About Aorii
Gokigenyo~ Aorii desu~!
I’m the manager and writer of the Major Arcana blog. I blog because taking the time to analyze something helps me enjoy a series better. Thus, most posts I make will be reviews and analysis on my recommendations. At the same time, I’m also a casual blogger, so there will be shenanigans and rants mixed in here and there.
Recommendations and reflections that I post about include: current anime, shoujo manga, Nakige visual novels, BL/yuri, scifi/fantasy, etc. My goal is to support and promote any series isn’t well-known enough. I particularly love gamer parodies and all types of drama, be it romance, family, social, historical, political, or military.
Major Arcana? No I can’t actually read tarot cards to tell fortunes, but I do find them useful for classifying characters and events. Otherwise, it’s merely an art theme for the site. Read down for history of the name.
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About Me:
[Name]: Zanaikin, Aorii(-chan), China(-tan)
[Race]: Chinkanese (the most unoriginal race in the World)
[Class]: Tactician 2/Worldforger 3/Software Engineer 3
[Feats]: Versatile, Goal-Driven, Zealous, Reserved, Slow
[Skills]: World Forging (Scenario Design), Anime/Manga, Visual Novels, Game Design, World History, Skiing, Drawing, Running Outdoors, Swords Practice
[Admires]: Loyalty, Resolve, Compassion, Sincerity
[Dislikes]: Hypocrisy, Conceitedness, Close-minded Idiocy, Pressure
[Contacts]: zanaikin@live.com (MSN)
Proud but not confident, loud yet reserved, logic-oriented yet emotional, attention seeking yet crowd-shy. If anything, I’m a tsun— (*glare*, shut up, I don’t want to hear it)
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Favorites:
[Colors]: Sky Blue, Pink, Periwinkle Blue, White
[Anime/Manga]: See my MyAnimeList profile
[Artists]: Tanemura Arina (Mangaka), Ikeyamada Go (Mangaka), Moonknives (Artist)
[Games]: Star Ocean 3 (RPG), Tales of Vesperia (RPG), Supreme Commander (RTS), Valkyria Chronicles (TRPG), Total Annihilation (RTS)
[Music]: Kajiura Yuki (Composer), Sergei Rachmaninoff (Composer), Kuribayashi Minami (Singer), Mizuki Nana (Singer), Sakimoto Hitoshi (Composer), Orito Shinji (Composer)
I’m a very goal-oriented person who tries to get the most out of every moment, be it popping another item off my stack-of-todos or refining my personal abilities. As a result I tend to be too serious and analytical, working on that… also working on being honest with myself. I have a lazy bug and limited digilience just like most people, which keeps me from becoming anything remotely like a workaholic. My thought processing speed tends to be somewhat slow, mostly cause the thought-thread goes through far more analysis than normal before it hits ‘decision/recognition’, but it does annoyingly delay response times. My greatest foe is myself, as I’m an insatiable self-critic, although I wouldn’t trade my life for anyone else’s due to my sense of personal identity; I’d happily change a few traits though.
Other links: Mypersonalityinfo, Twitter
Why Major Arcana?
Citrus came up with it when we were brainstorming a group name for The Imperium Project development team, when it was still an OEL Visual Novel project, so Sajuuk took the hostname. By the time we decided to merge blogs, we figured that it was a good enough name and we already own the site, so why not?
Who is Your Avatar?
Rita Mordio from Tales of Vesperia, because I’ve never seen an anime/game character who reflects my own personality and thought-process so well. Henceforth she’s my online persona.
What does Aorii mean?
It doesn’t mean anything. It’s created from the names of two characters from my light novel fiction project. So is Zanaikin for that matter.
What are you doing posting so much on Sajuuk’s blog (since he’s the webmaster)?
I was one of his closest friends during high-school, I’m not confident enough to say I’m his best friend but our ties certainly survived long periods of time, including some turbulent periods, without degrading. I decided to create a joint blog with him because he enjoys doing webwork (I don’t), while I tend to analyze/critique things a lot and enjoys writing. I also does the artwork for this site.
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