Gender: Male
Age: 15 (I'll be 16 on the 25th)
Country/Continent: USA (California for those who care)
Race: Vietnamese
Main Personality Traits: Fun (though sometimes in an insulting way), compassionate if the time calls for it, otherwise composed.
IQ: Let's see. Out of the 500 10th graders at my school, I'd rank at about 4th.
Otaku or not: Not.
Favourite food: I don't understand how anyone could answer this question. There's just too much good food in existence, notably in San Francisco.
Height: I was 5'8" a year and a half ago - some say I've grown, some say I haven't.
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black, with certain reeeeeeeeeally dark brown areas on my head.
Favourite band/musician: Varies with time. I like Motion City Soundtrack currently.
Favourite English Tv Show: Heroes or How I Met Your Mother - can't decide
Favourite Movie: Varies with time. Let's say Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.
Favourite English Cartoon: Avatar, hands down.
Most Visited Website: Digg, B-U, Google - in order of visits per day
Favourite Actress: None
Favourite Actor: None
How many Siblings: 1 Brother, 1 Sister - both older

Holy sh*t!! Avatar (The last airbender) is an english cartoon ??
Wow it's not that surprising but I just didn't realise it

Hmmm maybe I should change my answer into that to...

Gender: Female
Age: 20
Country/Continent: Australia/Australia
Race: Caucasian
Main Personality Traits: Confident, intelligent, dont like conflict
IQ: Dunno IQ, my ENTER (school leaving thing, used to get into uni) was 94.25, which puts me top 6% of the state
Otaku or not: mmm not massively, I've got heaps of manga but I dont advertise it
Favourite food: Tacos, Apple crumble
Height: 170cm, (5foot 7?)
Eye Color: Greenish Brown
Hair Color: Blonde
Favourite band/musician: Changes a lot - Kelly Clarkson, Linkin Park, Evanescence
Favourite English Tv Show: Stargate (both), lost
Favourite Movie: LOTR
Favourite English Cartoon: Invader Zim
Most Visited Website: ummmm digg, devart, here and animesuki
Favourite Actress: None
Favourite Actor: Maybe Johnny Depp. Or none
How many Siblings: 1, 17year old brother

ph33r my geekdom!

Um what's an rx7. Just kidding the second line gives it away. But I don't really think the way the mangaka draws the bodies matters. But that's just me.



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Not really intelligent but more silly since I took I.B. (International Baccalaureate) in high school. If you guys know what I mean lol ><

Gender: Male
Age: 18
Country/Continent: Canada!
Race: Asian (more specifically Filipino)
Main Personality Traits: Little shy, silly, wacky, random yet still somewhat likable
IQ: 138? (Last time I checked)
Otaku or not: Yes... and proud to be one!
Favourite food: Longanisia (crap forgot how to spell it ><. It's cured sausages)
Height: 185cm (I think that's 5' 11''?)
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Black
Favourite band/musician: HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR
Favourite English Tv Show: House (on Fox) and Battlestar Galatica (friend got me into it recently)
Favourite Movie: Uhhh... too many to choose...
Favourite English Cartoon: Looney Tunes (classic ones)
Most Visited Website: Megatokyo, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Baka-Updates, and Sagubooru (beta version)
Favourite Actress: Hirano Aya and Rie Kugimiya for seiyu; Natalie Portman and Jessica Alba
Favourite Actor: Johnny Depp (his role is very witty ><) and HYDE (from L'arc-en-ciel cause he's bishie lol ^^'')
How many Siblings: A sister. But I think I corrupted her too.... (not too much but to a point where she can recognize moe in anime and bishojos... oh dear. She's only 10)

Other than that I read anything under the sun. I can tolerate yaoi but will depend on its... extremities.


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This is probably one of the most interesting surveys I've come across... and this is my first post on the site but definitely not my first time on the site ^-^ this post just.. sorta caught my eye =p

Gender: F
Age: 16
Country/Continent: USA
Race: Chinese/Thai
Main Personality Traits: Fun, shy at times, eccentric at other times, optimistic, and making people happy [not really a trait..but something i like to do]
IQ: err.. never took a formal IQ test but my grade average is an A
Otaku or not: what exactly does it mean to be an Otaku?
Favourite food: everything!!!
Height: 5' 1.25" [I think i'm the shortest here...]
Eye Color: Dark Brown
Hair Color: Dark Brown with very subtle red
Favourite band/musician: Arashi <3
Favourite English Tv Show: House
Favourite Movie: Titanic! [but there are soo many more...]
Favourite English Cartoon: anything Nickelodeon xD
Most Visited Website: Probably this one =]
Favourite Actress: Kate Winslet;
Favourite Actor: Johnny Depp, and then Matsu-Jun x3
How many Siblings: 3 [2 younger, 1 older]

I hope that helps.. answer your question ,

I would like to know how some of you guys began reading mangas... what was your first? =]


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My first was Ah! My Goddess... a friend of mine told me to read it... and forced me.

I was like, waaah noooo!!! Never!!!

But then... slowly, the poison began to spread.
...I actually enjoyed it.



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I just happened to come across them in my local bookstore and I had barely started becoming a fan of the Inuyasha anime, so when I saw the manga, I started buying them. So I guess IY was my first


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My first was Immortal Rain, which was a birthday present from my younger sister.

The first manga i ever held was Saint Tail. My dad gave it to me as present when he came back from Japan. It wasn't even in English. I think I just liked looking at the pictures. [i was young then] I'm sure the first time I ever read manga, it was a scanlation. tee.hee. I don't remember what manga though. **barely ever posts at forums**

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Let's see... uhmm... my first manga. Damn, I'm not sure really.

I fell into the Anime-trap last year when I watched Howl's Moving Castle, I began watching movies and eventually I began to watch series as well. Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion was my first series. Love Hina and Elfen Lied directly afterwards.

I think that the first manga I read was Love Hina, because I really liked the series and heard that the manga storyline continued for a while after the anime ending.

Afterwards I got started on Ichigo 100%, Kenshin and Koi Kaze, and then I was hooked on manga as well as anime. Happy days!

LOL well.. it's fun being short, neh? xDD

Inuyasha.. such a good first anime/manga -- I never got to finish it..


ahaha that's what I did to my friends when I got into the manga craze.. just started forcing the books on them =p


I've actually never heard of that one... was it good?


That one was cute..but sometimes I wonder how i finished it. I saw that anime the first time I went to an anime convention =]
I actually didn't discover scanlations until pretty recently.. I bought a lot of my mangas


such goooood animes!!! I love Hayao Miyazaki's films x3 Elfen Lied and Evangelion..such deep movies =]
I never finished Love Hina... but still that's very awesomee x]

ahhh.. I think I should've answered the question myself. First Anime = Samurai Pizza Cats [does anyone remember that one?] First manga = Sailor moon, my second was Kodocha -- which still remains one of my favorites

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Awwww you're so tiny

Also winterxlilac thanks for replying

@ the rest of you(guys and old women lol.jk). Stay on topic there is already a thread for your first anime and manga I think. Well if not make one please
So everyone can post theirs there without this thread getting locked.

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waah I'm sorry O_O >< I didn't mean to.. go that far off topic =.=

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Ahaha, I never finished it either. In the anime, I'm somewhere in the hundreds and I don't really read/buy the manga anymore Too many volumes @_@...



It is fun being small! Yes, yes, yes, I am tiny, but it has its advantages
At my school, the hallways are always crowded. So much so, that I wish I had powers like the characters of Heroes, so I could blast the people away/cut off the top of their heads and eat theirs brains Sylar-style [jk] or vectors like Lucy in Elfen Lied, so I could just toss them out of the way. But I actually don't have it that bad since I can duck through the crowd And not just at school! At busy malls, conventions, and many more places! I feel like I'm advertising now

Oh, and sorry for getting so off-topic, luis. Didn't mean to

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