Hi. I'm 21 and your typical closet nerd. Almost none of my friends like anime so that's why I'm here! I'd like to think I'm a very open minded person. One thing I try my best to do is not judge people / things by first impressions. I mean, I do, but I'm pretty good at catching myself when I don't really know anything about whatever it is. I'm naturally a pretty introverted person, but depending on who I'm around I can be pretty high strung as well. If I had to describe myself in terms of fictional characters I would be a mixture of Simon + Oreki Houtaro + Okabe Rintarou + Squall Leonheart. I won't say which characteristics I have from which, you'll just have to figure that one out :)
Real Life Stuffs-
As of right now I'm finishing up my 4th and final year of college! Chemistry major with med school aspirations. As far as physical interests, I like to play basketball and I recently started playing tennis. I ski in the winter and am in the process of picking up snowboarding but I suck lol. I try to go to the gym 1-3 times a week. I don't really enjoy that, but I go to stay in shape.
[center]Nerdy stuff-
So I play a lot of JRPGs when I can (list below). I'm really big into Final Fantasy (profile pic pls). I also randomly got addicted to downloading anime / video game wallpapers. I have like 1000+ images that I shuffle as my background. Maybe one day I'll upload it to imgur and post it on here. I spend a lot of time playing League of Legends (gold I atm). I stream once every 3.5 years, so here's my twitch: twitch.tv/rithak. I used to play WoW, but now not so much. I used to be pretty hardcore back in the day though haha.
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[center]Music -
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=FLUGOGnvnH0zSNFbeDpGwuNQ
I like a lot of different types of music: Rap / JPOP / KPOP / other catchy stuff. That's hella vague I know. I posted my youtube above. I don't post anything, but I like / favorite a lot the music I've been listening to. I'm pretty random between all those categories so it might seem weird if you don't like all of em. Feel free to stalk tho =). *I really like trading music with people who have similar tastes. If you think we do, let's be friends!
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Random things -
Cuteness Overload
Video games list -
Final Fantasy X - 10/10
Final Fantasy VII - 10/10
Final Fantasy VIII - 10/10
Final Fantasy IX - 10/10
Final Fantasy Tactics: War of Lions - 10/10
Final Fantasy XIII-2 - 9.5/10
Final Fantasy XII - 9.25/10
Final Fantasy XIII-3 - 8/10. (Feb 15-25, 2014)
Final Fantasy XIII - 7.5/10
Kingdom Hearts - 9.5/10
Kingdom Hearts 2 - 9.5/10
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories - 8.5/10
Chrono Cross - 9.5/10
Chrono Trigger - On Hold
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. Currently playing - Jan 2014
Legend of Dragoon - 8.0/10
Dark Cloud - 8.25/10
Dark Cloud 2 - On Hold
Tales of Symphonia - 8.25/10
Tales of Xillia - 7/10
Paper Mario - 8/10
Golden Sun - 8.25/10
[center]Quotes and stuff -
What was the start of all this?
When did the cogs of fate begin to turn?
Perhaps it is impossible to grasp that answer now,
from deep within the flow of time.
But, for a certainty back then,
We loved so many, yet hated so much.
We hurt others, and were hurt ourselves.
And still we ran like the wind, whilst our laughter echoed
under cerulean skies.
- Chrono Cross
“Someday you’re bound to lose everything. Everybody around you will be gone. Then what are you left with? Nothing. Nobody… It’s so miserable. And inevitable. It’s so hard to recover from something like that. I never want to deal with that again. I can’t. Even if it means being alone.” - Squall Leonhart (FFVIII)
"Just, one more thing: the people and the friends that we have lost, or the dreams that have faded...Never forget them" - Yuna (FFX)
"Let's go to the sea, before sunrise. The city lights go out, one by one, the stars fade, then the horizon glows, almost like it’s on fire. It's kinda rose-colored, right? First the sea, then it spreads to the sky, then to the whole city. It gets brighter and brighter till everything…glows. It’s really pretty. I know you'd like it." - Tidus (FFX)
"Legendary guardian? I was just a boy. A boy about your age, actually. I wanted to change the world, too. But I changed nothing. That is my story." - Auron (FFX)
----Can I just quote the entire script of FFX? Because it's fucking perfect.---
Hey there old buddy! I just wanted to drop by and wish you a Happy New Year! Hope you are doing well! I haven't been on much, but I treasure the time we have chatted in the past! Hopefully we will keep in touch very soon!
Colorful Shining Stars Club
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Colorful Shining Stars Club will be shut down at the end of September.
It was a nice start on reviving this club and it's sad to say that I'll have to retire
for now. Perhaps until next summer or when the creator is back,
this club could be up and running again, along with our collab partner, Hartwell: MAL School of Enchantment.
I want to thank each and every one of you for joining this club, it really means a lot to us.
It's been nice working with everyone and I hope yall have a great day. Sayonara, until next time.
- CSSC Staff
Hartwell: MAL School of Enchantment
◆◇◆◇ S E P T E M B E R N E W S L E T T E R ◆◇◆◇ IMPORTANT NOTICE
Hartwell: School of Enchantment will be shut down at the end of September.
It was a nice start on reviving this club and it's sad to say that I'll have to retire
for now. Perhaps until next summer or when the creator is back,
this club could be up and running again, along with our collab partner, Colorful Shining Stars Club.
I want to thank each and every one of you for joining this club, it really means a lot to us.
The next time you see HMSE, we will be starting from scratch and hope that everyone will support us and give us strength.
It's been nice working with everyone and I hope yall have a great day. Sayonara, until next time.
- HMSE Staff
Greetings, and welcome to the 2015 Spring Edition of the Namine's Café Newsletter
First, I would like to thank everyone who has joined the cafe, as well as those who actively support us. After being open for less than 18 months, we are closing in on 5000 members and 100 affiliations. And Namine's cafe just recently passed the incredible milestone of 8000 pages of chat comments (that's 160,000 comments), the first club in MAL to ever achieve this goal.
Now to the important stuff ^_^
We have an amazing amount of things happening at the cafe: First, we have three major competitions coming, including an Anime Couples Competition, a Voice Actor Competition, as well as the 2nd Annual Namine's Cafe Best Girl Competition. We'll also be having several other small competitions along the way, including an Anime Scavenger Hunt, a Best Scene Competition, a card making competition, plus many more. In addition to our competitions, there some big news at the cafe. First of all, Skype is back!!! While we still have a dedicated IRC chat, we've brought back Skype, and it's as popular as it ever was in the cafe. Also, member card editions are returning to the cafe shortly, with some of the best card makers in MAL signed up to help make wonderful cards, so stop by early and often to see what cards are available.
The details for each of our event are listed in the below spoilers:
Namine's Café Anime Couple's Competition
Following the success of our previous competitions we held last year, we've decided to follow that up with another competition. Last month, we held a vote on what type of character competition we should hold, and Couple's Competition won.
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate a couple for the competition. You can nominate up to 3 anime/manga couples. They must be a real couple in the anime (no wishful thinking here :-)), having at least dated or kissed in the anime as a minimum. You rank your nominees from 1 to 3. The ranking determines how many points each character gets, like so:
#1 choice is worth 5 points
#2 choice is worth 3 points
#3 choice is worth 1 points
The points each character gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 32 couples will compete in a double elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one, er... two on two, competitions xD.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting on Sunday, 2/15/2015, and will close on Saturday, 2/28/2015. The first voting competition will start on Tuesday, 3/3/2015. A new competition will start every day, and each vote is open for 2 days. If a couple wins, they move on to the next round. If a couple loses, they move to the single loss bracket, where they will face off against the other match losers. If a couple wins their match in the second bracket, they will move on for another match in the second bracket. If they lose a match in the second bracket, they are out. This means that even if your favorite couple loses, they still have a chance.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 3 anime/manga couples. It can be less than 3, but it cannot be more. Any couple over the first 3 will be removed.
The couple must be a couple in the anime/manga. If they are not, but are a couple, or have kissed or dated in a LN or VN, then they will be accepted (proof must be provided in this case). Straight, yuri, and yaoi couples are acceptable. For threesomes and love triangles, make a choice on which pairing to nominate (or nominate both separately :-)).
List the full name of both characters in the couple to be nominated, as well as an anime that they are in. Hot-linking the characters to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Only one nomination list per member, please.
Namine's Café Second Annual Best Girl Competition
Our first competition last year, the Moe Competition, was an incredible success. This is the second annual competition, but instead of just moe girls, all girls will be allowed to be nominated.
Here's how it works:
Similar to last year's Moe Competition and the Couples Competition, this competition also takes place in two phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate supporting characters for the competition. Since we're allowing all girls, we're also increasing the field of play. You can nominate up to 7 anime characters, listed in the MAL database. They can be your favorites, or just characters that you believe are the most cool. You rank your nominees from 1 to 7. The ranking determines how many points each girl gets, with special bonus points for #1 & #2 pics, like so:
#1 choice is worth 10 points
#2 choice is worth 7 points
#3 choice is worth 5 points
#4 choice is worth 4 points
#5 choice is worth 3 points
#6 choice is worth 2 points
#7 choice is worth 1 point
The points each character gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 64 girls will compete in a single elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting sometime in March (exact date TBD). The first voting competition will start shortly after the nominations have been closed. A new competition will start every day, and each vote is open for 2 days. Because the field will be double the size of the other competitions, the best girl competition will be single elimination and not double elimination.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 7 anime girls.
The nominee must be listed in MAL, and must be in at least one an anime - sorry, but no pure manga girls allowed. Furthermore, nominees must be female - no traps allowed.
List the full name of each character to be nominated, as well as an anime that she is in. Hot-linking the character to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Only one nomination list per member, please.
No double nominating. Meaning that the same character is nominated as your 1st and 3rd choice. If this happens, the 2nd listing will be removed.
Namine's Café Voice Actor Competition
Another competition we'll be having is the Voice Actor Competition
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in three phases. The first phase is where everyone gets to nominate Voice Actors the competitions. You can nominate up to 5 Japanese Voice Actors, and up to 5 non-Japanese Voice Actors. Following the nominations, there will be two separate competitions: one for Japanese VAs and one for non-Japanese VAs. The VAs must be listed in MAL. You rank your nominees from 1 to 5. The ranking determines how many points each character gets, like so:
#1 choice is worth 5 points
#2 choice is worth 4 points
#3 choice is worth 3 points
#4 choice is worth 2 points
#5 choice is worth 1 point
The points each VA gets from each members nomination are cumulative, and when the nominations are over, the points will be counted, and the top 32 Japanese VAs and the top 32 non-Japanese VAs will compete in separate single elimination bracket style competition where then members vote on them in one on one competitions.
The nomination phase will last 15 days, starting sometime in April / May (exact date TBD). The first voting competition will start shortly after the nominations have been closed. A new competition will start every other day, with the Japanese and non-Japanese matches alternating, with each vote open for 2 days. Because there will be two separate competitions, the field will be double the size of the other competitions, similar to the best girl competition, so the VA competitions will be single elimination and not double elimination.
Here are the rules:
As stated above, you can nominate up to 10 Voice Actors - 5 Japanese and 5 English a/o non-Japanese.
The VAs must be listed in MAL.
List the full name of the VA, as well as at least one to two characters they've portrayed (so that others know who they are). Hot-linking the VAs to their MAL page is welcome, but not required.
Some of the other things that are happening at the cafe are listed blow:
Namine's Café Anime Scavenger Hunt
Sometime witin the next couple of months, we'll hold an Anime Scavenger Hunt. There will be prizes for the winners.
Here's how it works:
The scavenger hunt will actually be a series of hunts, differing in levels of difficulty. Every couple days, a list will be pulished at the cafe for a new hunt. The list will contain objects, characters, quotes, info on Cafe members and staff, etc. The job of the hunters is to find what anime the items on the list come from.
Here are the rules:
Each list will contain a set of items that need to be identified from specifica anime. The list will also include a MAL user account
If an item on the list can be found in multiple anime, listing o ne of the anime is acceptable
Teaming up is allowed
When all the items have been identified, a PM needs to be sent to the user account identified on the list. The first PM, based on datestamp, that correctly identifies everything on the list is the winner.
Namine's Café Best Scene Competition
Another competition the cafe will be having is the best scene competition.
Here's how it works:
The competition takes place in two phases. First, anyone can nominate up to two scenes that they like in anime - either it's really funny, sad, kawaii, uber-erotic, etc. To enter a nomination, members will need to make a snippet of an anime containing that scene and turn it into a video. Scenes can be up to 5 minutes long. The first 50 scenes will be accepted. If turnout is high, that can be increased. Once all the nominations are in, the compettions will begin. Each week, 5 scenes will be selected at random and added to a poll therad. The top vote counter will win that week. The #2 vote counter will also stay alive. Follign the 10 weeks of voting, the 10 2nd placers will compete in 2 weekly votes, with the 2 winners added to the 10 1st placers. The 12 remaining scenes will vote in 4 separate votes of 3 random scenes each, with the winner going to the final. The championship will be a week long vote of the final 3 scenes. The one who submitted the winning scene will win a major prize.
Namine's Café card making competition
Namine's cafe will hold a card making competiton, where anyone who wants to try to make a card can join. Once the competition starts, there will be a 2 - 3 week period where everyone can make and submit a single member card. The cards (exact number TBD), will then be pitted against each other in head to head competitions. Don't think you can make a card - don't worry so much. Try your cand at making a card and who knows, if coul dbe amazing.
Namine's Café Skype Group
The cafe once again has Skype. please Click Here for more information on the Skype Group, and to get an invitation to it.
Namine's Café Official Steam Group Activities
As many of you are aware, the Cafe has it's own Steam Group. Please click here for more information on the Steam Group, and to get an invitation to it. We are currently planning some possible Steam game tournaments in the future, and feedback on this would be awesome. Also, we may be getting our Minecraft server back, as well.
BIG NEWS! (Senting this to all 167 Members.)
Since our creator, naruse_,
has been inactive for more than 2 months already;
I decide to do a little re-vamp of the club and run it myself
with the help of my loyal friend VanityStar.
I know most of you would probably wonder when will naruse_ be back..
To tell you the truth, she didn't leave any message regarding why she would
be inactive for that long. Once she's back, I'll definitely leave the club in her care.
But at the moment, I'll be taking care of it :x
I'm not really good with managing clubs since I've never done it..
so I ask for you to please bare with me!
I'll do my best and I hope yall enjoy staying in our club.
We're almost starting completely fresh!
Keeping some of the old threads for memories but moving on with new ones.
So try to help us make this club alive again!
Spread the words; Invite your friends :)
Official Member Cards & Badges are on the making.
Please be patient with us.
Last and foremost, we're currently recruiting more people
for the available jobs listed in Staff Recruitment.
Join the staff and make this club grow~!
Greetings fellow members! Just wanted to inform that our club will have its first annual tournament this first week of October. If you haven't joined a team yet, you can register here.
if you want to create your own team, you can register it at the library and we will start even if the slots aren't filled :) but take note that teamwork and more members will have more advantage in winning :3 the winning team shall have a prize for each of its members.
And to those interested in becoming a layout, card and badge maker, you can sign here. Staff Recruitment is always open for these positions. We are in need of card and badge makers, and as of now, the club has only 1 layout designer so if you are interested please help us T^T
There's also new updates and open threads, you can check it here. Thank you very much! have a fun and awesome day >w<
>The first club name "Emily's Card Factory" has been
decided to be changed into HARTWELL: MAL
School of Enchantment (H.M.S.E).
What's in the club?
we would like to tell you that no feature of the previous
club has been eliminated and the only thing that has
changed is that we will add more features in the future and
we will make the activities in the club school-based.
> any members can register and join and register a school club at the Library. H.M.S.E will have it's first
annual club tournament at the end of September so we
suggest you pick or register a club now in order to gain
better chances from winning a club badge.
❤ G E N E R A L || N O T I C E ❤
Thank you everyone for participating and joining ECF: Emily’s Card Factory.
Expect greater things to come in the future.
From Emily (Club Creator): “guys i am thinking of changing the club's name so that it doesn't much focus about
producing cards. though we wouldn't eliminate the card feature. but i think i want to
change the club's theme to be more like a school, academy or university where the
official card would serve as the member's id and the admins would be like professors
or something XD but it doesn't have much to deal about school subjects since this is
MAL and we want to make the school fun so we will be playing games and talking
about animes. what do you think guys? admins and members? i need your opinions X3
the name would somehow be like MAL University or MAL Academy. but you can suggest
one if you would like the club to change into this ”
nice to meet you too :D
same here ^^ It's so hard to rank them because they are so different and I liked every game but I would agree with your rating ^^
sry for the bother but I've seen your post in intoduction thread at ECF and as I can see from your profile you're a huge fan of games just like me and especially FF :D
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Colorful Shining Stars Club
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
Hartwell: MAL School of Enchantment
◆◇◆◇ S E P T E M B E R N E W S L E T T E R ◆◇◆◇
IMPORTANT NOTICE
BIG NEWS!
(Senting this to all 167 Members.)
Since our creator, naruse_,
has been inactive for more than 2 months already;
I decide to do a little re-vamp of the club and run it myself
with the help of my loyal friend VanityStar.
I know most of you would probably wonder when will naruse_ be back..
To tell you the truth, she didn't leave any message regarding why she would
be inactive for that long. Once she's back, I'll definitely leave the club in her care.
But at the moment, I'll be taking care of it :x
I'm not really good with managing clubs since I've never done it..
so I ask for you to please bare with me!
I'll do my best and I hope yall enjoy staying in our club.
We're almost starting completely fresh!
Keeping some of the old threads for memories but moving on with new ones.
So try to help us make this club alive again!
Spread the words; Invite your friends :)
Official Member Cards & Badges are on the making.
Please be patient with us.
Last and foremost, we're currently recruiting more people
for the available jobs listed in Staff Recruitment.
Join the staff and make this club grow~!
G E N E R A L ✡ N O T I C E
Greetings fellow members! Just wanted to inform that our club will have its first annual tournament this first week of October. If you haven't joined a team yet, you can register here.
if you want to create your own team, you can register it at the library and we will start even if the slots aren't filled :) but take note that teamwork and more members will have more advantage in winning :3 the winning team shall have a prize for each of its members.
And to those interested in becoming a layout, card and badge maker, you can sign here. Staff Recruitment is always open for these positions. We are in need of card and badge makers, and as of now, the club has only 1 layout designer so if you are interested please help us T^T
There's also new updates and open threads, you can check it here. Thank you very much! have a fun and awesome day >w<
N E W S L E T T E R ✡ D E L I V E R Y
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A N N O U N C E M E N T:
>The first club name "Emily's Card Factory" has been
decided to be changed into HARTWELL: MAL
School of Enchantment (H.M.S.E).
What's in the club?
we would like to tell you that no feature of the previous
club has been eliminated and the only thing that has
changed is that we will add more features in the future and
we will make the activities in the club school-based.
> Locations: School Entrance, School Yard, Faculty Room,
Headmaster's Office, Library and Classroom has been added.
S C H O O L - L O C A T I O N S
School Entrance: New Members Introduction Thread
School Yard: Members' General Chat Thread
Faculty Room: Staff's General Chat Thread
Headmaster’s Office: Questions & Suggestions
Library: For Club Registration
Classroom: Attendance Check! (earn points)
> any members can register and join and
register a school club at the
Library. H.M.S.E will have it's first
annual club tournament at the end of September so we
suggest you pick or register a club now in order to gain
better chances from winning a club badge.
>Logo making contest for H.M.S.E will open soon
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Thank you everyone for participating and joining ECF: Emily’s Card Factory.
Expect greater things to come in the future.
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same here ^^ It's so hard to rank them because they are so different and I liked every game but I would agree with your rating ^^