Hello there. Welcome to my world of Random Thoughts. In this world I’ll be posting stuff about anime and manga. Not to mention various other topics. I may post the occasional music video every now and than. And from time to time, I’ll just talk about my life in general. But first, here are a few things about me.

I was born an only child, for one thing. Originally I was planning to go into art professionally, but recently I’ve been more inclined towards writing. I still do the occasional wallpaper every now and then though, and I also still draw a little. But much of my energy these days goes into writing fan fiction. I’ve also recently become interested in archive and library work, which is something I’ve discovered I’m good at. Finally, like most people on the Internet, I like cats.

Favorite Anime/Manga

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew, Card Captor Sakura, Vampire Princess Miyu, Dragon Ball Z, Code Geass, Digimon (Adventure and Tamers), Pokemon (Misty era), Gundam SEED, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Strawberry Panic, Rideback, Full Metal Panic, Slayers, Psyren, El Cazador de la Bruja, Sword Art Online, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Yurikuma Arashi, Kill la Kill, Parasyte: The Maxim, One Punch Man, and Mob Psycho 100.

Other Anime/Manga I Like

Buso Renkin, Gurren Lagann, InuYasha, Kannazuki no Miko, Shattered Angels, Bleach, Naruto, Durarara!!, Spice and Wolf, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, Dragonaut: The Resonance, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Trinity Blood, Blue Gender, Eden of the East, Last Exile, Soul Eater, Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040, Space Dandy, Black Lagoon, Citrus, Riddle Story of Devil, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Favorite TV Shows

Original Star Trek, Star Trek the Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space 9, Star Trek Voyager, Magnum P.I., Numbers, Shark, The Simpsons, The West Wing, Hawaii Five-O (Remake), NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, NCIS New Orleans, Blue Bloods, Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Leverage, The Mentalist, Elementary, MASH, Bones, The Red Green Show, Almost Human, Rizzoli & Isles, Supergirl, and Sherlock.

Other TV Shows I Like

Murder She Wrote, Simon & Simon, Adventure Time, Regular Show, Steven Universe, Powerpuff Girls, The Closer, Major Crimes, Columbo, Matlock, Futurama, JAG, The Rockford Files, Unforgettable, Emergency, Mysteries at the Museum, Castle, Covert Affairs, Alias, Due South, Nash Bridges, Body of Proof, Longmire, The Flash, Arrow, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, It Takes a Thief, Frasier, Home Improvement, and Last Man Standing.

Favorite Movies

Summer Wars, Short Circuit, The Abyss, The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, Tron, Tron: Legacy, Highlander, The Ghost and the Darkness, Dark Shadows, Ghostbusters, Twister, Apollo 13, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Predator 2, The Martian, Rocky (1-3), Creed, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man (1-3), Original Star Wars Trilogy, Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens, Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country), Star Trek Next Generation (First Contact, Insurrection, Nemesis), and the Star Trek Reboot Films (Star Trek, Into Darkness).

Favorite Musical Groups/Artists

Phil Collins (and Genesis), Journey, Styx, Boston, Queen, Heart, Meat Loaf, Billy Joel, John Denver, Survivor, Chicago (and Peter Cetera), and Josh Groban.

In addition to being a fairly good wallpaper artist, I'm also a fan fiction writer who's written quite a few stories on FanFiction.Net. To check those stories out, CLICK HERE

That’s pretty much all you need to know about me. I'm not sure how often I'll post something here, but I'll try to as often as I can. In the meantime, I hope you all enjoy visiting.

How I Discovered H.P. Lovecraft

I've been talking about the Digimon anime a lot today, and I remembered that it was because of Digimon that I discovered one of my favorite horror writers, H.P. Lovecraft. Let me take you back to an episode from Digimon season two. The dub title of the episode was called, His Master's voice. If you don't remember the episode from its title, it's the episode where Kari somehow get sucked into that dark ocean realm of the digital world. At the end of the episode, we see the silhouette of a large Digimon that had a semi-humanoid body, an octopus head, and bat like wings, plus two red glowing eyes. The show never did anything with that ominous creature, and I found out many years later that the reason is because the writers dropped that story line. Still, that image stayed with me for years. I actually tried finding a screenshot of the ominous Digimon at the end of that episode to use for this post, but I couldn't find one. Anyway, many years passed, and a student in one of my art classes was talking about H.P. Lovecraft, because no one in the class had ever heard of him, and because the sculpture he was working was apparently inspired by his work. I had heard Lovecraft's name before, attached to a few B-movies, but I didn't know that much about him. So after class, I went to the computer lab and looked up Lovecraft online. I found out that he was a horror writer who worked during early 1900s, and his most famous story, The Call of Cthulu, was about a horrible monster sleeping beneath the ocean, waiting for the day when it could awake and destroy the world. The monster, Cthulu, was described on the website I found as having a semi-humanoid body, an octopus head, and bat like wings. The moment I read that description, the memory of that Digimon episode rushed back to me. Later on, I managed to find and read an online copy of The Call of Cthulu. A few years later, I found a whole book of short stories by Lovecraft that I checked out a couple of times. I hope to get my own copy of that book one day. I also found out that the name of the ominous Digimon was Dragomon, and and his design was inspired by Lovecraft's Cthulu. So if it wasn't for Digimon, I probably wouldn't have discovered H.P. Lovecraft.

Classic Cyberdramon

THIS is what Cyberdramon should look like.

Xros Wars Cyberdramon

This is the best clip that I could find that shows what the Xros Wars version of Cyberdramon looks like. I like the original Cyberdramon way better.

The Changing Face of Digimon

This post goes out to all those who are fans of the first three seasons of the Digimon anime.

When the Digimon anime came out, I think I was just starting high-school, and it took me a little while to get into the series, about five or six episodes. After that though, I really got into the show. Season one was quite good. Than season two came and Digimon became really, really good. When Digimon season three, or Tamers started, I was a little thrown off that the show was an "alternate reality," but it had a good story line, great characters, and some really cool Digimon. Than Digimon Frontier started and that's when the franchise started to lose me. By the time Digimon Data Squad/Savers started, the show was moved to another network and it was on during another show I watched on a different channel. Plus I had no great desire to watch it. After that, the Digimon franchise disappeared for a few years. Than last year, the franchise came back with Xros Wars. I haven't actually watched Xros Wars. I could probably find the episodes on Youtube, but I've had neither the time or desire to watch them. I have been reading a few things about Xros Wars lately though, mostly out of boredom, and I don't really like some of the stuff I've read. Instead of digivolving, the Digimon combine like Transformers. I guess I'm a little okay with that, but the part I don't like is that they've changed the way some of the Digimon look. Greymon has been turned into some kind of cyborg, and Cyberdramon, one of my favorite Digimon from Tamers, has been turned into some kind of weird alien monster. I liked Cyberdramon much better as a snarling humanoid dragon who had a bloodlust for killing evil Digimon. I guess they've just changed what the Digimon franchise was. It happened to Pokemon, and sadly it'll probably happen to the Yu-Gi-Oh! franchise eventually. The only thing to do is just remember the Digimon anime the way it used to be. Thanks for reading.

Maiden Voyage

This is my first time creating a world, something I've never thought about doing before on this site. I've never really been interested in creating worlds, but I was kind of board today, so I thought I'd give it a try. I may create other worlds in the future. Like I've said in the introduction, I intend to use this world to talks about my thoughts about an anime or manga series that I'm interested in. For example I may rant about how Pokemon has changed over the years. I may also talk about stuff that happens to me that relates to anime and manga, like getting new anime DVDs for example. I'll also probably talk about stuff that relates to the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game. Although I'll probably make a separate world for some of that stuff, but I will talk about things like my first impression of the newest booster set to come out in Japan, once the spoiler for that set is completed that is. So this world might have a little something for everybody. I hope you all enjoy visiting the world of my random thought.