Re: self-intro---meow
Joshua Dziubek (redcomet@concentric.net)
Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:27:58 -0500
Wow, I go away for a week and the list picks up.
De-lurking to join thread.
Since we're introducing ourselves, I'll throw my hat in the ring. I'm
Joshua Dziubek, 23, hailing from Pittsburgh. I first got into anime in the
mid-80's without really knowing what it was, series like Robotech and
Voltron. Late in high school, several friends and I re-discovered the art
and began renting every tape we could get our hands on. The great tide
followed thereafter.
I admit to a fixation with mecha anime, particularly Macross, Gundam
(Universal Century. No matter how I tried, I just couldn't get into
Wing....), I'm a big Five Star Stories fan and think that Escaflowne is one
of the best anime series ever (barring LOGH, naturally). I'm also a rabid
model kit builder, mainly the Master Grade gundam line. I collect manga of
various sorts, some soundtracks (primarily Yoko Kanno-composed, but I've got
a few LOGH sets), and I attempt to write fan fiction (I'm not very good, but
my only published work, "Cops in Mega Tokyo" is on the raac archive).
How exactly I got into Galactic Heroes is quite possibly the strangest of
anyone. One lazy afternoon in college, I was flipping channels. The
res-hall cable system gave us all sorts of strange channels that I was
absolutely sure no one watched. And as I came across the Arab network we
had, there was Galactic Heroes.
I didn't know what it was at the time, but recognised it instantly as anime
(I believe it was "Yang Sends the Fleet" that I caught), dubbed in Arabic,
but complete with the japanese and english character and fleet titles. I
went back to watch a few days later, but the series had ended. Took me a
while to find out what it was and even longer to get my hands on it, but
when I did I was hooked instantly. Since then, I've got just about all of
my friends hooked and look for the day when I can get the rest of the series
subbed (One of my friends is going to Japan on the JET programme, I might
have him pick up the box sets if I can scrape up the money....)
So that's me and my discovery of LOGH in a nutshell.
Oh, Jennifer, the main Gundam mailing list can be found at gundam.aeug.org,
the archives, anyway, and has subscription info. I'm not subscribed because
it's very heavy traffic, but I browse the archive pretty often. It's an
overall subject list, tends toward Universal Century discussion, but with
the domestic release of Wing, I expect the subject to pick up more. Pretty
good people, Gundam-guru Mark Simmons posts, and best of all, there's little
to no yaoi. Sorry for the OT.
Josh
