My Random Thoughts

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.

Created By Darkarax

2011 Birthday Bash

As some of you probably know, today is my birthday, and here is how I spent some of it so far. First, my aunt took me out to Red Lobster for lunch. They have such great popcorn shrimp. After that, my aunt and I went to Borders for some book shopping. I ended up buying the third and fourth volumes of the Code Geass manga. I also tried getting the rest of this manga anthology called Code Geass Queen, but Borders only had the first volume of said anthology, and I already have the first volume of Queen. After Borders was Best Buy, and I went there hoping to get Gundam SEED Destiny on DVD. Unfortunately, the anime section of this Best Buy was not only small, but it was also picked clean. They didn't have any anime that I wanted. I guess I'm going to have to try ordering Gundam SEED Destiny online again. I tried ordering Destiny online once before a few years ago, and they sent me the original Gundam SEED instead, which I already had. I'll try again though. After Best Buy, my aunt and I went to Target where I bought some new Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. I bought two packs of Starstrike Blast and four packs of Duelist Pack Yusei Fudo 3. Unfortunately, I was still unable to find Formula Synchron (Arrrgh!) but the Duelist Packs had a couple of cards that can help me summon Formula Synchron, Boost Warrior and Stardust Xiaolong. So I'd be lying if I said that today went exactly the way I wanted it to, but it was still a good day as birthdays go. Now, for no reason, here's the full version of the opening theme song to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, Road To Tomorrow ~Going My Way~, by Masaaki Endoh. Sorry there's no english translation.

Digimon: Call of the Ocean

Greetings readers. This first tale was inspired by an episode from the second season of the Digimon anime called, The Call of Dragomon, or as it is known in the dub, His Master's Voice. For those of you who don't remember that ...

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Dark Ocean Revisited

Last night got on Youtube and watched the subtitled version of the Digimon season two episode, His Master's Voice, or as it's called in the subtitled version, The Call of Dragomon. It was quite the trip down memory lane. I really wish the writers had continued with that story line.

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.