seem to have a big dvd/bd sales in Japan, under 4k I think on Oricon . I believe Zak and others who say its really good - but why not better sales? The audience it's aimed at simply isn't the audience that buys anime, if you are into K-On or Seikon No Quaser than you're probably not going to want to buy it.

That seems a bit confusing since I'd think the Redline committee thought they were making something for an audience that would be buying it after the theatrical run. But I seem to be seeing that it was a bit of a box-office failure too. So they made what some feel is a really good movie - just not many in Japan.

I guess one-off anime movies can have a difficult time if they don't hit it just right like a Summer Wars.