Hello, nice to see you here! First i will tell you a bit about myself:

Name: Katherine

Age: 13

Appearance: tall, blond with dark blue eyes!

Things I like: anime, manga, jpop, books, laptop, smoothies, pizza, ice cream, butterflies, moomins and horses!

Things I don't like: Slugs, cheese sauce, clowns, rap music, football and harry potter!

Fave anime: tokyo mew mew, negima, clannad, air, k-on!, lucky star and studio ghibli stuff

Fave manga: Tokyo mew mew, negima, sunshine sketch, eternal alice and school rumble, geijutsuka art and design department, full moon o sagashite

Fave band/singer: Paramore, aya hirano, SCANDAL, Shiina Ringo

Least fave band/singer: Either akon or lady gaga

Fave anime/manga characters: Zakuro - Tokyo Mew Mew
Nodoka - Negima
Evangeline - Negima
Tenma - School Rumble
Fuko - Clannad
Ushio - Clannad after story
Yukito - Air
Tsumugi - K-ON!
Tsukasa - Lucky Star

Enjoy!

Way into the otaku universe!

Up until I was 11, I had never heard of anime. The most Japanese thing I had known was my Tamagotchi.
It began when my friend started talking about a program called ‘Mew Mew Power’ she had seen on Sky. I wanted to find out what it was so I eventually ended up watching 26 episodes on youtube because I didn’t have Sky. It was so bright and colourful that my ears didn’t seem to notice the terrible dubbing. I then proceeded to watch the rest of the anime subbed and enjoyed it even more. Tokyo Mew Mew is still one of my favourite animes to date, Zakuro is still my favourite ever character and I still find myself humming ‘Koi wa a la mode’. At Christmas 2007 I was given the first two volumes of the manga which I also enjoyed.

Of course my other way into the anime world was studio ghibli. It started off with Spirited Away, then Only Yesterday, then Totoro and before you knew it I had seen them all.

It has been three years since I found anime and manga (and more recently jpop) and what a great three years its been!!!