Hello everyone! My name is Kyle (as you might be able to tell from my username, heh) and I'm 18.
I'm not the biggest otaku around really; I've just recently have started to realize and accept my love for anime and manga. It probably started the same way a lot of children from the 90's found anime- the wondrous Toonami. I realize now that I was watching watered down and edited to the bone versions of the anime, but I was contempt with it at the time. My interest for anime wavered over the years after my days of watching Toonami ended, but now I have found myself at a point where I know I thoroughly enjoy it.
Nowadays I watch/read and have watched/read anime/manga such as Eureka Seven, Bleach, Reborn!, Death Note, Mysterious Girlfriend X, Kuroshitsuji and Hellsing.
My hobbies include writing, video games and building/using computers. The most important to me among these is writing. It has become a recent activity of mine, and quite a joyous one as well. It has got me though a lot of bad times, and it tends to be a good way for me to express my feeling, and I'm not so good at that kind of thing verbally.
Anyway, I better end this long winded introduction before it becomes mundane and monotonous. I hope to meet some cool people here, improve my "literacy" of anime/manga and become a stronger otaku in general.