About Me

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No one would ever realize how important the anime series Eto Rangers is and has been to me. No one would understand why I would like a "childish" cartoon even to the point of doing a ton of drawings and a handful of fan fiction.

I was Michael in third year high school. Smart, arrogant, surrounded by friends. I'm not the most loved but I felt welcome in class.

...until I watched Eto Rangers.

It was the episode with Delacao's sacrifice which struck me. The tiger (as the able leader he is) managed to get himself hurt just to make Powell (the inept leader he is) face his phobia of cats.

From then on, I began to doubt what I thought was the meaning of friendship. I looked at myself, rotated that image 720 degrees, and asked if I would do the same for anyone who needed me. I also pondered my relationships with other people, and found out (concluded) that no one really cared for me. All my classmates became robots who did what you wanted them to do: make you feel good.

After all this pondering, I realized that there were more to friends than teaching people math and sitting in class and chatting with your seatmate. Friendship was sacrifice.

"Enemies tell you what you want to hear; friends tell you what you need to hear."

In addition to my quest to try to gain true friendship, I started to draw anime (it looked bad at first, but I practiced!), and write literature, all because of Eto Rangers.

I had made new friends and enemies because of Eto Rangers. But in the end, I was happy, for I had finally become truly myself, and gained new insight in the knowledge of life. I started to write stories about true friendship...

Percival and Darcy (c) Michael Mark Maquilan

My love for the series has not died yet. In my dreams, in my waking hours, I would occasionally envision the characters in both fantastic and realistic settings, helping each other survive the day.

And you ask, why do you bother with a crappy anime series no one knows about?

Simple. The series is very important to me. Eto Rangers taught me a lot; it remade me into a new person. It got me drawing and writing stories. It taught me the value of true friendship. And most importantly, it helped me realize what a fool I was...

I hope to share my insights with you as my readers and visitors, in The Thirteen Warriors: Eto Rangers.

-Michael Mark "Percival" Maquilan