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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