I'm 20 years old, living in northern Florida, and I'm currently between schools. I'll spare you the details of the previous, but in the school I'm switching to, I plan to major in English education. I'm studying Japanese independently, which I will be working on a lot more this summer (I plan to go through an entire level one textbook). My current career goal is to go to Japan and teach English in high school.

Anyway, my uber anime addiction started last winter, at about the time I decided I'd give the Japanese language a try, just to break away from the monotonous patterns of the Western languages (I've studied Latin, French, and Italian, and have had varying levels of experience with Spanish and German, so yea I just wanted to try something different). So I have a really short list as of now, but I'm always looking to expand it, so any recommendations are welcome. It's really the plot that does it for me, or really just interesting or unusual premises or concepts, rather than genre, though I tend to find myself watching heavy amounts of school drama, romance, sf, and mecha. I like a good philosophical or multilayered bit. I'm always open to genres I haven't tried before, as long as the anime's good.

Random stuff:
I like to eat with chopsticks. Miso soup is the shiz. Pizza is too. Italy and Japan=best food there is. Oh, and I have a tattoo that says Moe in kanji...

	mickal555 | 01-01-08, 8:13 PM Happy Birthday!! Reply - Anime - Manga

	Lacrimosa | 12-05-07, 2:01 PM Your anime compatibility with redphoenix is: High 0.89 Reply - Anime - Manga

	civg | 10-18-07, 12:35 PM hi!!!! i like evangelion too Reply - Anime - Manga

	jade-the-raptor | 07-03-07, 4:54 AM wow your doing Japanese language !! wana teach me?? lol i wanna get into anime in japan but i cant really do that without knowing the language xD xj Reply - Anime - Manga

	Enn | 05-07-07, 1:11 AM Hmmm, those video's do make me think a bit better about this movie. I'm still betting on a failure, but at least with that Taylor guy, there's a chance on something good. Indeed, we'll just have to wait for a few years. Asuka's art in the bottom video scared me a bit though. "Ray" doesn't really look sane either... Reply - Anime - Manga

Enn | 05-06-07, 3:28 AM Ah, I forgot we'll have to wait for a DVD release. Ah well, as long as it gets there eventually, I can hold out. I'm not one for a hidden cam sub either. And yeah, I heard about the movie plans earlier. I'm not that happy with them to be honest. It might turn our freakish anime nerdity into mainstream anime nerdity, but I have very little confidence a movie will do NGE much good. Without Hideaki Anno on board, I'm afraid it'll turn out to be some action oriented mecha movie, void of all the subtlety and depth that made NGE so good. I can just picture the "making of" with the actors talking about how much they loved working with each other and how they saw 2 episodes of the original anime and were "very impressed". Then we switch to another part of the trailer where some hollywood dope playing Shinji is shouting he'll "KICK SOME ANGEL ASS!", while the EVA's (sabotaged by some shady looking Iranian guy) launch into a cloudy sky, guided off by the "supposedly totally spontanous but suspiciously well worded" speech of inspiration about peace and duty by a teary eyed Gendo... Eh, well, it probably won't be thát bad, but I do highly doubt a movie would come even close to the anime; they're going to go after the common demominator. But maybe I'm just a skeptical sob. Reply - Anime - Manga

	DarkLaila | 05-05-07, 7:20 AM looks cool! but...does it hurt much? o_O Reply - Anime - Manga

Enn | 05-05-07, 6:05 AM Whaaaaat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebuild_of_Evangelion (I only just read about this on the wiki page you linked to.) I'm téh skeptical at the moment, but also delighted in a way. Sorry for spamming your comment box. I'd tell someone else, it's just that I don't know anyone who might give a f about this. Or animated brilliance in general, for that matter. Reply - Anime - Manga

Enn | 05-05-07, 5:46 AM It just occurred to me I don't think I've ever even seen the preview episodes. I always loaded in the next episode at highly trained lightning speed to see more. Thanks for the link, there's lot of interesting info on there. It makes me want to see NGE again, just to freshen up on it. And... I will. And yes, I noticed our incredibly compatibility too... It's probably only due to my funky way of scoring though: I only give 10's and 9's to indicate favorites. I'm a bug in the system! Reply - Anime - Manga

Enn | 05-05-07, 3:14 AM I just read your Neon Genesis review and it said: "so they cut both the budget and scheduling for the Eva project, so later in the series, the animators didn't have time to make as many frames as they would have liked, and eventually they ran out of time to complete all the frames they needed, so in the last 2 next episode previews and even the last episode, they had to use macro shots of storyboards and the like. You'll be so wrapped up in the show at this point that you'll probably think it was intentional." I gotta say, I consider myself a big NGE fan - it's my absolute favorite - but I never knew this. I knew things didn't go all that smooth with NGE, just not that it was that bad? I really though it was all intentional, even more so because I figured the abstract style of the final episode was meant as a functional metaphor for the grander scale the story unfolded on. Too bad it was just the lack of dough... Where'd you read all this, if you don't mind my asking? Reply - Anime - Manga

	DarkLaila | 05-04-07, 1:07 PM sad that japanese script doesen't work on the profile...would have liked to see it^^ u could make a photo of corse :] Reply - Anime - Manga

	DarkLaila | 05-01-07, 11:54 PM i just have to ask^^ what sign is the tattoo? Reply - Anime - Manga

	DarkLaila | 04-28-07, 1:49 PM hey! thx...made it myself in Japan^^ you speak a bit of German, i just read...but don't fear...won't torture ;)...how do you learn kanji? Reply - Anime - Manga

	Yusuke | 04-27-07, 11:57 PM Howdy redphoenix!! I love bunny girls and rock 'n roll!! Reply - Anime - Manga