If you been following this site for a while, you may have noticed that someone new has made his first post. My name is HelghastKillzone and I’ll be the newest writing member of the Star Crossed Anime Blog. Before I go into the finer details, here is a little history on what anime means to me.
Just like any typical person growing up in the 90s, anime in my childhood consisted of rushing home on weekdays from elementary school to watch Sailormoon, Pokémon, Gundam Wing and whatever Fox Kids or YTV decided to throw in on Saturday mornings including the short-lived Escaflowne. Over the years, I picked up series here and there, from Hellsing to Evangelion to 5cm per Second but I never followed anything week to week until the Fall 2013 season. My actual blogging career started that year in the spring with MeepingAnime.com (now known as azureminds.com), ProjectOtaku.com (now defunct) and finally, SeaSlugAnime. I have covered such shows as Chaika, Captain Earth, Aldnoah.Zero, Zankyou no Terror, Psycho-Pass 2, Seraph of the End, Unlimited Blade Works and ERASED on an episodic basis as well as having written up on older shows, movies, seasonal preview and the low-hanging fruit of top ten lists.
My tastes tend to lend towards the more mature and darker end of anime but I’m not closed off to indulging myself in the more lighter, moeblob, ecchii side of this wonderful animated medium. I will admit that there are large gaps in my viewing experience like the staples of Cowboy Bebop, Stein;Gate and Ghost in the Shell. It’s on my to watch list but I have a hard enough time in keeping up the latest and greatest but I would still love to hear your suggestions on what I should watch next. If you trouble grasping on what I would enjoy, my online alias and accompanying display picture is a perfect example of what exactly you’d expect from me. HelghastKillzone is from the Sony’s FPS franchise of Killzone for which I love the gunplay, visuals and aesthetics but the story is something left to be desired. The display picture, though, isn’t from the video game but instead, taken from the movie of Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, which is one of the very few anime I have awarded 10/10. If you are still unsure what where I stand, I suppose writing up a top ten anime show article for myself would do the trick.
As for my personal life, I live in Vancouver, Canada in the North America unlike the my other European contributors on this site. I hold a political science degree with some other lesser diplomas and certificate to go along with it. I do find it a little sad and ironic that my best phase of writing came after I received my bachelor degree where it was all about analyzing perspectives and pumping out papers. As for my working life, I’m actually a serving member of the Canadian Armed Forces for the last eight years and is looking to further my career within governmental agencies In my spare time, I play extensively in this little-known MMOFPS game call Planetside 2 under the same name. If you have heard of this peculiar game then I suggest you hit up the Connery server for some sexy times.
For the spring season of 2016, I will be covering Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress. Unfortunately, due to a work-related trip, I won’t be able to do episode three piece until this Monday.
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Welcome aboard. It’s always nice to see more writers for the sites. I’m happy to say that we got quite a diversity as well, as Aidan from Ireland (Europe), you from Canada (America) and me being an Asian guy who lives in Australia, we got it well-covered haha.
Not sure what Aidan would think but I’d suggest you to take on one more series, or even better, one of the classic anime that you haven’t seen yet. You could catch up with all the classic you’ve missed and we could enjoy reading what your opinions are – it’s a win-win as far as I see.
Again, welcome to the sites and I would love for us to communicate more often, either by posting like this, shoutbox, email or whatever you see fit. Cheers
Kabaneri huh? Calling it now. Trainwreck of the season. Let’s see who turns out right.
Anyway Mario we can all get together on Skype as I find it’s the handy option but the bad thing about us being all over the world is the time zones. I say its fine if Helghast wants to cover One title. As we both know time is a precious commodity which is needed to play more video games.
Welcome, you may see me lurking from time to time, I usually fix the categories and do a video game review now and then. I’m a North American like you, frequently moving between LA and NYC, and I look forward to you helping out.
As a footnote, you can copy/paste your biographical information into your profile, just go to the top right icon in wordpress>editmyprofile>and then type in your biographical info at the bottom. Good luck.
Nice to see fresh blood here, hopefully this blog can be as active as it was back during psgels’s glory days
hello and welcome. Looking forward to your reviews
seeing that the header changed and he got an own user name, does that mean aidan got admin rights and there was a life sign by psgels?
Details are in the new Joker Game – 03 post. First paragraph.
But yeah, pretty much.