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abunai
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I'm going to make a wild guess and say that you're a good bit over 30. Not many people read A.E. van Vogt these days. It takes an oldschool SF fan to list Slan as a favourite. - abunai |
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Buster Blader 126
 Posts: 1206 Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
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Name: Kevin
Age: 17 Pets: None Ethnicity: Cantonese Chinese Marital Status: Single Religion: Christian Drink or Smoke: Neither. Can't stand the taste of beer and wine out of the ones I've sampled, and I just don't like smoking. It's not healthy, after all. Favorite Food/Drink: For food, it's dried bean curd sheets. It tastes greater than it sounds, depending on how you add flavour to it.  As for drinks, I love grape soda and apple juice.
Favorite Games: The Dynasty Warriors games, the Soul Calibur games, the Ratchet and Clank games, and Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Favorite Bands/Music Artists: Kotoko, High and Mighty Color, UVERworld, Billy Talent Favorite Anime: Pokémon. I kid you not. I love Pokémon as much as Japanese kids love Doraemon (apparantly). it's my absolute favourite. Other favourites are Witch Hunter Robin, Please Teacher!, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Shuffle!, Bleach, Trinity Blood, Paradise Kiss, Rumbling Hearts/Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, School Rumble, and Yakitate!! Japan. Favorite Movies: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Shrek movies, the American Pie series, Eurotrip, 5 Centimeters Per Second Favorite Manga: I"s, Love Hina, Genshiken, School Rumble, Black Cat, Paradise Kiss, Monster, Ichigo 100%, and Dragon Head Favorite Manga Authors: Ken Akamatsu, Ai Yazawa Favorite Type of Manga: Comedy, Romance, and Drama, Any combination of the three are fun too. I also enjoy action/adventure genre. Favorite Books/Comics: For books, Eleanor Rigby and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. For comics, I love my Garfield and Charlie Brown. Favorite Non-Manga Authors: Douglas Coupland Favorite Bookstore/Website To Buy From: select anime/manga shops in the area/GTA. Favorite Place to Read: Doesn't really matter, though I do enjoy reading on a beanbag chair. When Did You Start Reading Manga/Books: Almost 2 years ago. My curiosity as to how the Love Hina anime and manga were different lead me into the world of manga. Worst Manga/Book You've Read: Don't have one. I'm pretty open-minded when it comes to these things, so I can always find something enjoyable out of what I read. Other Hobbies: Watching anime, video games, hanging out with friends, playing select sports Pet Peeves: Lies with bad intent, second-hand smoke, and other things that I can't think of at the moment. I have a pic of myself in the anime introduction page. I might link it here when I have the time. |
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mistress_reebi
Posts: 735 Location: Canada |
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Whenever I played it when I was younger, Koopa was the fastest I found. Haven't played it in like ten years but I remember my friends and I faught over Koopa. |
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kyokun703
 Posts: 2505 Location: Orgrimmar |
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I did most of this in the Meet ANN-Anime thread, but I'll do it here, too, although I'm not here as much.
Name: kyokun703 Age: 30s Pets: None, although I wish I had a house so I could have a medium-sized dog. I love dogs so much. Ethnicity: Japanese American, 4th generation. Marital Status: Single Religion: Very very agnostic (but hey, you never know) Drink or Smoke: Love beer. Wine's pretty good, as long as it's not too dry. Hard alcohol can taste good, but it also makes me the sickest fastest. Worst drink I ever had was orange vodka and wine. I hate my friend for even thinking that might be okay (I was still relatively new to drinking then). No smoking. Favorite Food/Drink: I don't really have a favorite food, 'cause I absolutely love food. Usually I tend to like carby things, and ethnic, spicy things. Favorite Games: World of Warcraft, Settlers of Catan, any type of spelling game Favorite Bands/Music Artists: A little bit of everything. Um... Goldfrapp, Franz Ferdinand... Daft Punk, Linkin Park... hard rock, alternative, modern rock from the late 80s/early 90s. I'm really sleepy right now and not thinking clearly from staying up to watch the Harry Potter midnight movie. Favorite Anime: Princess Tutu, RahXephon, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop, Fruits Basket, Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto and Bleach (sans filler), Yakitate!! Japan, Ouran High School Favorite Movies: Searching for Bobby Fisher, Shawshank Redemption, Fried Green Tomatoes, Kung Fu Hustle, Clueless Favorite Manga: Hana Kimi, Fruits Basket, Bleach, Naruto, Yakitate!! Japan, Ouran High School, Yotsubato, Paradise Kiss Favorite Manga Authors: Don't really have any Favorite Type of Manga: Action, Romance, Drama, Comedy Favorite Books/Comics: Good Omens, Last Herald Mage Trilogy, Tam Lin (by Pamela Dean), Stephanie Plum series, Women of the Otherworld series, Just Listen (by Sarah Dessen), Memory and Dream (by Charles de Lint), Phedre series (by Jacqueline Carey), Runaways comic, Buffy Season 8 comic, Age of Apocalypse comics (alternative X-men world) Favorite Non-Manga Authors: Terry Pratchett, Janet Evanovich, Sarah Dessen, Charles de Lint Favorite Bookstore/Website To Buy From: amazon (I have it linked up so that my purchases give a percentage to pflag) Favorite Place to Read: Lunch time in the break room, my bed before I go to sleep When Did You Start Reading Manga/Books: I don't remember when I started reading manga. It was a slow start. It's kind of reached the explosion stages now. My mom says I taught myself how to read at 3, and I've been reading ever since. I remember checking out piles and piles of books at the library. Worst Manga/Book You've Read: Real Bout High School for manga. I don't remember reading a book I absolutely hated. If I did, I would've stopped reading it. Other Hobbies: Anime, reading non-manga, World of Warcraft, hanging out with friends Pet Peeves: Homophobia, people who talk on the cell phones too loudly, or try to drive while talking and it's obvious they can't, girls who have like 3" of thong sticking out above their pants/skirt, poor hygiene (especially irritating at conventions), our president, and other extreme fundamentalist religion nuts (not religion in general) Picture is in the other thread. Last edited by kyokun703 on Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:54 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Not a Jellyfish
 Posts: 539 Location: Boston, MA |
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JGreen, I'd like to play Mario Kart with you sometime. I've found few who could hold a candle against me and my Toad awesomeness.
Name: Laura Age: 21 (almost 22) Pets: 1 Kitten named Crookshanks, 2 Cairn Terriers named Kyleakin and Inuki, and 1 dearly missed Cairn named Shona Ethnicity: European/American mutt Marital Status: Not married but in a relationship Religion: Baptized Catholic as an adult, but now I’m a mix of agnostic, Christian, Wiccan, Buddhist etc… Drink or Smoke: I love me some Vodka. Don’t smoke though. Favorite Food: Mushrooms, Pasta, anything Italian or Japanese, Tofu, anything vegetarian Favorite Drinks: Cranberry Juice, or like I said anything with Vodka. Favorite Games: Valkyrie Profile, Zelda (Any and All), Donkey Kong Country, Mario 3, Wetrix, Silent Hill series, Shin Megami Tensei series, KH 1, 2, and Chain of Memories, Golden Sun, Just about anything on DS, The Sims, Katamari series, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, Viva Pinata, Pikmin, Kirby games, Viewtiful Joe, Pokemon, Fable, Panzer Dragoon, Gears of War Favorite Bands:Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, The Clash (I <3 Joe Strummer), Primus, New Pornographers, Something Corporate, local indie bands, Death Cab for Cutie, The Weepies, Dashboard Confessional, Bright Eyes, mc chris, XTC, I also love 80s and 90s music Favorite Anime:Anything Miyazaki, Kino’s Journey, Berserk, Witch Hunter Robin, Beck, Cowboy Bebop, Furuba, Ghost in the Shell movies 1 and 2, Saikano, Princess Tutu Favorite Movies: Anything Monty Python, Emperor’s New Groove, Disney movies, musicals, The Last Unicorn, AI, science of Sleep, Pan’s Labyrinth, 300, Chinese martial arts movies, Fight Club, Donnie Darko Favorite Manga: X/1999, Berserk, Beck, Death Note, Saikano, Claymore, Fushigi Yugi, Tramps Like Us, Tsubasa, NANA, Nodame Cantabile, Planet Ladder, Nausicaa, Marmalade Boy, Clover, Aria, Battle Angel Alita, Lament of the Lamb, Jing: King of Bandits, Yotsubato, Kashimashi, Mushushi, Phoenix, To Terra, Ode to Kirihito, Buddha Favorite Manga Authors: CLAMP, Kentaro Miura, Osamu Tezuka, Arina Tanemura, Wataru Yoshizumi, Watase Yuu, Katsuhiro Otomo Favorite Type of Manga: I like a little bit of everything. I would read more josei and seinen if more were widely available in the states. Comedy, romance, action titles especially, but truly, I just love great art, unique stories, and something that’s going to move me emotionally one way or another. Favorite Books: Harry Potter, The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Memoirs of a Geisha, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Book Thief, Sword of Truth series, Series of Unfortunate Events, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Giver, Anthem, Books about Norse Mythology (Poetic Edda, etc) Favorite Non-Manga Authors: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Miller, Terry Goodkind, JRR Tolkien, Lemony Snicket, Arthur C Clarke, Shel Silverstein, Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, Ayn Rand, Madeleine L’Engle, Bruce Coville Favorite Comics: I’m only recently getting into non-Japanese comics, but I really love Blankets by Craig Thompson, Cerebus the Aardvark, the Flight anthology series, Maus, and V for Vendetta Favorite Bookstore/Website To Buy From: Barnes and Noble, Best Buy for anime Favorite Place to Read: Absolutely anywhere When Did You Start Reading Manga/Books: I’ve been reading ever since I can remember. Honestly, I don’t remember learning to read. I think I was 3. But manga, I started reading in about 2002, just before graduating High School. My first manga was Chobits. Worst Manga/Book You've Read: I believe it was something called Broken Angels. I could hardly get past the first 20 pages; even if it was supposed to be better later. Ugh. Pet Peeves: Bad driving, bad grammar, bad habits, and bad posture. Far too many other things bother me that it would take ages to put it all on paper (or the internet) Other Hobbies: Obviously, I collect video games and manga. I like to think I have a pretty decent collection. I’m a self-professed Nintendo fan-whore. I also thoroughly enjoy studying anthropology (other cultures included) and oddly, I really like marketing. I work at both a bookstore and a video game store, so my hobbies are fueled by my jobs. And I plan on opening my own business. I really like movies, music, and fashion. I also love randomness and sarcasm. |
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Urd
 Posts: 317 Location: Paris, France |
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Name: You can call me Bernard.
Age: 21 Pets: myself Ethnicity: half french, half chinese Marital Status: single Religion: myself Drink or Smoke: sometimes Favorite Food/Drink: Fanta grape Favorite Games: Marvel vs Capcom 2, Street Fighter, Hokuto no Ken, Soul Calibur, Guilty Gear... Favorite Anime:The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Maison Ikkoku, Space Battleship Yamato, The Legend of the galactic heroes, Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Gundam 0083, Gundam 0080, Lupin the Third, Cowboy Bebop. Favorite Movies:The Legend of the galactic heroes:Overture to a New War, Ninja Scroll, The Graduate. Favorite Manga:Hokuto no Ken, Touch, Glass no Kamen (Glass Mask), Devilman, Ashita no Joe, Doraemon, School Rumble, Galaxy Express 999, Sailor Moon, Miyuki, Short Program, Mermaid Saga, Ranma, The Rose of Versailles, Berserk, Lady Georgie, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Aqua/Aria, Psychometrer Eiji, Black Jack. Favorite Manga Authors:Jin Kobayashi, Suzue Miechi, Rumiko Takahashi, Mitsuru Adachi, Leiji Matsumoto, Gou Nagai. Favorite Type of Manga:Shoujo, Seinen, Shounen, Yuri, hentai... Favorite Books/Comics:The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas), Hernani (Victor Hugo), The Wild-Ass's Skin (Honoré de Balzac), The Ice People (Barjavel) Eugénie Grandet (Honoré de Balzac), The Stranger (Albert Camus), The Miserable Ones (Victor Hugo), The Flowers of Evil (Baudelaire). Favorite Non-Manga Authors:Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Balzac. Favorite Bookstore/Website To Buy From:anywhere is fine Favorite Place to Read:my bed When Did You Start Reading Manga/Books:I can't remember Worst Manga/Book You've Read:Bleach ? GTO ? Other Hobbies:Reading ? Listening to classical music and jazz. |
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smoochy
 Posts: 367 Location: Texas |
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Ha ha, you'd actually be quite off, I was raised by hardcore sci-fi fans and Van Vogt was like Scripture in my house, along with Asimov and Heinlein. |
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LilacShadow
 Posts: 165 Location: Kentucky |
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Name: My real first name is Marie. You really don't need to know anymore than that.
Age: Teenager Pets: cats--Precious, Mimiru, Kyo, Cutie Pie, Midnight, White Nose, Chiyo, Shippo, Patrick, and 3 of Cutie Pie's kittens that don't have names yet; dog--Lucky; turtle-- Henryeta Ethnicity: Caucasian Marital Status: Single Religion: Agnostic Drink or Smoke: I'm not old enough to drink, and I think alcohal smells terrible anyway. I find smoking very gross too, but my dad smokes constantly so I guess I can tolerate it. Favorite Food/Drink: chicken tenders, pepperoni pizza, any Reese's candy, Mountain Dew, strawberry or grape flavored water Favorite Games: I'm not really into video games, but I really like Xenosaga and The Sims 2 (PC) Favorite Bands: Linkin Park, Evanescence, Daughtry, 3 Doors Down Favorite Anime: Haibane Renmei, all Hayao Miyazaki movies (especially Princess Mononoke), RahXephon, Fruits Basket, Fullmetal Alchemist, Azumanga Daioh, Paradise Kiss, Kaleido Star Favorite Movies: Titanic, Memoirs of a Geisha, Labyrinth, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, School of Rock, Spider-Man 1 and 2, Shrek 1 and 2 Favorite Manga: Fruits Basket, Fullmetal Alchemist, Monster, Alice 19th, Full Moon O Sagashite, Death Note Favorite Manga Authors: I guess there aren't really specific authors I consider favorites, but I'd like to read more manga written by any of the authors that have written my favorite manga. Favorite Type of Manga: Whatever is good. I think I'm starting to like shoujo more than I like admitting though. Favorite Books/Comics: Honestly, I don't read much of anything that isn't manga. Favorite Non-Manga Authors: ... Favorite Bookstore/Website To Buy From: I like to go to Waldenbooks when I can so I can flip through manga before I buy it. Other than that, I usually buy from TRSI or Overstock. Favorite Place to Read: On my bed When Did You Start Reading Manga/Books: I starting reading manga a few years ago. I don't remember exactly when. And I have no clue when I started reading books in general. Worst Manga/Book You've Read: Any history book. History books bore me to tears. 
Other Hobbies: playing with my cats, shopping, watching music videos, playing The Sims 2, sleeping Pet Peeves: people who don't respect other people becuase of religion/race/looks/etc, my allergies, politics, probably tons of other stuff I just can't think of... |
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jgreen
 Posts: 1325 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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Bring it! Koopa Troopa'll leave tire tracks all over that mushroom hat of yours, Toadie! 
You don't mean Heartbroken Angles, do you? |
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Ensof
 Posts: 70 Location: Meifumadō |
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First post after a long lurk, and this seems the best place to start ...
Name: Karl Age: Mid-30s Pets: None Ethnicity: Irish/Australian. Marital Status: I am a rock, I am an island (or so I tell myself). Religion: Atheist of a spiritual bent. Drink or Smoke: I have a wee drinky from time to time. Never smoked. Favourite Food: Can’t beat a good curry or kebab. Favourite Drinks: Beer. Favourite Games: Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Tenchu Stealth Assassins, Soul Reaver, Vagrant Story. Favourite Bands: Too many to mention, but mostly shoegazer bands, plus an assortment of slocore and indie pop. Favourite Anime: I’ve only really watched films (Akira, Urotsukidoji etc) and adaptations of the manga I like, so I’ll pass on this one. Favourite Movies: Seven Samurai, Blues Brothers, Amateur, City of Lost Children, The Castle, Eraserhead, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Angel Heart, Donnie Darko, Army of Darkness, The Thing and Peter Jackson’s early films (especially Bad Taste). Favourite Manga: Berserk, Blade of the Immortal, Blame!, Buddha, Domu, Genshiken, Lone Wolf and Cub, Monster, Nausicaa, Shadow Star, Uzumaki, Welcome to the NHK, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou. Favourite Manga Authors: I tend to look at titles rather than authors, but if you’d twist my arm I’d nominate Junji Ito, Kazuo Koike and Katsuhiro Otomo. Favourite Type of Manga: Thrillers, horror, historical, anything that makes me think. Favourite Non-Manga Authors: Donald E Westlake/Richard Stark, Peter Corris, Shane Maloney, George McDonald Fraser, Michael Moorcock, Philip K Dick, George RR Martin, Harry Harrison, Robert Sheckley, HP Lovecraft, Alan Moore, Garth Ennis. Favourite Books/Comics: Apart from those by the authors above (which would make a very long list), I’d go with The Dispossessed (Ursula le Guin), Pig World (Charles W Runyon), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes), The Best of Walter M Miller Jr (Walter M Miller Jr), Empyrio (Jack Vance) and a favourite from my teen years: The Last Legionary Quartet (Douglas Hill). Favourite Bookstore/Website to Buy From: Wherever I can get it cheapest. Favourite Place to Read: Any comfy chair will do. When Did You Start Reading Manga/Books: 1994, but only sporadically until the last few years. Worst Manga/Book You've Read: D. Gray-Man. Pet Peeves: Capitalism. Other Hobbies: Reading, writing, walking, meditating, watching football (“soccer”), cooking (badly, but God bless me I try), tabletop RPGs (mainly Ars Magica these days). |
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HitokiriShadow
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No, she probably means Broken Angels, just like she said. Last edited by HitokiriShadow on Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:55 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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jgreen
Posts: 1325 Location: St. Louis, MO |
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You mean "she" said, right? Never heard of that series before now, but I've got to say the premise sounds fairly interesting. It at least takes the generic Hana Kimi-esque cross-dressing high school student story in a bizarre new direction. Sorry to hear it's apparently not very good, though. 
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HitokiriShadow
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I don't know what you are talking about.
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DarkWarLord
 Posts: 141 Location: Tucson, Arizona |
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He means the person you guys are talking about (Not a Jellyfish) is a girl. 
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BrothersElric
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Here's my profile on the anime meed ANN thread, if you want to check it out.
Oh boy, I guess I'm in trouble then. 
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