Everyone has an "About me" page. Everyone. Except maybe my oneechan, majik. Anyway, my actual friends who know everything about me kept asking why I didn't have a page about me. I replied, "Because no one cares." I still believe that. So why is this here? Well, it's just a place to store my miscellaneous obsessions. So, what do you want to know?

Name: Akane Saotome

Age: legal

Sex: Female

Residence: United States

Favorite color: Green

Favorite food: Chocolate

Favorite movies: Stand By Me, Pitch Black, The Wizard of Oz, Empire Records, The Princess Bride, The Joy Luck Club, any Kevin Smith movie (especially Chasing Amy), The Crying Game, Don Juan Demarco, Forget Paris, and any Jim Jarmusch movie.

Favorite TV shows: Kids in the Hall, Iron Chef (and most any other Food TV show), Farscape, VH1: Behind the Music.

Favorie books: Anne Rice, especially her Vampire Chronicles. She loves what I love: blood, sex, and dude kissin'. God, that makes me sound demented. I also love Stephen King, Barbara Kingsolver, Poppy Z. Brite, Linda Lay Schuler's She Who Remembers trilogy, and anything with gay boys or girls. OK, maybe I am demented...

Favorie comic books: Comic books were my first love, before anime. Generation X, Gen13, and Young Heroes in Love were all good, for awhile. The old Teknocomix were great, like Mr. Hero: The Newmatic Man and Teknophage. Right now, I LOVE Strangers in Paradise, Dawn, Joe Psycho and Moofrog, Milk and Cheese, and the Adam Warren Gen13 stints.

Favorie video games: WILD ARMS! Wild Arms, Wild Arms, Wild Arms! I had been wanting to play this Playstation RPG for months and months before I finally got it for my birthday. Did I love it? Was I obsessed with it? Let's just say I was known to mumble, "Rudy...must help Rudy..." in my sleep. I simply can't explain how great everything about this game is. Just take my word on it - and play it!

All encompassing obsession: Anime and Manga, obviously. Especially shounen ai, baby. Never can have enough boys' love.

Talents: Stop your dirty thoughts right now! Hopefully, you can consider writing my biggest talent. Maybe that's a depressing thought, but I've always put credit in my words. I love to write; I always have. According to my grades, I'm also adept at film. Woohoo! That should help me in the future, too. I have no talent in art, but I keep trying. And trying. And trying. *sighs* Anyway...according to the voters at the Otakon '98 Music Video Competition, I also have a talent in making amateur anime music videos. Oh, did you happen to see the 1998 Music Videos? Well, well, good for you. I won 4th place. *curtsies* Only five more votes and I would've had 2nd place. Doesn't that rock? Sorry, I'm just really proud of myself. Oh, you want to know which video it was? I'll give you a hint --- Ranma & Akane, Total Eclipse of the Heart. Of course, if you were at NekoCon R, my (and Will-kun's) FFVIII "Bad to the Bone" Music Video won FIRST PLACE! I was super excited. It was the crowning moment of my life. I can die now.

Goals: To be the one true Goddess of Shônen Ai!

Umm...no, seriously, I would like to spend the rest of my life immersed in boys' love. I'm hoping to either write novels, comic books, or screenplays, or write and draw my own comic book. *blushes* I would also like to start my own company dedicated to the promotion of shônen ai everywhere. This includes anime, manga, and doujinshi translations as well as the support of American born yaoi. Hey, a girl can dream, can't she?

More? *rolls her eyes* OK, jeeze.

Musical tastes: I'm a ska, punk, J-pop, Tori type of girl. Tori Amos is my personal Goddess. Nothing compares to her. As for J-pop, Two-Mix rocks! I adore them! They not only do the Gundam Wing themes, but the lead singer is the voice actress for Nabiki and Ascot! Kickin', huh? Oh, and my favorite ska-punk band is Reel Big Fish.

Yaoi anime tastes: I was deflowered by a lovely little show called Kizuna. I haven't been the same since then. It was amazing. Now, I adore Earthian (winged guys! Yeah!), Zetsuai (mmm, blood and sex, feeds off my vampire obsession), and FAKE. Hell, I love anything even remotely shounen ai!

Non-yaoi anime tastes: My first love was Sailor Moon. I compare it to marijuana; it's a gateway drug. But if SM is pot, Ranma½ is heroin. It's what propelled me into this downward anime spiral. If you're curious, yes I am very, very much like Akane...or at least I was until September of 1998. Now...well, now they tend to call me Sana-chan. As in the overly hyper, speed-talking, crackhead 11-year-old from Kodomo no Omocha (Child's Toy). I LOVE KNO! If you haven't seen it yet, go do so. But remember, Hayama is MINE! *giggles*

Anyway, these are my favorite anime series, in some order: Evangelion, KareKano, Kodomo no Omocha, Touch, Stage Fancy LaLa, Oniisama E..., and Mahou Tsukai Tai.

Turn ons: Hehehe, OK, that's an exaggeration. What I mean is, I prefer practically-anorexic, overly feminine 14-15-year-old gay anime boys. Accessories? I love: WINGS! WAI!, wire-rim glasses, white button-front dress shirts or white tuxes, gloves, ties, funny hair *evil Trowa thoughts*, musical instruments (especially strings and trombones), kneesocks!, jackets, soccer uniforms, aprons, and...dude kissin'! WAI!

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