Anime, Manga, Philosophy, Drawing, Role Playing (in its many forms), Listening to Music, Reading, Japanese stuff, Reading through Wikipedia articles

Battle Royale, Matrix (not the sequels), Beautiful Mind, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sword in the Stone (disney version), Ferngully, Lord of the Rings, Fight club, Saw, AMV hell, Appleseed, Cowboy Bebop, Advent Children, Alien, Gladiator, Serenity, films by Hayao Miyazaki, other good anime films, I also appreciate a good horror

Metal
Metallica, Megadeth, Manowar, Rammstein, Black Mages, Dragonforce, Kamelot, Queensrÿche, Judas Priest


Musicals
Rent, Wicked, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph, Miss Saigon


Rock
Adema, Creed, Jimmy Eat World, Hoobastank, Evanescence, My Chemical Romance, Panic! at the Disco, Adema, bôa, Incubus, Muse, Nickelback, Nightwish, The Used


Some Classical
Chopin, Holst, Beethoven, occasional others

Anime Soundtracks (mostly those by Yoko Kanno, but there's a few songs that I like from other series), also other stuff (NIN, Mindless self indulgence....)

Currently planning to read Reaper Man,

Favourite Series
Lord of the Rings, Discworld, Wheel of Time, Dragonlance, Darksword, Narnia, Dark Materials, Dan Brown Books, Shannara series

Going on the last few books that I have read
Beowulf,Angels and Demons, Silmarillion, Les Miserables, Nietzsche,

as well as comics; Teen Titans, Superman, The Darkness, and

Manga
Serial experiments lain, Haibane Renmei, Ayashi No Ceres, Berserk, Blade of the Immortal, Blame, Bleach, Chobits, Death Note, DNAngel, Elfen Lied, Escaflowne, Evangelion, Ghost in the shell, Gravitation, Hellsing, Love Hina, Loveless, NANA, Naruto, Perfect Girl Evolution Shuffle, Tsubasa Chronicle, Wish,

Bleach, Death Note, Hellsing, and Yoshitoshi ABe stuff are my favourite


I also like stuff by Poe and reading around the Cthulhu mythos

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My first cosplay I went for something fairly straightforward, Light from Death Note. For my next one at JapanEX I went as Bankai Ichigo, I'll probably be lazy and redo it with a better hollow mask for October. I would love to do Killy from BLAME one day but don't think I'd ever get round to it.

Easiest summary of me: Introspective thinker

Most people say I'm quiet, my supervisor says quiet and intelligent, people who know me a bit either don't really know me that much or think I'm weird. Very few people (read self +1) know me well at all as I tend to keep myself to myself.

Currently working in London, that will probably change to Cambridge in October when I start the second year of my PhD.

Though I can't resist my calling as a scientist there's plenty of subjects I find more directly enjoyable. I like philosophy, psychology, art, computers, drama (for the roleplay), some bits of history etc.