Hello and welcome to Keba's Anime and Manga Place (KAAMP for short)! Here at KAAMP, I write about anime and manga that I have seen/read as well as my views on them. I'll also post about my original stories from time to time.

Just beware that some of my posts contain spoilers. I'll put them in spoiler tags just in case.

KAAMP's history: KAAMP was created in July 2002 by yours truly. It was a sloppy-looking website on Yahoo's now defunct Geocities. I posted my anime fan art on that site. Also, for a time, I posted my thoughts on the few anime series that I had seen. Now that I look back on it, my thoughts were rather ill-informed (is that even a word?) because I had only seen bits and pieces of anime dubs. Now that I've seen more series, I think that my commentary on various anime will be a little better than before.

So, come on in and stay awhile! KAAMP is now in session.

Three Orders of Business

First: *Hugs everyone.* I hope this makes up for the fact that I haven't returned your chain messages.

Second: I just found out that the very person who introduced me to theO deleted her account. I don't know when it happened. I just checked my subscriptions and she was gone. Why does this always happen to me? I think that I've found someone and then they disappear. Wherever she is, I hope she's OK.

Third: In a matter of hours, I will be receiving a copy of Manga Studio 5! Last Sunday night I took the plunge and ordered it. 'Cause it was on sale at the official site. I was going to get it yesterday, but I didn't know that a signature was required. Of course, I was grocery shopping when the package arrived and left again. But today I'll be ready!

Edit: IT'S HEEEERE!!!!!!!1!!!!1!!!11! I started using it right away. I LOVE it!

Wow. That was kind of an emotional roller-coaster of a post.

Hugs for All!

I know people are doing these "hug" chains, and while I don't do chains, I don't want to be seen as a bad friend. So... *HUGS EVERYONE!!!11!!!!1!*

In other news, I'm editing my voice meme. I cut out about 10 minutes of awkward pauses, stutters, and bad phrasing and I'm not even halfway through the meme. Let's just say that I'm a lot more eloquent when I type.

I'm also working on 30DOA. Only 12 left to go! I figured that if I don't get all 30 done and posted by September, I'm going to stop posting them in the Fan Art section and make a Fan Comic. That way, I can post Challenge entries without having to submit them in between 30DOA sketches.

I have a very n00bish question, too. Since I have never posted a multi-page Fan Comic, is it possible to edit/revise the pages? I'm thinking of posting the answers to "Get to Know an OC" as sketches just to get them out there. Then I'd work on them digitally to make them look good and replace the sketches. Is that possible? If not, I'll have to work on touching them up before I post.

By the way, the OC meme is still open for questions. Ask as many or few as you like.

Also, I learned that pretty much the only thing different between Manga Studio 5 and Manga Studio EX 5 is that EX lets you organize stories. I don't think that the one difference is worth $100 more. So I'm going to go for the regular version. Hopefully I won't have a financial setback last next month like I did this month. (Ignore the word last. That was a typo that I fixed.)

Hmm, this turned from a hugging post into another one of my updates. Sorry 'bout that.