Hikaru

Average person who just so happen to get hooked on anime during the time Spriggan, Ronin Warriors and Neon Genesis Evangelion was not that well known in the US. Hell, Voltron was on and no one knew, how sad.

The time i have spend (downloading) gathering this insane number eps and series is a collection started since the start of DSL/Cable internet, and prior (the dreaded Dial-up, i think it was when 28.8k was common and the transition in some areas to 56 K.). Yes i may seem old, since i am 27. Started when i was around 10. Started slow at first ^_^. I guess that makes me more then average in our world, just plain werid in the out side world.

'Top 5' (is subject to change) - Even though their is two in each field, their is a reason, a comparson of story, art, difference in genre.  "It is quite hard to have no room for Spriggan or Evangelion off, they both have a special place in my heart ^_^"

1. Hikaru no Go - Seirei no Morbito
2. Meitantei Conan - Crest of Stars (or Star's Series)
3. Naruto Shippuden - Last exile
4. Ryuusei no Rockman - Allison and Lillia
5. Hunter X Hunter - One Piece

Top Genres: Even though their is pleanty of them, my most enjoyed are the following, but it can be any variation of them.

• Historical
• Sports
• Slice of Life
• Shounen

Honorable Mentions:  Martian Successor Nadesico, Fullmetal Alchemist, Witch Hunter Robin, Chrono Crusade, Escaflowne, Fruits Basket, GTO, Kodomo no Omocha, One Piece, Saiunkoko Monogatari, Samurai Champloo, Slayers, Black Lagoon, Jyuuousei, Mar or Bouken ou Beet, Kino no Tabi, Trinity Blood, Now and Then Here and There, Robotech/Macross, Elfen lied, Chobits, Ah! My Goddess, Death note, Hell girl, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Tsubasa resovoir chronicles, Bleach, Paniponidash!, Inuyasha.

Dropped Anime:  Dropped anime does not indicate that I didn't like it. It's more the case that I saw a couple episodes elsewhere and forgot about it.\

Won't Watch Anime:  I do not believe in an anime not worth watching or i don't want to watch.

Recommendations:  Starting with recommendations, each of the recommendations I do is based on how the Anime series in question is simular to the other in all specs but keeping in mind that it will neither be negative or positive, as i will leave you the reader to draw your own conclusion. The idea is if you read the recommendation, you will decided if this series is good or bad based on similarities.

Personal Reviews:  Are handled in a different prospective, as with many series they are either based or loosely based on some sub-genre(s) and hybrids. Alhough their will be simularities to other series in art, music, quality, story and form. Dispite each similarities each has it's own identity, several or one culture it draws from and attended audience which is also totally different then other countries standards. With all that in mind i make my reviews and also draw from the prospective of the popular fan based (i.e. CLAMP fans, Mecha fans, etc) Keep in mind i myself like many others still have our own idea(s) of a series and will hint so.

Other than anime:  (WAIT, there is such a thing, OH the horror) I'm into manga and movies (so basically my life is spent out-of-touch with reality, more it is my reality and everything is out-of-touch). I do other things like computers & video games, mainly RPGs. Kings Quest series (yea that is old), just about any of the Sierra adventure games or Blizzard Ent.

Anyway, I'm also a complete language-geek. Love to learn any languages from phrases to converstational, many of the languages i have partly learned thous far is French, German, Spanish and :) I do know Japanese (more then phrases or converstaional) and i am Native American (Navajo).

I will always been American, I joined the Marines and have been to Italy, Germany, Japan, Cuba, and others. I have be employed at many companies in the southwest. My current experience is based on my own education of world and local events. I have a degree in Networking Techologies, Web Technologies, Computer Science, and Minor in Japanese. At current i am a Union Electrican and engaged in my Electrical Engineering degree.

IRC & Messengers:  I put my messenger names up - at one time or another I've used them all. I access them all, but I will selfishly prefer if you use the msn or google, since my AIM is rarely used with people. ^_^ Also, if you're adding me, it might be a good idea to tell me (comment or pm in the forum), because my firewall might deny contact requests if I don't realize who you are. Their is much more to the person name Hikaru. Much more then this little window can provide.

- If you would like to further contact me, you can look for me on IRC (any server) with the nickname hikaru_shindo or shindo_hikaru. I am usually lurking in and out of Animanda.

My Collection:  As far as my anime collection goes, i have a total of 5 Hard Drives used for anime collection, 1 x 500 GB IDE for live action and 1 x 300 GB SATA2 (VelciRaptor) divided 200 for windows and 100 for documents. I have 2 x 500 GB SATA2 (formated 465.75) 2 x 1TB SATA2 (formatted 931.5) at for a total anime stored anime is 2794 GB, I still want to upgrade my space.  I may get more 1 tb drives in the future to replace the 2 x 500 SATA or the 1 IDE drives.

Anime Stats:  Well, over a little time i will continue to update the list of anime i have seen, in most cases it will jump up a a couple and/or several series and eps. Reasons for this is i may have already seen it, recently became listed, or have not verfied it against my own list which may or may not be upto date.

Profile Revision Date - August 29, 2009 Profile Revision 2.9a

Anime Revision Date - September 21, 2009 Anime Stats Revision 8