Hi, I'm Samantha! I am an African American. I've been a fan of Japan ever since I was little (Can you believe it??!☝) If anyone remembers, the show called
Shogun? It was a very popular TV series of that time(which I can't remember now...
). Well, anyway, since then, I was totally fascinated with Japanese culture and way of living. I had also been exposed to movies from Japan at the time, that I did not know was anime: Nausicaa by Miyazaki, and Five Star Stories Company: Dancougar Ace, GiKing(sp?), Spaceketeers, are a few of the titles that this company did. These shows were shown on cable, channel HBO, for the first time. It was not until later, at age 12, that I became infatuated with anime. I had met a club that was called the Indianapolis Animation Club at the first Comic Book Show, hosted at Holiday Inn. They were showing untranslated anime, that was fascinating. (They showed AKIRA, and Izcer-One. I don't remember what else they showed. I don't quite remember.) Since then, I've been working on learning Japanese by myself, by listening to pure untranslated anime, and books. Well, I hope to learn more Japanese and actually visit Japan someday. Ja ne!!