~About/FAQ~

I’m a old-school and new-school Otaku that lives in Quebec City, Canada working as a Lab Manager for Software Configuration and Management.

Deep down, I’m an otaku. I am sociable, outgoing and active according to others, but I know I am an otaku. While my love for Japanese media, architecture, technology and cultural elements stretchest to the time before I fell in love with anime, manga, and games, a growing part of my desire to live and work in Japan is fueled by it. To a person like me, Japan has a gravity of its own that I cannot deny.

I’m a recently started blogger, only been doing this since mid-2007, been growing in popularity, and soon will start allowing affiliate links and advertising. A recent convention-type as well, I’ve been going to conventions representing my blog as of the past year or so. Well, I’ve yet to find reasonable success with that yet, not many conventions are willing to give decent access to small time bloggers, but I’m working on it!

I’m a blogger, now. I’m also a conventioneer, an amateur photographist, and now that I’ve started slowly making a name for myself, v-logger as well. I hope to establish good ties with media and manufacturers, but since I’m so deep in Eastern Canada, I know that it will be a difficult road ahead. But hey, that’s what makes it worthwhile. The things most worth seizing lie at the end of toil, hardship, and risk.

A Tachikoma is a fictional ‘character’ from the Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex series. It’s an artificially intelligent armored vehicle that has a sort of arachnid configuration, used for counterterrorism and observation missions. They are infamous for their group-yet-individual mentality and personified by astoundlingly cute youth voices filled with genki energy.

Tachikoma-tan is a plush effigy of a Tachikoma, regularily used, abused, by Len-Vesper, and kindly acts as a silent partner and co-host for vPosts. the ‘-tan’ suffix appended to the name is a cute version of ‘-chan’ used mainly to describe mascots and such in Japanese language.

In a nutshell, this blog is fueled by what makes Otaku types tick. Pretty figures, awesome games, zany media, awesome anime series, jpop, jrock, things that range from ‘moe’ to ‘ecchi’ and from ’sugoi’ to ‘kakoi’. I cover as much as I can about Otaku life and otaku merchandise from a Eastern Canada point of view. This blog employs all method of communication, from text, visual, aural and to mix it all up in a big melting pot, video.

‘Fuwa’, as in fuwa-fuwa, means ’soft and fluffy’. Like a really soft pillow, a baby rabbit, but it can also relate to visual effects. Soft colors, feathery lines, a rather welcoming and ‘purun’ chest, or even the ‘breath’ of a panchira…

Yes and no. I have a basic level comprehension of Japanese, though people say I know more than I let on. No I don’t. I know I am unskilled at Japanese and I’m not afraid to admit it. I actually get scared to use it in fear of embarassing myself. My trip to Japan will be trying times.

As for being a ‘weaboo’? No, I don’t classify myself as that at all.

Absolutely. If you have a blog with interesting content I think my readers may appreciate, I will blogroll with you without problem as long as you don’t have any malicious or annoying code. Just let me know where you added my link so I can take a visit to look-see what you got going on, and we’ll exchange links!