50 Things You Didn’t Know About IreneSharda

I am fire! And life incarnate! Who dares to ask the first question? 

Okay, okay, so I promise I won’t burn you if you if you want to ask a question…well, not much anyway. 😀 So, I guess it’s my turn? Well, I guess I don’t mind, this should be fun! Well, what should you know about me? Well, I have kind of written all the main stuff in my bio and intro and all of that, so I won’t reiterate. Instead, I get to write detailed answers to fifty (50?!) various questions. Well, make of this what you will. I will try my best to keep you entertained.

 

1. Who is your favorite male anime character?

This was a pretty hard question, there are so many male characters that I think are awesome, from Edward Elric to Lelouch vi Britannia to Sousuke Aizen. However, I think that I will have to split my answer. Because I feel that mecha/space opera characters are a bit different from all other anime characters, I have my favorite mecha male characters, and then my favorite anime male. There are two male mecha characters that have arisen to become my favorite. First, I’m going to go with a classic in my favorite being Casval Rem Deikun, though he is known by most by his infamous alias: Char Aznable from the Gundam UC Era. The second is the guy known as the “One-Man Army”, Mikhail. But he is known to most by his codename, L-Elf, from the Valvrave series.

In terms of non-mecha,  I again have two favorites: Hyoubu Kyousuke from Zettai Karen Children/The Unlimited, and Killua Zoldyk from HunterXHunter/HunterXHunter 2011.

Yep, that was 4 favorites, I don’t call it cheating, I call it “diversifying”. 😛

Cutest assassin you’ll ever see.

2. Who is your favorite female anime character?

Honestly, I have less answers here than for the male side. My favorite mecha female character is Artesia Som Deikun, also known as Sayla Mass from the Gundam UC Era. My favorite non-mecha anime female character is Mikasa Ackerman from Attack on Titan.

Both brother and sister make this list, both are beyond awesome!

3. What is your favorite anime soundtrack?

That would be symphonic soundtrack to HunterXHunter 2011. There are just so many breathtaking tracks there, and I will never forget Reatsu and the Zoldyk theme for as long as I live.

Best Runners-Up: Anything by Hiroyuki Sawano, the Symphony SEED soundtrack album from Gundam Seed/Destiny, and some of the of the soundtracks of Bleach.

4. What is your favorite anime opening + animation?

Tricky one, I was almost going to go with “Guns & Roses” from Baccano or “Inori~You Raise Me Up~” from Romeo X Juliet, or even “Guren no Yumiya” from Attack on Titan.

But I actually ended up settling with one a little less flashy, and yet full of depth in both the song and the visuals. The opening I’m going with is “Diver” from Naruto Shippuden. The song is simple and yet powerful when you know what it’s saying and the symbolism in the visuals get me every time.

5. What is your favorite anime ending + animation?

Again, this was hard since, there were so many good ones, but I’m going to go with actually a pretty obscure one from a pretty obscure series. That’s “Daisuki na kimi ni” from Yuki no Joou or The Snow Queen. There is no actual animation to the ending sequence, and instead, it’s artist’s sketches of the main heroine with just a beautifully simple song overlaying it.

6. What is your favorite anime scene?

There are a lot of extremely great  moments in anime and in Hunter X Hunter 2011, the anime that I have chosen my favorite scene from. This scene isn’t the most well known in the series, and there probably are some that are more deep or profound, but the scene between Gon, Killua and Neferpitou in the second half of Episode 116 “Revenge x And x Recovery”, was so striking, so pulling, so raw. The radical change of Gon from who he normally is, to this broken, emotional, rage-induced wreck, was one that I won’t ever forget.

7. If you could meet an anime character, who would it be?

If I could, I would like to meet Sophie and Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle. They two are so interesting and fun, and I would love to ask about their castle and all their adventures.

 

8. What anime character is similar to you in terms of personality?

Well, I guess I’ll go with the one that I chose as my avatar, Princess Yona from Akatsuki no Yona. I chose her, because like her, sometimes I’m a little naive and quite sheltered (though less so as I’ve gotten older). I’ve carried myself with the bearing of princess since my dad started calling me that, and I’ve grown from being a little introverted and shy, to being more outgoing, but perceptive, more outgoing, and even fierce when the need calls for it.

 

9. What is your favorite thing about anime?

The stories and the characters and the feeling that anything can happen. It’s not as bound as many Western cartoons (though I really enjoy those too), and there are things that I can enjoy from when I was a kid to now as an adult.

 

10. What is your least favorite thing about anime?

The constant cliches and archetypes, and the fact that finding a good well-rounded female character is far and in between, especially in an action series.

 

11. Who is your favorite anime couple?

That would have to go to Rintarou Okabe and Kurisu Makise (or Hououin Kyouma and Christina, if you prefer LOL). Not even coming from a romance anime, the romance that develops between the two main characters of Steins;Gate have some of the most extensive development and relationship building that I have seen in an anime ever. A couple of scientists that started off getting on each other’s nerves, but develop a close and complex relationship that crosses both space and time and reality. One not built on the simple or superficial, I haven’t come across an anime yet that has had a romance fleshed out to this extent. It was one of those series where instead of waiting impatiently for the couple to just get together already, you were happy to see them just talk and spend time together.

 

12. Who is your favorite anime animal?

All the “animals” of Fruits Basket. There’s just something about the way their eyes are drawn and how simply they are shaped that just make them so adorable. Plus their characters and backstories just make you want to take them all into your arms even more. 🙂

Look at them….they’re animals! 

13. What anime would make a good game?

Well, most anime that I would have become a game, actually already have. Bleach, the Gundam series, and Yu Yu Hakusho all have games already. I can’t really think of any others, other than maybe HunterXHunter, but that probably already has a game too.

 

14. What game would make a good anime?

I don’t play many games, but honestly, one that I would beg to become a full-fledged anime series is Final Fantasy VII. I’ve seen the OVA, Last Order, and they could honestly do something awesome if they just animated the entire thing.

 

15. What was the first anime you ever watched?

There are two that I actually watched in tandem with each other when I was only 4 years only and didn’t even know what anime was. These two both came out in the 80s and were called Anime Oyako Gekijou (and its sequel, Personal Computer Travel Tanteidan) and Tondera House no Daibouken. I knew them better by their Americanized titles: Superbook (and Superbook 2) and The Flying House.

 

16. Do you ever think you’ll stop watching anime?

I’ve stopped before, and I’ll probably stop at some point again, but I’ve also come back to it before and I think I will do so again.

 

17. What is your favorite genre of anime?

Mecha/Space Opera, Adventure/Action, Fantasy/Sci-Fi, and Romance, I love all of these equally, so it’s hard for me to pick just one.

 

18. What is your least favorite genre of anime?

Sports, Horror, or anime about “cute girls doing cute things”. I find that either I can’t stomach them or they bore me beyond belief.

 

19. Are you open to watching anime with people you know?

Sure, all my family and friend know, I’m not as open with people I don’t know or just average acquaintances unless I see that they have an interest in anime as well.

 

20. Have you ever been to Japan?

No, I haven’t but it’s one of the places on my list to visit one day. I love to travel but haven’t been able to travel out of the country yet. Japan would be the first place in Asia, I’d want to visit.

 

21. What anime was the biggest let down for you?

The biggest let down for me, has to be the recent Aldnoah.Zero. I’ve never been so pissed off at the ending of series (anime or otherwise) more than that one. I think the biggest issue was that I was so invested in the characters and what was going on and my expectations became too high. The finale was such a big letdown and made me so furious that I couldn’t even watch the subbed version. I had such a visceral reaction to it that it practically affected me physically. Some have said that the beginning or ending of a series can make or break it. I never really saw the truth to that, until Aldnoah.

 

22. What anime was better than expected?

Honestly, there are a lot of series that end up being better than I had thought. Most of them being shounen series for some reason. I thought FMA looked boring, Bleach wasn’t my thing in the beginning, and it took force to get me to see HunterXHunter. However, in the end, FMA became one of my favorite anime of all time, Bleach ended up being one of my favorite long-standing shounen series for years and giving me my favorite anime villain of all time, and HunterXHunter was just great on many levels. In fact, I often find that series that I seem to take the most dislike to by just seeing the cover, I end up being some of my favorites.

 

23. What is the best anime fight scene?

My favorite anime fight scenes are often the ones that really are over before they’ve begun. I’m not one to really enjoy constant back and forth moves and constantly flying fists, and such. I can never watch a series like Dragonball Z, as the fights take much too long. For some reason, the story in shounen series can pull me over, that I do enjoy the fights, even if some of them take way too long. However, I mostly enjoy fights that are either fights of the mind (ones that involve a test of strategy or tactics) or ones where the odds are so overwhelming that the other side should just give up. For example, most fights that Aizen is in. The man in super intelligent and beyond OP, and I love OP characters (as long as they’ve got a sharp mind to go along with that power).

So, the fight I picked, if you even want to call it that, is the “fight” between Gon and Neferpitou in episode 130-131 of HunterXHunter, “Anger x And x Light”. This was the best moment in the entire series, and the very atmosphere, the tone, the music, having seen Gon go from being the most happy-go-lucky kid in the world, to this moment where he was literally shattered, and what happens after that. It will make you cheer, but it will also make you bawl like a babe. It’s more than a fight, it’s much more powerful and meaningful than that.

Runner’s Up: Mustang vs Envy from FMA: Brotherhood

 

24. Who is your anime waifu husbando?

Hmm, I never really thought about such things before, but after having thought it over, I came up with actually two candidates:

The first is rather recent, being Narsus of Arslan Senki. One of the major attractants for me has always been a man’s intelligence and how well he can utilize it. But on top of that, I’m at the point in my life where I prize stability and safety over the stereotypical “cool guy” or “bad boy”. Narsus is indeed incredibly intelligent and is an incredible fighter, but he also has no problem with settling down, and he can support a family well. Also, another major attractant for me is long hair, and Narsus, both the blond-haired/violet-eyed (2015) and the brown-haired/brown-eyed (1991) version are visually pleasing.

The second, I’m actually leaning more towards, is anime’s favorite husband and father, Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist/FMA Brotherhood. Good-looking, charming, funny, stable career, and intelligent enough to figure out a nation-wide plot months before any other character in the series, Maes would be a catch for any girl. And on top of that, he’s incredibly loyal, will help out anyone in need, and would desire nothing more than to be there for his family, I’d take him as mine any day. 😉

 

25. What was your favorite video game as a child?

I’ve never been a gamer, now or when I was a child, however, there have been a couple that I have enjoyed playing, including PS1 Tekkan and X-Men Mutant Academy 2.

 

26. Most embarrassing moment?

When I was very young, I was playing at a play center that my dad took me too. I was done on the slides and went to go find him. I saw a man talking to another guy that I mistook for my father, and ran up to him and hugged his leg yelling his name. Yet, the man looked down at me, and it wasn’t my dad. I was so shocked and embarrassed, I ran off, though I almost went into tears a few moments later thinking I had lost my dad somewhere and I didn’t know what to do. But thankfully, he found me a few minutes later. I’ve never forgotten that moment, even though it has to have been more than twenty years now.

 

27. Can you drive or own a car?

I am rather proud of the fact that I can drive, as it took me a while to learn. I however, as of yet do not have my own car, though I pretty much have free reign of my mother’s.

 

28. Are you mature?

I like to think so.

 

29. What year were you born?

I was born the year of the dragon, in 1988.

 

30. Do you prefer cats or dogs?

I’ve never had either, but I actually would enjoy both. I would one day like to get one of each as a pet.

 

31. Describe yourself physically.

Well, let’s see. I’m tall for a girl at 5’10. I’m not slender, but I’m not fat either. I have a full figure. My skin in the color of cappuccino, and I have mid-length brown hair and brown eyes.

 

32. What would you name your first child?

If a girl, my first picks for names are either Artesia or Aurelia. I loved both of those names, they are so beautiful and I like the meanings of them. For a boy, my first picks are Halcyon or Gabriel.

 

33. What is the worst injury you’ve ever had?

When I was in the 8th grade, I was watching The Terminator in the den of my house and as I was walking in, I stubbed my toes hard on the leg of a hassock that was there, the pain was horrible, but I thought nothing of it since I’d stubbed my toe before. Unfortunately for me, I was clumsy that day and then latter stubbed it again upstairs in my bedroom. It hurt for weeks and finally I went to the doctor and found out through x-ray that I had broken both my second and third toes and they hadn’t healed at all in all those weeks. I was a dancer at the time and that had exacerbated the situation. I had my toes wrapped and had to stay off my foot for a while while they healed. Even today, cold weather will actually make the bones in my toes ache.

 

34. What is your worst habit?

That has to be my habit of procrastination. I constantly have a lack of motivation to get things done and will always think of something else to do instead. I’m trying to get better, but it’s a hard battle.

 

35. Do you drink or smoke?

I don’t smoke, never having a desire to. Plus a childhood bout with pneumonia and a later onset of asthma would never let me anyway. I don’t drink really. I have tried some things here and there, but for the most part no, not even socially.

 

36. Do you have a tattoo?

No, I can’t even stand immunization needles, I can’t even fathom doing that. Plus, in my opinion, tattoos are more trouble than they’re worth.

 

37. Are you a morning person or a night person?

I’m more of a night person, though I can get up early when I need too. However, it’s rare that I go to bed before midnight or later.

 

38. Have you ever slept past midday?

Of course, especially if I’ve been up all night writing papers or reading a good novel. Also of course when I’m sick.

 

39. Do you regret anything?

Of course, I’m human and I’ve made some bad choices and didn’t have things turn out the way I wanted them to in my life, but in the end, I’m happy with my life and what it can be going forward.

 

40. Can you count the number of friends on one hand?

I have a few acquaintances and associates, but if you mean actually friends, I don’t have that many. I have one best friend, and a couple of distant ones, and I consider my brother, mother, dad, and cousin are as close as friends as well.

 

41. Do you wear glasses?

Yes, it’s practically genetic. Everyone in my family wears glasses except a couple of the guys who married into the family.

 

42. Are you a picky eater?

Nope, I love trying new things all the time. As long as the food isn’t celery, black licorice, or knowingly have any sort of insect or arachnid in it, I’ll eat pretty much anything.

 

43. Would you die for someone?

Yes, my faith or my family, without question.

 

44. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

I would like to be able to manipulate space, time, and reality. I could have more hours to get what I want to get done in a day, I can go anywhere I want, and change anything to fit my liking. Would it be a little selfish? Yeah, but hey, it’s my superpower. 😀

 

45. Do you believe in the supernatural?

If you mean, do I believe in a world beyond our own? Yes, I do. I have not been shy about my status as a Christian, and my faith is pretty important to me. So, yes, of course I believe in the things of the Spirit.

 

46. Would you rather be rich or famous?

Rich, I have no need for fame being a rather private person anyway. However, I can always use money.

 

47. Have you ever committed a crime?

Well, I unfortunately am not perfect. I have jaywalked before, ran a couple of stop signs and red lights on accident, and I do go over the speed limit often. But other than that? No, not really.

 

48. Pirates or Ninjas? Ghost or time traveler?

Ninjas. Time traveler.

 

49. Does someone have a crush on you?

Not that I know of at the moment.

 

50. Are you in a relationship?

Nope, I’ve never been in a relationship, though when the right time and man comes, I’ll be welcome to the idea.

 

Well, that will be that. Whoo! That was a lot to get through. So many questions, and only a few of them easy. I had to actually cheat diversify, when it came to those “favorite” questions. However, I had fun, and I know you guys will have fun in the comments as well. If you have anything to say, I won’t strike you down with phoenix flame, but I reserve the right to change my mind. 😛