User:AngelFire3423

This is my autobiography of a certain person named Matthew King who passed away January 21, 2013 or Jan 22 depending on what actually happens after I finish writing this. If you're interested in editing the Anime, Anime and manga fandom, Scanlation, Fansub, or Clamp (manga artists), please check the Life as a Wikipedian collapse for some source links.

About me
I'm kinda off and on editing, so the best way to make sure I get a message is probably to post on my userpage. Somehow, I believe that working on certain things, especially working on things like scanlation will somehow make the world a better place. I really enjoy copyediting, but I enjoy researching the most. I really want to make a decent seiyuu singer article, a decent anime music single article, and a decent discography article.

I plan to work alot more on:
 * Clamp (manga artists)
 * Fansub
 * Shinkyoku Sōkai Polyphonica
 * Maaya Sakamoto
 * Katawa Shoujo
 * Anime - I've already added stuff on the production side =]
 * Japanese School Girl - Perhaps the most powerful age group in all of Japan

So far, the articles I'm proud of contributing to are:
 * Kyou no Go no Ni cleanup, media sections
 * Anime and manga fandom‎ saving it from CSD -> DYK ^^, research, content
 * Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle So much content finally lead to GA, entire music section was also my doing
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Project article split, content across the first three anime articles, music
 * Shuffle! saved it back to GA and barnstar
 * Clamp (manga artists) picture, content, and cleanup
 * Scanlation research, content, organization

To be honest, my biggest regret when it comes to Wikipedia was being unable to change the scanlation and fanservice page into a proper article. I share the opinion brought up in Deb Aoki's 2010 panel on the subject that it's much like the music industry, instead of cracking down on piracy which will undoubtly hurt the industry more as it did with music, the internet need to be embraced in some shape or form. Props to the good people at Crunchyroll. By not creating a decent article out of those cites, I feel like people in industry and consumers alike are getting the wrong impression of what the situation is.

There were quite a number of sources I had on Clamp that were particularly hard to obtain that I have not yet been used for the Clamp article. One was the almost non-existant recording of the Top Runner series on Clamp that was recorded 07-24-2005. It makes me sad to not see that article as a Featured Article. I never got around to working on it again. For one, they derive alot of inspiration from Leiji Matsumoto (the star system is from him not Osamu Tezuka a mistake the research done by one of the Tsubasa fanbooks I had). The reception and critical acclaim needs some particular work.

Spreading the word
The four different "dashes", all of which can be found under the insert set found underneath the edit box. Well... pre-2010 there was a edit subsection of special characters with all of them.


 * Wikipedia uses what it names the logical quotation, which is essentially British punctuation with regards to quotes except using double quotes instead of single.
 * '—' is the em dash, which is used like a comma for parenthetical comments. Used without surrounding spaces.
 * '–' is the en dash, or just the dash, which is used for ranges. Two like 'a –– a' represents an em dash (note: you use spaces in this case)
 * '‒' is the figure dash, which you use in number exclusively as a seperator. Like in phone numbers. Use en-dashes to indicate a range of numbers.
 * '-' is the hyphen, which is not, used for compound modifiers, like "the high-speed car", not the speed car that's high. This is available on your keyboard.
 * '−' is the minus sign.

Sources to use list

 * Erica Friedman ANNCast OP. ANN forums on being the viewer base without being the market. SCANLATIONS YESsssssss more sources. Solution to Scanlation
 * Hatsune Miku - Ask John: Lynn Minmei an analogy for Miku's journey to success?
 * Mark Simmons for mecha
 * Brain Diving: So much good
 * Fansub - sub-culture view
 * Viz Media - Podcast interview with Jason Thompson
 * Anime - Key Animation
 * Review of book on the spread of anime
 * History of anime - Ask John: Are Male Characters getting weaker character trends
 * AskJohn: Were 90s the artistic peak of anime? lots of good overall trend stuff
 * AskJohn: Which Anime have too convoluted narratives? yay more commentary on the 90s
 * Manga - Paper on History and development
 * Origins
 * Influence
 * Anime and Manga Fandom - Becoming an artist, and artistic tutorials, doujinshi
 * ANN Editorial Fans not wanting anime to become mainstream
 * Fan representation in media
 * AskJohn: On Seiyuu Criticism Yus, japanese fan community commentary
 * AskJohn: How feature interpret anime on a reason to archive things
 * AskJohn: Otaku Pandering
 * AskJohn: Wanting more original anime More on otaku tastes
 * AskJohn: On watching vintage anime Details two kinds of fans and why they watch anime
 * AskJohn: Watching anime aimed younger audience Cartoons in the US only for children, anime isnt
 * Otaku no Video
 * Chicks on Anime
 * Reviewer/consumer community
 * Scanlation - ~52 minutes Licensing by country, popularity reason
 * ANNCast some notes on french and italian scanlation, other stuff too
 * On Going digital
 * A mention about illegal download laws in Japan
 * X_(manga) - might be useful for clamp too
 * Clamp (manga artists) - podcast so much good
 * MMF

Interviews:
 * With Minato (Ryuusei P)
 * Lots of interviews like with [Supercell]

Soundtrack Reviews:
 * SoundtrackCentral.com

Good Programming Speel
I still hold assembly in the highest regard. I feel that macros can allow assembly to do everything one can expect of any other language. Then a proper debugger and profiler, tools to aid collaboration, those are all a language needs to flourish. Assembly teaches memory management without extra baggage, a better understanding of parallelism, and CPU layout. What people should describe assembly as is too simple and without enough sophisticated tools that come with the IDE of other languages.

To become a good programmer, one has to understand the object orientated programming model in an effort to learn security and how to effectively collaborate with others; the extra flourish of stuff is nice but unnessecary. Then a programmer should learn functional programming because it teaches you how to think and solve problems at a much higher level without getting bogged down by the details as much.

Vocaloid
Vocaloid started out in 2000 as the pet project of a researcher with the backing of Yamaha unfortunately with an entirely English interface. Crypton released the Vocaloid 2 engine in 2007 this time with a localized Japanese interface for the Japanese version, featuring the main cast of divas whom we all know and love, including of course Hatsune Miku. The interface opened it up for the entire Supercell began their debut with its the truly iconic song "Melt", proceeding to release an entire album including three more songs served a huge task in forging the Vocaloid's place in the hearts of fans: "Koi wa Sensou", "Black Rock Shooter", and "World is Mine".

Vocaloids were simply a voice and a character with which anyone could add pour a personality into. Because of today's society's strong focus on lyrics and a spoken voice it provided the outlet through which composers by skill could channel their energies to create enchanting works of arts and a white slate character with which to perform. Vocaloid covers and composers began popping up all over Nico Nico Douga and this began fueling the Utattemita and Odottemita subcommunities. Several popular artists even managed to sign on to record labels like Supercell, Choucho and Nagi Yanagi (Gazelle) not to mention the large amounts of community concerts that Japan is so good at organizing where several big name Nico Nico Douga singers and artists come to perform. Danceroid from the Odottemita community made they're official debut in 2009. However the very first company sponsered concert was in 2009 at the Animelo Summer Live where in a great feat of animation and engineering, Vocaloids were projected on a mostly transparent screen featuring many of the composers themselves as performers. The same year Crypton also began releasing the first in a series of the rhythm games called "Project Diva: Hatsune Miku". Since then Crypton has been holding live concerts featuring continually better animted dancing vocaloids up on stage not only in Japan but in Singapore and California too.

This phenomenom is the very reason why I love the internet for all that it is and why I want to go into animation. The complete bottom-up production of songs that can result in bands performing amazing covers to singers joining record companies, to amazing displays of animation skill in music videos, to stories being nutured through song, to all finally maturing into company sponsered live concerts of amazing animation quality and becoming a cultural icon and potiential ambassador. It's really, quite beautiful. I'm glad I was able to witness Miku's 5th birthday, happy birthday.