User:JapaneseOPfan

Hello, Hello; this is a Japanese person living in the U.S.

One Piece is sooo great!(pure OP fan) and so is this wiki. I'm happy to go around making edits on the information, as well as translating and putting on SBSs from the books I get sent from my family member who is in Japan.

People that go to my school just don't understand how great this manga/anime is, and usually go for things like naruto, bleach, fruits basket, shugo chara... BUT I GO WITH ONE PIECE. one piece forever!

More about me
Ok, well I suppose there's no reason hide who I am, so here I go. My real name is Yuka Kubota, I just didn't mention since I don't really like it. (oh wow) I'm a teen and I say this since I don't feel like editing this each birthday (12/11). I was born in NYC but I live in Baltimore MD U.S.A. now, and I visit Japan each year in general. I play the violin (like seriously, not just for fun) and I am basically a tomboy who prefers non-feminine things. I certainly love OP, but other mangas I like in 2nd place are Detective Conan, Yotsuba&,Ouran High School Host Club, and Terumae Romaeh. I like to sleep and surf the net. Oh, and I represent a cat. Or so people say.

Favorite Stuff
Ok now for favorites. hmm lets see...

Fav. OP opening: Share the World Fav. Shichibukai: Hancock Fav. OP filler: G-8 arc Fav. OP Canon Arc: Thriller Bark Fav. Supernova: Law/ Bonney Fav. Marine: Coby

Other cool stuff and so on forever.
 * Pandaman
 * Sogeking
 * Lasers/Beams
 * Thousand Sunny
 * Devil Fruits
 * Zombies
 * Flying fish

What I do on the Wiki
I tend to correct the few spelling/grammar errors I find, and I started writing the SBS pages after everyone stopped doing so.. I also like to look at the blogs and look at people's profiles and stuff (which is what gave me the idea to make mine so long). Also, I look for errors as a fluent-in-both-Japanese-and-English-person, (what kinda person is that..) and just look at the information on the wiki for fun as well. I'm not the type of person that puts pictures on the web, so I'll let you all do that especially for the newest SBSs. Sometimes I may be in a rush and not spot my own errors, so I count on others for that as well.

As of now.... I am trying to make the wiki better by working on the stub articles, especially the summaryless chapter articles. I have decided to officialy call the project LETCA ( L et's E xpand T he C hapter A rticles). Other users and admins are helping me with the project, but it'll probably take a while before it is completed.

I also am hoping to make lots of friends that understand OP on this site!!

Life in the wiki
Ugh yeah, since I've came in here, I feel like some grain of sand in the desert, man! But I come here anyways to spend my time while waiting for the next chapter/episodes in the series. Yeah, I had trouble thinking of a username as I recall, and I just randomly decided to make it what it is now. My personality is basically super childish, and I go like "YESS someone payed attention to my blog post!!!" or "Darn it someone already edited this part... I WANTED TO DO IT!!!" all the time. I do not have problems. I think. When I first came to this wiki as a "wikia contributor", I just stared and said, "woahh proffesional looking websites...." but now I know it is just composed of people around my age. (Hurrah, Hurrah) I also feel real happy looking at the mythbusters page which informs me that people know what is right and wrong. haha.

Manga History
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Introduced to the Manga/Anime World
People have different reasons in how they found out about OP or got into manga/anime. So I will give you all my manga history. Ok. So, it started out when I was 8 or so, and my dad introduced me to a manga/anime that everyone knows in Japan regardless if they know much about manga or not (but not known much in other countries like the U.S.), Doraemon. I kind of took a liking to it as a child who never knew what manga was, and started having my dad buy 2 volumes or so each week, and watched episodes on my dad's PC. But when youtube started to erase the videos people were uploading, I lost intrest in Doraemon little by little. Before I pretty much graduated the series, my dad recommended other series written by the same author, and he got those books for me as well. I'll explain right here, but MY FAMILY IS NOT RICH though I make it sound like it. Dad only got these things for me since he lived and worked in NYC while we lived in MD, and the books were basically souveniers from him when he came back in the weekends. As a child, I also loved transformation animes and watched Pretty Cure and Sailor Moon very often, though they don't interest me any more.

Becoming a fan
After awhile, when I went on into middle school, we were just browsing youtube, and my dad thought of Detective Conan, another famous anime. I didn't really see anything special about it at first, but I grew attached to it as I watched a few episodes, and became a superfan of it later on. I got the books from my dad as usuall, but when my dad went to work/live at Japan, he would rarley see us (like twice a year or so) and so I decided to save up allowance and buy the rest of the volumes myself. After I watched/read what is currently out, I started getting bored again, and started borrowing manga from my very own school library, and when my dad came back for once, he read the books I checked out and took a liking to Yotsuba&, and later on Azumanga Daioh by the same author. When I read the Yotsuba& series in Japanese, I also took a liking to Yotsuba& and have all the current volumes, though I went on to look for other series as well when I heard it was never going to be animated.

Shoujo Boom
Somewhere around this point, my mom dug out some of her own old manga books from childhood and I read some old books, as well as when my mom took a liking to Piano no Mori and Nodame Cantabile for she is also a musician, but I never found any of them too interesting. as I grew older, my class became more and more larger as well as full of manga fans. I befriended some of these fans and read lots of shojo series at this point, since they all checked out so many at once from the library and lended me some. I also bought serilization magazines when I visited Japan, and the manga variety I know went very high up, though none really grabbed my intrest. I became more familiar with the internet, and watched animes of some of the series I heard were very popular, such as Shugo Chara and Gakuen Alice, but I didn't turn into fans of them.

The Saga of "Popular Shonen Manga Investigation"
After another while, I started becoming a major tomboy, mostly due to influence of my very first actuall friend, (yeah, I used to have friendship problems back then), and started hanging around mostly guys since I started to hate girls gossip and all. After a while, I learned that they also are manga fans, and since I was bored anyway, I decided to check out the "3 popular shonen" which consist of Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece. (finally) Now that I think back, I have no idea where I got One Piece from, since there are no actuall fans of it in my school. So anyway, I first watched Naruto, of course, which was the top Shounen Manga in terms of popularity in school and anime sites. (I didn't know One Piece was so popular in Japan back then.) After I read up to the lastest chapters, I thought to myself that it was worth watching/reading for about and year, and I took an interest on ninjas, but not enough to make me buy the volumes. I looked at internet rankings on Mangareader and Animefreak, as well as popularity in school, and came to the conclusion that Bleach is the 2nd most popular, and if Naruto was on this level, I should save 2nd place for last and watch One Piece before, expecting that One Piece isn't much of a great story from the rumors I heard and the fact that it is 3rd place in the U.S. I watched. And I was like, THIS IS IT!!! haha, I even wished I could erase my memory and re-watch the entire thing. After I ended up getting all the volumes, I went on to Bleach, still heart beating in exitement from One Piece, expecting it to be a blast judging from the fact that it is 2nd place. Well, I was wrong. Now I regret that I should of looked it up further to find that One Piece is NO.1, Naruto is 2nd, and Bleach is 3rd in Japan, and saved One Piece for last so that more chapters would be out by the time I got there. I loved OP so much that the impact on Bleach felt really low to me, and I stopped watching after ep 178 or so. Funny how americans usually think Naruto,Bleach, One Piece like the U.S. anime/manga sites say, and Japanese think One Piece, Naruto, Bleach like the internet says regardless where they live. (points to self) Maybe it's 'cause of the Dubbs. Since non-japanese who love OP always watch the subs. Dunno.

Sizzling back down
After getting the electric shock from One Piece, I was sad for awhile to the fact that I watched "the 3 popular manga" already (though I quit Bleach in the middle...) and took like half a year or so re-watching One Piece episodes and desprately looking for TV Specials and Mugiwara Theater stories. I saved the movies and watched them in 2DAYS after I couldn't hold myself anymore. I regret that. I also took my time looking for easter eggs in the storyline, finding at leat 3 in each volume/episode, as well as looking for errors and etc., managing to save up to 10 chapters (no looking at new chapters for weeks, including the "no one piece next week" things). I was sooo glad I started watching the series late enough to somehow avoid the 4 week break before the timeskip. Yeah, it was amazing how the lastest chapter out when I came to a stop was the 1st episode after the time skip. Well anyhow, I decided to look for other stories while waiting and looked at Death Note, Fairy Tale, Inuyasha, etc. but quit all of them in the middle for the OP impact was way too big on me. (lol) I liked The World Only God Knows as well, but season 2 in the anime is yet to come out, so I burned out on that one pretty quickly.Other interesting shows were ''Shinryaku! Ika Musume'' etc. but they are all very new series and have like only 10 episodes out or so. Someone uged me to watch dirty anime at one point and out of sheer boredome, I watched a few episodes, but it freaked me out and I stopped that as well. I am a non-adult girl after all. When my dad came to our house for once in a long while, he introduced me to a new series called Terumaeh Romae and laughed the heck out of myself at that one. I liked it alot. Hey, seems like I enjoy comedy for the most. He also brought the lastest Yotsuba& volume and I laughed until I couldn't breath at that as well.

Finally
Finally, I decided to make an account on this wikia after mind-debating myself, for I know no one in person that gets how interesting OP is, and I just wanted people to talk with about it, as well as share the information I know to the world. As of now, I am not searching for any new manga or thinking of resuming on the animes I quit.
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