First of all the name Shinji Suzuki is a name my Japanese friends gave me at my first semester at Calvary Chapel Bible College. I have been a Christian for 14 years and 8 months (as of 99-2). I am currently 21 years old. I accepted the Lord as my Lord and personal Savior at age 6 when I was visiting my mom on the weekend during the summer. I asked her about it, and she prayed with me, and the rest is history.

Two years ago I started getting into Japanese Anime and Manga. I had for very many years collected American comics, and the reason I stopped collecting those was the amount of gratuitous sex and graphic violence. Also the price of a late coming18 page comic book, which was full of advertisements was getting out of hand. It was I think somewhere around $3.00 by the time I decided to stop. It was a while, about two years again that I got into Manga and anime, due to my dear friend and at the time classmate, while I was learning Japanese. She also draws and writes the comic story Blue Monday.

My first real interest with Manga and Anime was with Sailor Moon, and then moved on to others like Ranma 1/2, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tenchi Muyo, Magic Knight Rayearth, and some others. Currently I am not collecting one series in particular. I had collected the first seven of Sailor Moon manga, and also the first 16 of Ranma 1/2. So, I'm taking a break and looking at some other titles that look interesting.

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