About the Author

For anonymity’s sake let’s call her “H. Winston”. H graduated from Pomona College, majoring in Japanese. Her thesis was on the narrative techniques used in mainstream shounen manga (boys’ comics). She also spent a year in Kyoto, (mainly in the computer lab).

Hobbies:

Reading manga
RPGs (that’s role playing games on consoles, I’m no D&D geek)
Looking up famous scientists, etc. in the Japanese encyclopedia
Drawing and mostly coloring
Writing sappy love comics
Surfing the world wide webberverse
Watching children’s cartoons and ancient game shows

Pointless Bragging

Anime fan since 1995
Had a Cowboy Bebop poster up on her wall in early 1999 (the anime came out in the ’98 to ’99 season). [That’s right! I liked Bebop before it was cool or knew what it was…]
Final Fantasy fan since elementary school
Owns 500+ volumes of manga (and likes to pretend that’s a lot)