Hi, I'm Arahyacinth. Nice to meet you all *bows* I'm new to forums in general, but I love this site and lurk around here all the time, so I figured it was time to make the leap

Well, to start with I'm a big fan of anime, manga, and just plain Japan, but in my humble opinion, manga is the best of the bunch. I especially tend towards less-known or just plain weird stuff - seinen is my favourite category! But I also have a soft spot for the occasional shoujo, and I love action shounen as long as it has a decent plot/solid characters.

I'm a contradictory and offbeat person. Currently I live with my parents on their small farm, where I help with a little of everything, from cooking dinner every night to helping my mom butcher a hundred chickens in the fall. I graduated the year before last, but I was home-schooled since kindergarten, and my four younger siblings are still being taught here at home (I also have two older sibs, a brother and a sister). I write all the time, and make short films on the side, and I hope to become either a full-time novelist or a movie director someday. I enjoy all the arts; I'm also interested in anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and history, and I boast the strange hobby of reading both the dictionary and history books. Japanese history is my favourite, and I'm a big Shinsengumi fangirl!

Also! I'm always on the lookout for other home-schooled otaku, because one is the loneliest number

You guys probably didn't want to know all that, but hey - this is called Introductions...

sheesh you write alot!!
but thank god its good stuff. you sound cool.
butchering chicks and reading seinen are plusses in some books.
the reason i dont and try to avoid to write long textes on forums is most of the time i get tottally lost with meself. or my keyboard.. so i shouldnt. talking tomeself am i..?


anyway. Welcome.
so what are your favourite seinen's ?? read national quiz?
you wrote any books yet? where can we watch your movies..?
so you mean you never left the farm ?

Welcome, and... I got nuthin.

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That topic of homeschooled otakus seems to have been coming up alot recently, you should check out the thread about who reads manga, there are a few homeschooled otakus posting in there.

Anyways, congrats on making the leap and welcome

love your avvie and welcome to the community.

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Wow another person who likes to write long posts. Welcome to the forums. Watashi wa Uruena san. Hajimemashite. (since you are like me and love everything japanese). I just came back from a two hour statistics final and I am tired so i'll keep it short. I agree with you on everything in paragraph two except I would reverse the roles of seinen and shounen. Also my family has a farm too but I don't live there or go very often anymore. I did when I was small so i'm acquanted with certain thing but it was a crocodile / snake farm so it might be different from you. I posted somewhere the story of the beheading of the pig when I was small. Oh well nice to meet you again and hope you'll stick around and we interact more. This is short for me btw

No please stop posting in the what sorts of people read manga thread everytime I'm almost finished the statistical analysis someone posts and ruins my calculations. Grrrr jk go ahead if you like my worst exam is over so i'm freeish

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Yeah, I do get long-winded, don't I? No, I never left the farm. I might be moving out soon, though. As to books and movies, I haven't gotten anything out there (I'm not satisfied with the quality of my films yet, and I've submitted manuscripts for publication but haven't made my big break so far).

My favourite seinen are Black Lagoon, and anything by Toume Kei. Goth is a guilty pleasure for me... I've never read National Quiz, but it looks like something I might enjoy. I'll definitely check it out!

Hajimemashite, Uruena-san! I hope we can interact more too! It's always a good thing to meet more friends (Snake farm? I've heard of crocodile farming, but never snakes. Sounds interesting!)

Oh, and the home-schooled otaku bit in the 'who reads manga' thread was me It's an interesting thread - sorry, Uruena-san!

Thanks for the warm welcome, everybody. Now I feel more confident about exploring the rest of the forum.

Welcome!
That was a very good intro there! and like you this forum was the first one I've been active in. I just hope you end up sticking around just like I did.
And if you like Seinen I suggest you'd give this thread a look:
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=631
Very good suggestions for Seinen manga.

EDIT: and wasn't home schooling really boring? And how did you socialize and make friends? the concept of home schooling have always been mysterious to me...

Welcoommeee! =D

how nice to meet you =]

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Most of the stuff there I already have on my wishlist, if not on my reading list, but I did find a few things that looked interesting. Thanks for the heads-up!



Actually, it was really fun! My mom teaches us. We got the bookwork (math, science, all that jazz), but we always had hands-on projects on the side. She taught us things like how to apply chemistry when we were housecleaning, or anatomy when we butchered an animal, and we were always going on field trips. I liked school, which is probably why I still enjoy weird stuff such as reading up on history

As to socialization, I found friends in other places. I'm good friends with all of my family, and we have fun together all the time. When I was younger, we were part of a home-school association, and we met several families through that; there's neighbours, relatives of neighbours, people we've met through the local church, people I've met through odd jobs I've done, and even more relatives of theirs. I can't say I've ever really had a 'best friend' outside of my family, but that's not because of the home-schooling, it's because my dad is a roamer Our family generally moves every 2-3 years. We've lived in three places in North Carolina, two places in Virginia, and now in North Dakota. My dad is originally from Bolivia, too! I'm waiting for the day the whole family up and moves to Japan. (In my dreams...)

Heh I would have preffered self schooling to real school. Seriously what a teacher teaches in a year to a class by myself I can learn in a week or less. I do this regularly now that i'm in university. I just basically pay for the examintions and you move at your own pace and you write an exam on all you selected courses at the end of the year. You can take 3 years or 8 years if you like depending on your schedule. but I'll finish in 3 or 4 depending on what courses I take next year. I also love history but just as a hobby as there's no money in it and I need to make money cause my parent's aren't gonna be buying me manga when i'm 30. My favourite topic is the battle of waterloo and the people involved and napoleons life. Also ww2 and even further back to leif ericcson and the butchers that came to the new world. Also good empires to study are the roman and the ottoman. Oooh also the moors and el cid. And instead of watching stupid blockbusters actually reading the real story of helen of troy. Also right nnow i'm tryng to make sese of homer's odyessy as a project for my literature course it's difficult but worth it. Chinese civilization and that pasta is said to have originated when marco polo brought noodles from china back to italy. Wierd stuff like that. Also I studied the life of simon bolivar who liberated a lot of counties in south america. And i'm colombian. And i told you i'm long winded too. Simon Bolivar actually died in colombia because he fell in love with the country and on his death bed he wrote a beautiful poem for his cousin about the landscape of the beautiful country and looking out at the caribbean sea. It's a really moving poem especially if you can read spanish. Colombia is such a naturally beautiful place. Unfortunately well you know. Maybe one day i'll go back there to live /visit relatives. Sorry if my babbling bores you. Oh and a few good friends are always better than a classroom of monkeys trust me. I've never had a best friend either cause well I'm a bit shy and there's no body i've met in real life yet that can meet the requirements. lol. Oh I'm starting to babble again . I'll stop noow...

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My family used to move lots when I was younger... I was in the public school system though, so it was always harder to adjust. On a brighter note, welcome to the site.

Oh wow, great intro~ Welcome to you too

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Yeah, that's basically what my mom said. The public system just doesn't have enough time, teachers, or money to get across what a person can get themselves, or one-on-one with a teacher they know well. And the fast learners have to keep pace with the slow learners, instead of vice versa.



Simon Bolivar was a regular subject in our history class, because my dad's from South America, and of course Bolivia is named after Bolivar (even though he was never actually there, lol!) I love historical figures! It's like celebrity-stalking, only the people in question are dead, so you can't bother them

Celebrity stalking? I hope by that you mean only a similarity in the obsession with which you research historical figures and stalk celebrities. Cause celebrities imo aren't even fit to wipe the shoes of most of the great people of the past.jkjk But seriously I don't see why people are so obsessed with celebrities. What have they ever done to deserve being that admired? People like Bolivar are people you should learn from and try to emulate if you must emulate someone. Also my favourite person for the week is probably Brutus since i'm reading a lot of Shakespeare, Like Marc anthony said Brutus was the noblest roman of them all. At least from shakespeare's fictional account of the real man he's my favourite person in history this week. I need to do some real research on his actual life when I get the chance.

Yes Bolivia is named after bolivar and there are many cities and other tributes to him throughout South America. I'll post his final letter if I find it or remember the exact words.

The poem:
Querida prima:

¿Te extraña que piense en ti al borde del sepulcro? Ha llegado la última aurora: tengo al frente el mar Caribe, azul y plata, agitado como mi alma, por grandes tempestades; a mi espalda se alza el macizo gigantesco de la sierra con sus viejos picos coronados de nieve impoluta como nuestros ensueños de 1.805; por sobre mí, el cielo más bello de América, la más hermosa sinfonía de colores, el más grandioso derroche de luz...

Tú estás conmigo, porque todos me abandonan; conmigo en los postreros latidos de la vida, en las últimas fulguraciones de la conciencia. ¡Adiós Fanny!

Last edited by luisalirio84 at 10:25 am, May 11 2007

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