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ANIME

I like anime (obviously). I have been watching anime for 31 years. Longer, if you count stuff I watched as a kid before I knew it was actually anime. I have been going to anime cons for 25 years (the cons I have been to include: Anime Expo, Project A-kon, Fanime, Yaoicon, Anime Central, Otakon, AnimeFEST, Ushicon, Comiket) I have been collecting manga (in Japanese) for 23 years. I love shoujo/romance anime, Ghibli films, and World Masterpiece Theater anime, but I also enjoy most shounen subgenres- mecha, sci-fi, tournament-fighting, adventure, slice-of-life, etc. I am not too keen on harem series based on ero video games, but I have even occasionally enjoyed a couple of those. I keep up with new series, but also love 90's series and I love old series from the 70's and 80's.

MANGA

Most of my manga is legitimate purchases of the actual volumes instead of scanlations. I pretty much only buy import manga in Japanese from places like Kinokuniya, BK1 and Book-Off. I have been to Japan a few times, and bought some there too. (stupid airline luggage weight restrictions though...) So far, my collection is over 7000 volumes and counting, but my list for it always seems to be a few hundred out of date. I really want to add it all to the database here (most of it is not listed here...) and I am trying to do it, but I have, like, 2000 more titles to add that aren't in the database, so it is gonna take a while.


I have been trying to use other online list options, and have had reasonably good luck keeping track of my manga with BookLog JP.
LIVE ACTION

I love dramas! I have been watching Asian dramas for 23 years now. I keep track of those on MyDramaList

FAN STUFF

I also love making anime or drama fan pages, such as the ones below. Whenever an anime, manga, or drama series really makes an impression on me, I feel inspired to spread the love, so I make a fan site for it. I prefer to make sites for series that don't already have a bunch of sites devoted to them. As you can see, all of the design styles of my sites are rather old =_= I really need to update the layouts. But still, considering I have kept these sites up and have managed to more or less maintain them for more than 25 years, I feel a tiny bit proud :) Some of these sites (in particular the magical girls page) are currently being revamped. I am almost done redesigning and updating it. Do people not make anime fansites anymore? I remember everyone was making them like, 10 years ago. I think wikipedia killed off the anime fansite :(
Here are a few: