Wednesday, August 23, 2006

   New Look and New Feel

Word of the Day

Shōjo or shoujo is a term used in English to refer to manga and anime aimed at a young, female audience. The term is a transcription of the Japanese 少女, literally girl. The closest American equivalent would be the chick flick genre. Shoujo does however cover a wide range of topics including historical or science fiction genres along with normal everyday life situations. Some examples of Shoujo works include Love Hina, Oh My Goddess, and Sailor Moon. However contrary to the naming both male and female readers can happily become involved and addicted to stories that fall within this genre.

Opening Act:
Hello everyone! Well as you can see things have changed a bit around the site this week. Along with a new theme I’ve also added a few new features on the site. The first I’m sure you’ve already noticed as a Word of the Day section. It’s occurred to me lately that we use a lot of different phrases and words in the anime world that aren’t necessarily easy to understand for a new or pleasure viewer. I know personally it took me a long time to figure out all the differences between the genres and the small pieces within them. So I decided to put together a short description as you see, to help out new folks. Now I’m not saying they’re all perfect but with luck they’ll at least give you a good gist of what the word is referring too.

And for the second feature; this is one I brought up in a random question last week. ^^ One that actually confused a few of you, sorry about that! I realized it’s a tough question to answer and I appreciate those of you who tried. Perhaps after seeing what I’ve created here you can better decide if it’s a section you’d like to read about or not. If not…hmm just skip that part I guess. LoL But I hope you’ll find it interesting, if not well then just put it down to my love for researching new goodies! So once you finish my posts you’ll find a little snippet about a voice actor. I’m going to choose some of my faves for the beginning ones, but if there are any in particular you’re interested in let me know. Oh and I will be playing around with both English and Japanese voice actors, since I honestly enjoy listening to both. ^^

And I’ve tried to bring a bit of organization to the site as well. Opening Act as you see here will be my random thoughts and anything new that has happened during the time since my last posting.

New Works:
As the name describes this section will be where I announce my latest wallpapers or e-cards. And today you just get a new theme from Full Metal Panic starring my fave war- nut Sousuke, so no new wallpapers. Don’t worry I’ll have more for you later this week.

Epilogue
A place to discuss some of the issues and questions that came up in my last posts Comments section. So if you don’t understand what’s happening here don’t worry too much I try to ID who I’m talking directly too. But just because I’m answering them doesn’t mean you can’t step in and visit too. I welcome discussions, comments, questions and hey just random thoughts I can chatter on about. LoL This will also be the place where I answer my random question from the last posting as well.

In this case last time my question was about being attracted to an anime by another Otaku’s site or avie or whatever. This actually happens to me a lot! In fact that AMV I showed last time actually turned me on to several different animes. Including GetBackers. LoL I just had to know who the guy wearing those sexy purple sunglasses was! Otherwise I still blame Elves for turning me onto Ouran Host Club and Bunraku for making me watch Full Metal Panic! Yay for friends helping add to my addiction!

Random Question:
Simple one this time; let me know what you think of the new theme and sections. ^^ Feedback can only help me improve so please comment away!

Crispin Freeman's Biography
Birth Name: Crispin McDougal Freeman Born: February 9, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois Age: 34 Occupation: Voice Actor/Director/Writer Other Names: Mark Percy Religious Belief(s): Buddhist Blood Type: O - Favorite Anime Character: Allen Schezar Favorite Character You Played: Tsume, Wolf's Rain Favorite Anime Series: Macross Plus, The Vision of Escaflowne, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke (and most all Studio Ghibli films) Favorite Foods: Chicago Style Pizza (Giordano's!), Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, Sushi Background: B.A. from Williams College. Majored in Theater, minored in Computer Science. M.F.A. from Columbia University in Acting. Performed on Broadway, American Repertory Theater (Cambridge), Mark Taper Forum (LA), Williamstown Theater Festival
I had to display Crispin Freeman as my first voice actor, he was after all the very first voice actor I looked up on the internet after hearing him. Crispin is probably one of the best known voice actors at least among the animes I watch. I’ve had the lovely pleasure of meeting Crispin a few years ago at a Convention…Chicago I think. LoL It’s been a long time, sorry! And the fact he’s still one of my fave actors is a good sign that even in person he was a sweet and kind person to a bunch of total strangers begging for attention! If you’d like to know more about Crispin I highly recommend visiting his website. You can find it by clicking on the photo of him to the left. Just a short listing of his voice acting career, if I listed them all I'd be here all night! So I'm just listing all of my faves! Hellsing - Alucard The Big O - Alan Gabriel (2nd season) s-CRY-ed - Straight Cougar Last Exile - Alex Rowe Witch Hunter Robin - Amon Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Togusa Wolf's Rain - Tsume Scrapped Princess - Shannon Cassul Eureka 7 - Holland Blood+ - Hagi, Van Argeno - Coming soon! Yay!

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