Carlos Ross

Howdy. For a long time, I was Meticulous Figurehead (Editor-in-Chief) of this website. As such, I get to actually write things in first person tense once in a while.

I got involved in THEM originally through a chance meeting with several members in the Arizona State University Honors College, though I had actually already been reading the Anime Reviews site for quite some time. Once I put two and two together ("You wrote this?!? Cool!") I basically took on a lot of titles, often watching them in Raph's dorm. After Raph left for medical school in 1999, I took over the site, and it's been under my stewardship ever since.

I've been watching anime for far longer, of course, starting with Mazinger Z and Voltron, and only finally realizing what "anime" was many years later with Sailor Moon and Grave of the Fireflies.

Between 2000 and 2008, I was in charge of this thing, all the while slowly working on my degree in (you guessed it) Japanese. I was involved in a few conventions here and there, mostly in Arizona. I was also an officer of THEM ASU for several years and also served as captain of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Academic Bowl team as well as the ASU College and Quiz Bowl teams (had to pay tuition somehow). I graduated in December of '08 and, like so many ASU grads before me, skipped town with all my belongings to a completely different life elsewhere.

I currently live in Orlando with my girlfriend Kimberly and our cat Kaji (yes, like the Evangelion character - there's a story behind that one); I'm currently a dispatcher at Disney's All-Star Movies Resort at Walt Disney World, and having a blast!

Everything else you need to know, you'll learn in due time. Ciao!

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Incidentally, the Figurehead Emeritus is possibly the only guy on Earth who has had relationships occur as a direct result of Marmalade Boy multiple times.

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I've got a Facebook, a LiveJournal, AND a Twitter feed, though you may have to do some digging to find them.

Cheers!

Status: [PERMANENT]