I guess, since I'm new here and all, I should somewhat introduce myself... My name is ***** but you can call me bored or Kira :P I'm really into music and anime/manga so much so that my parents get mad at me and yell at me when I don't move off the couch for days on end while I'm reading or writing fanfiction. I'm a pretty decent writer I guess, but I have no clue what I'm going to do in life even though I've already started college. But, thanks to J. Micheal Tatum, I am considering becoming a voice actor! I would become an actual actor, but I have some major stage fright and I think voice acting would be a great career ;) anyway, I'm rambling, it's nice to meet everyone and I hope J Micheal Tatum comes to visit California sometime soon! :lol:

Welcome, bored! I'm sure a fair amount of us have the same problem with getting yelled at for being completely consumed by computer screens and manga books, so no worries if you think you're alone on that one. If you feel like sharing your fanfiction with us, please go ahead and post it in our fanfiction forum so we can enjoy you writing too. We're so excited to have such a dedicated fan for Mr. Tatum join our group because he's quite an inspirational man, and he influences all of us in different but special ways. Like you, a few of us also have been motivated to pursue the business of voice acting, so good luck to you! And no worries on not knowing what you want to do after college-- it's a big decision, so take your time and really think about what makes you happy.

To get our new shadows more involved and more at home, we like to ask you fun questions-- I'll get the ball rolling. :)

If you could only read or watch one anime/manga, what would you choose and why?

Welcome to the group. I'm Justin, nice to meet ya.

Hope to see you around, and that you have fun while you're here.

Welcome to the Family.

hm, i would probably choose Ouran High School Host Club. Not only because Tatum voices Kyoya, but also because it's actually a very deep manga/anime and i would never get bored of reading it since i would find out something new about it every time i do ^^

Welcome to the Shadow Followers, bored!

What's your favorite kind of animal?

I never really had a favorite, since i love pretty much all animals, but if i had to choose I'd say...a maned wolf. They're a bit odd looking, but I think they're really neat. But if you were talking about an animal that I could keep as a pet, I'd probably say cats or a husky ^^ I actually have a black cat that I named after Yoruichi from Bleach since she's all black, but my parents (being complete English speakers who don't know ANYTHING about Japanese) couldn't pronounce her name so we shortened it to Ichi. :P Ah, I'm rambling. I tend to do that a lot sometimes. Sorry.

Hi! And welcome! Your cat seems cool, you said your parents speaks english so I assume you live in the US, right? I guess I was just tempted to comment because of the Sebastian avatar ... :lol:

I do live in the US, Southern California to be a bit more exact, and I'm glad you liked my avatar ^^ i like yours too. Every time i see it i copy it when nobody's looking :P and my cat is really ridiculous. She reminds me of those fainting goats because whenever i walk anywhere near her, she just kind of falls over, wanting to be pet <_<

OMG that sounds adorible, I can't help but laugh whenever I see those goats, so cute! I have long nails, so cats usually love me, but I don't have one :'C I used to when I was a kid, but it died.

Sorry about that. I actually got this cat because I had another one that died due to an incurable disease. I was so broken up about it that we went out to find another (all black) cat and found this one in the pound trying to attack me through the bars. We instantly knew that she was the one and now she follows me around and attacks my ankles sometimes. It's really funny when she runs out of water too, because she'll knock the whole thing over to let me know that I need to refill the water dispenser. :lol:

owie! I'm warning you thet I might try to steal your cat if I ever get the opportunity, but since that is highly unlikely you don't have anything to worry about.

I would hope you didn't take my cat :o I can get a bit like Sebastian when it comes to her. :P

I see why >.< And if you get like Sebastian ... well let's just say I wouldn't want co come between him and his cat ...

Ahaha :lol: Sorry! I just love my cat that much.

Hope you're not as strong as him, that'd be creepy.

that would be creepy :o I don't think I am, but I wish I could. Life would be so much easier with Sebastian's demonic powers. :P

Yes, every time I walk up stairs or do anything physical I say to myself "come on if Sebastian can do it you can!"

Nice! I should try doing that, but I normally try to keep my temper under control by thinking "If Kyoya can be all bank faced when he's angry, so can I. Just be blank faced like Kyoya." :mellow: It's hard, but I have to to keep from going Sebastian on my younger siblings. :lol: I have 6, so it's easier said than done.

Oh you got siblings :o Me to I feel you bro, I've only got one and I have managed to train it quite well but before I got the hang of him he was quite the troublemaker.

At least you could train yours. Mine are like the three stooges (i.e. Bard, Mey-Rin, and Finny) only there's more of them :o and almost all of them are trouble makers. Actually...I think I have my own family host club here. *face palm* lets see...I have the goofy blonde, the twins (although their not really twins, they just act like them), the sweet loving little kid, plus a Renge. Then I'm like Kyoya, Haruhi, and Mori combined :huh: Life gets pretty crazy at my house.

Ok that actually sound kind of awesome! Stressful but awesome still, my family is crazy to, but we are more like a group of mega nerds ...

Stressful, yes. Fun? Eh, sometimes. :D But things definitely get crazy at my house. Especially since we have a couple of little demons living here and they always cause havoc. Okay. Now I have a question for you! B)
What's your favorite animes/mangas and, if you could, which one would you want to be in?

wow that's a serious question man! Well Black Butler is one of them and fruits Basket is my favorite manga, no doubt. I also like Hetalia and fullmetal alchemist brotherhood. I love soul eater and i cant wait for rozen maiden season 3, Ilove baccano to ... impossible to choose!!! Fruits basket i my fav manga and I guess you can put black butler anime, but I love Hetalia to, it's like it was made for me ... Maybe Hetalia is the one I would be in ... I have no problem doing a norwegian accent.

ahaha :lol: that's alot. but I've got a lot too. i like FMA, Black Butler, Ouran, Baccano, Naruto, Bleach, Ghost Hunt, and a whole ton more. and I would want to be in either Black Butler, Naruto, or Ouran. all three are pretty awesome and who wouldn't want to be in them? Next question!
What's your favorite animal and do you have any pets? And if you could, what pets would you want to have?

I used to have a cat and a dog, but now I dont have any animals. I have this horse that I can ride when ever I want to and I have allways liked horses. If I could have any pet I wanted It'd have a pocket Martin, I think he'd make a great pet.

i have my own cat, but in my house, there are two other cats; my sister's and my mom's. We also had two dogs, but one died recently (my dad's) and the other one's my mom's. We have had an assortment of animals too. We've had lizards, frogs, fish, and rats. And if I could have any pet, I'd want a horse. I've always had a fondness for horses, but have never actually had one or anything. :) although I'm sure a pocket Martin would make an awesome pet too :P

Ooh you're lucky my mom doesn't want anything to do with animals :'C

aw. that sucks :( i don't think i could live without my cat. poor sebby can't. that's for sure :lol: next question!
what's you favorite genre of music and, more specifically, you favorite band and your favorite song?

he he he ... I have the WORST taste in musik ever. The only thing I listen to is soundtracks ... I guess it's because my mother is a DC so she plays a lot of musik and growing up with musik around me constantly I have grown bored of it. I don't know. Genre doesn't really matter to me I can enjoy 70 year old men playing the fiddle as much as rock ... The weirder the better :D (not really) But yeah I've never really been into any bands ... last song I listened to was the second sgt. Frog opening. Lately I've been digging the sherlock soundtrack and the hobbit soundtrack, oh and also the baccano soundtrack!






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I love the soundtracks to movies and shows. My favorite composer is Hans Zimmer. He's the one who does the music for Pirates of the Caribbean and other good movies. Sherlock and the Hobbit are definitely another couple of soundtracks I enjoy too. I haven't checked out the Baccano soundtrack yet, but it's certainly something I would look into :) I'm mostly a rock and alternative type of person, but my favorites so far are K-pop and J-rock. My favorite artists are Gackt and 30 Seconds to Mars, and my favorite songs are "The Kill" (30 Seconds to Mars), "The Last Song" (Gackt), and "Wherever You Are" (One Ok Rock). I'm also a weird one I suppose you could say. I get more into foreign songs than anything else.
Question: Do you write? Short stories? Novels? Fanfiction? And if so, what are they about?

Please do not use this word on the forum. Thanks.



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Hmm you seem to have good taste in musik:D

I'm not much of a writer, but sometimes if I have alot on my mind in terms of theoris about something book, anime, tv show I'll write it dow just to get it out of my head. I don't really like writing most likely because I'm bad at it. Sometimes I read fanfic, but mostly in german, german johnlock fanfic is sort of my guilty pleasure ...

You're probably not as bad as you think as far as writing goes. I was horrible and strictly wrote dialogue for a while because I felt that I sucked at writing, but I found out that writing more and reading a lot actually helped me improve my writing and now I write pretty well, although I feel I still have a lot of room to improve. ;) I also have multiple fanfics from different anime/mangas and shows(death note, BBC sherlock, ghost hunt, two ouran ones, 07 ghost, Uragiri wa Boku no Namae o Shitteiru, katekyoy hitman reborn, and w juliet). I seem to have a problem with starting too many projects at once though. <_< and my guilty pleasure is probably reading yaoi in general when my parents aren't looking...
What are your hobbies?

I cosplay, go to conventions, go horse back riding and stuff like that. Besides that I spend a huge amount of my time just nerding stuff, mostly lord of the rings and english.

I wish I could do those things, but I come from such a big family that we don't have a whole lot of money to go to conventions and cosplay. Although I did cosplay as Light for Halloween since all I needed was a tan jacket XD I pulled him off pretty well too, I must say. And I would totally love to go to a convention with J. Micheal Tatum, but he never comes to Southern California and the Anime Expo we have here is a bit far. My hobbies though, are writing fanfiction mostly. But I also play trombone when nobody's home to hear me :D
Do you speak any different languages? And, if you could, what languages would you learn?

I speak Norwegian English and some german, I'm trying to learn elvish, but it's hard and time consuming if I could learn any language it would definetly be sindarin, elvish.

Coming from Norway gives me a great advantage as far as learning languages go. Norway's got a huge variety in dialects which makes us good at understanding languages .I don't have any problems understanding Swedish, but they don't always understand me, same goes for the danes, can't even tell the difference between written danish and written norwegian. (but when they speak they sound like they're choking on a potato) Norwegians doesn't dub movies (I see why we are even worse at dubbing movies than we are at making them, I thought I was going to die of laughter when a norwegian movie got nominated for an oscar ...)
so every one in norway get to hear a variety of languages in their youth. These factors makes us well equipped for learning languages, and makes us one of the nations that learns languages the easiest.

That's cool. I only speak English fluently, but I've taken two years of Korean in high school along with two years of Japanese and a semester in college. plus two semesters(or a whole year) of French. I seem to have a problem dropping out of language classes once they get to the third year because I'm not one who likes speaking to people (face-to-face I mean) and that's around the time where all they teach is conversation. :unsure: That, and I've forgotten pretty much everything as far as those languages go since I don't use them. I AM planning on going to live in Japan though, so I should be able to pick that back up fairly easily. :D
If you could live anywhere, where would you live and why?

I would live in England. I LOVE England and I would love to speak better English. And it's not far from where I live. But I love living in Norway. Norway is brilliant we have everything we need; the country is ruled brilliantly we have everything we could ever dream of. But people don't seem to appreciate it and it makes me sad that they don’t realize that they live in the bet country in the world.

That's cool. I'm personally debating on moving to japan, England, or Korea. One of my friends is dead set on at least visiting those places and her and I are trying to relearn Japanese and Korean in preparation :D Besides, I've always liked cool rainy days and England seems to always have that so why not? All I need to do now is convince my mother that it's okay to let me go <_<
What's your favorite TV series (not anime)? And why do you like it?