I’m back, keeping my promise by keeping this column updated. This week I’ll be clearing a few things up about this column and other things I feel is important… or not important your call.

First off, let’s take care of some FAQs about me.

Q: What does that math question equal too?

A: It’s an Imaginary Number… a math question that has no answer no mater how many times you try to figure it out. No it doesn’t equal anime… or does it?

Q: Aren’t Imaginary Numbers the bad guys from Front Mission 3?

A: Yes.

Q: What is an Editorial Director?

A: I am basically the guy that sits on top of Otaku Aniverse and Gaming Media. Due to the lack of staff here, I’m also taking on the job of Staff Writer, Executive Editor, Graphics Designer and the guy to yell at when something isn’t right.

Q: Favorite anime?

A: That’s a hard one, Evanagelion, Utena, Key the Metal Idol, Lain, Gasaraki… I could go on…

Q: Worst anime?

A: Tokyo Project

Q: How long have you been watching anime?

A: Another hard one, I was first exposed to it in 1984… but I never really got into the fandom until 1996 (or was it 1997?) When I saw Ghost in the Shell… until then I had always been just a gamer… now I’m both!

Q: Favorite artist?

A: Tie between Satoshi Urushihara and Keiji Goto

Q: Were these questions even asked by people?

A: Naw, I just thought everyone wanted to know more about the person that will be ranting every week…

Getting back to my last episode for a sec, it seems it was brought to my attention that there’s a real good reason behind the logo change for Alien 9. Many thanks to Kathryn Williams to clear this up.

I just read your rant and thought you'd like to know there is a good reason for changing the logo. All the titles for Hitoshi's manga are created by an artist called Inden (I think that is right, curses tiny type) They couldn't Hire a new artist just to rewrite the title in teh same stayle as Inden now coupld they? The Japanese titles is rather hard to read on it's own and they had to add in a second normal typed title. If they had the Japanese title it would confuse people and less would buy it so they had to make a distinct difference between the two. Considering this is the only change it is one I'm willing to live with.

Well as long as there is a reason behind the change, I suppose it is right. I had originally thought they did it like other companies out there because “It looks cooler this way.” The gaming world does this a lot in fact.

Well that’s it for this week folks! Next week I’ll have something more interesting to read… but now I must continue my quest to get through my endless pile of paper work that never gets done.

-- Eddie Hicks, Otaku Aniverse