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During my parochial school days, I've always been addressed as Taylor Tertius (especially in the company of my older siblings) and since then I have often used that moniker as my online identity. It's not a very imaginative name, but it succinctly, at least superficially, describes me. I am, the third male child of my family and since I have five other siblings, I have also the dubious pleasure along with my womb-mate (Taylor Quartus) of suffering from "middle child syndrome".

I have been watching anime, before I even knew what it was. I grew up watching my father's video cassettes of classic anime and my older siblings' collection of eighties anime. I, myself, am ashamed to admit that I was caught in the Poke/Digi/whatever-mon craze that hit North America in the nineties. I remember spending an obscene amount of money satisfying that crave. It wasn't until mid-season of Digimon Tamers that I lost interest in animation in general.

It wasn't until high school that I discovered that most of my favourite cartoons from my childhood were anime all along. There was an anime club that I was invited to join, but at that time I didn't appreciate the complexity that anime had to offer and dismissed it as a childish fancy that I've outgrown. It was, in retrospect, a shame that I didn't join and too narrow-minded to know the difference, because they were such a good group of blokes. I think I might have enjoyed my high school life more too, instead of the four-year period of tedium interrupted sporadically with light moments of Hell that it was.

It wasn't until recently (April 2007) that I rediscovered the wonder that is anime. I was finally finished my finals and was wondering what I would do for the rest of the summer when I interrupted my flatmate watching Hikaru no Go on his laptop. Intrigued, I watched a couple of episodes and was instantly hooked. It is, how they say, trickled from that point.

In the days that followed, I found myself borrowing my flatmate's copy of Hikaru no Go and watched it nearly non-stop (with me ending up burning a copy for myself). Within weeks, I found myself purchasing the manga and from there I made the small leap to Death Note because of the tiniest of connections (Takeshi Obata) and it was from that point where my anime/manga love affair exploded. Months later, I found myself watching and duplicating nearly the entirety of my flatmate's collection and started to watch/download anime independently. Hence the obscenely long list of anime I've watched since the summer.

Finding this site is a real blessing and it is in my hopes that I would make many friends who share similar interests and a certain degree of fanaticism when it comes to anime. :P


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