BurntToShreds' Interview with ClyveFirst off, are you a guy or a girl?Yes.
We all know that you used to be extremely weeaboo. Could you tell us what caused this weeaboo-ness?Well, if you grew up in the 90s there was no shortage of kids' anime to watch. Everything from the obvious well-known stuff like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Digimon, to mid-level titles like Hamtaro and Cardcaptors, to the slightly more obscure Flint the Time Detective and Fighting Foodons. I'm pretty sure I watched at least a couple episodes of almost every single kids' series available in the late 90s. The worst part was deciding what show I was going to mainline when two were on at the same time. I usually just ended up watching one until the commercial break and switching over to the other. Haha, that reminds me, I used to watch them on our little rabbit-ear. You had to turn a dial to control the volume (you pulled that dial to turn the TV on) and push buttons on the side of the wood frame to change channels. Wow, getting off topic.
Then the new millennium hit and I was introduced into even more anime through Toonami and recordings of shows from Adult Swim that my dad made for me. That was how I was introduced into .hack (both SIGN and Legend of the Twilight, though I only saw a couple episodes of the latter) and Pilot Candidate and
especially Case Closed (AKA Meitantei Conan). Case Closed was a show that my entire family enjoyed--except for my mom, but she just wasn't a cartoon person--and my dad made sure that it recorded every night so we could watch it together the next day. I also really liked Zoids. Specifically, Zoids: New Century. I had this little notebook/planner thing and I wrote all these little notes in it that usually went 'HOMG THAT ZOIDS EPISODE WAS SO COOL AND THE PREVIEW FOR THE NEXT EPISODE WAS AWESOME AND BIT IS SO COOL'. I was getting deeper and deeper into the hole and I think the first turning point was when I stopped going to church because of anime. You see, I was and still am a giant Digimon tard and after waiting years for a follow up to Tamers, it finally came in Digimon Frontier. The trouble was, it was only played on Sundays when we were supposed to go to church. In that case, Digimon trumped getting my eternal soul saved but as they say '
through us let your spirit evolve.'The second turning point was meeting Jen. She was this really cool girl who always had good anime art posted in the art room and I sent letters to her classroom a couple times, but I never met her until I was in junior high. She told me about this stuff called manga and I respected her, so I went out and bought some. When I bought my first manga (Fruits Basket, Shichinin no Nana, and Saber Marionette J) I began to realize that there was a culture behind all these stories and I spent the next few years as a weeaboo. It's kind of embarrassing, but I was a kid and kids do dumb stuff.
On the upside, I did actually learn a ton about Japanese culture outside of anime/manga-related things and I will outright state I am the most knowledgeable person about Japan on the board. No doubt.
On the subject, what is your current favorite anime, and your all-time favorite anime?Current favorite is Tiger & Bunny. I've been out of the anime loop for a while, but this and Sailor Neptune got me back in. (Sailor Neptune was okay, I wouldn't put it in my favorites though.) Hunter x Hunter 2011 is pretty great too, because I really like the Hunter x Hunter franchise and I never saw the original anime, so I have a feeling I'm going to tell all the hardcore asshole fans of the first to shut up and enjoy the daisies series for what it is and not tear it down because it's not the exact same thing they watched.
My all time favorite anime is a series I have watched many times. Chrono Crusade is an anime written in the style of a Greek tragedy about a demon-fighting nun named Rosette living in the Roaring Twenties and battling demons with her partner Chrono, who's also a demon. (No wait, don't leave, it's better than it sounds.) Over the course of the series, you grow an attachment to the main characters (which are rounded out to a total of four by an apostle of god and a busty German jewel summoner) who're all running headlong into the end of the world as we know it, trying to accomplish the simple goals they'd set for themselves and always missing by millimeters. Is it about the destruction of humanity? Yeah, a little, but it's mostly about a girl who just wants her brother back. Also, saddest ending to any anime I have ever watched. Period. Sadder than Sailor Neptune, which really isn't that sad of an ending in the first place. I fuckin' bawled the first time I watched Chrono Crusade through. Princess Tutu is also pretty high up there, because it's a great story as well and it feeds into my love of ballet.
Do you have any other hobbies besides animu? I've seen posts of yours indicating that you dabbled in fan-fiction at one time. Do you still write?Yes, I still write both fanfiction and original stories, though I've been doing more of the latter lately. I still adore fanfiction because it's really fascinating to see how many people can interpret things different ways and how far the imagination of your peers can reach. Of course there's tons of shit, but what can you do? Naturally I'm also an avid reader, because what kind of shitty author would I be if I didn't read as much as possible? I also recently picked up knitting again. Good little dexterity exercise, that. Um... There's also video games but getting into that would require a whole 'nother interview in itself.
If you could have one thing in the whole universe, but made out of bacon, what would it be?It would be nothing, because I hate bacon and it makes me puke.
Finally, what Internet-related wish would you like granted?I wish I could make a website that'll have me set for life.
By the way, here's a pretty cool
Blue's Clues fanfic I read earlier. Fanfiction isn't all crap, guys!
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