RF: Not at the moment. Am I looking? Not particularly, I have little interest in women. Never have for some reason. I'm often just far too busy doing other worthwhile activities. Are women important to me? Sure they are. Everyone needs a little company now and again. It's just that they're not highest priority at the moment. I'm like Tenchi or Ranma just minus all the women who want me badly (are there any out there?).

RF: Can we just clone me and change all the Y chromosomes to X chromosomes? (Here's a question to ponder: if you had sex with your clone female self, would it be incest or masturbation? Something to think about when you're very bored and the computer is broken.) A love for anime is an absolute must, as I know that trying to change someone after you meet them only leads to problems. Hence an anime otaku like myself will be much easier to get along with than someone who hates anime and that I'll need to change to find interest in my otakuism. I'm a difficult guy at times, stubborn as a mule. Blame my former military career for that, but I'm not sure if I'm looking for a woman who is understanding of my gung-ho attitude or just as argumentative and aggressive in life as I am.

RF: To the extent that I can watch raw anime and have a pretty good idea of what's going on. I pick up on certain words and phrases, and I know somewhere in the back of my head I can translate it all, just the connection between the Japanese word and the English word isn't clicking. I probably could speak Japanese, just with no idea of what I was saying.

RF: Most people look at my long bishounen-like hair and my recently-grown goatee and flashy attire and believe that, "Wow, Ron's gone gay!" or "Wow, Ron's become some anti-culture artist or something!" Indeed, I could come off as either with my looks and normal dress, which are very bishounen (something I'm working towards) and flamboyant. I can dress normal, but why look like everyone else? I'm not an anime fan just to blend in, so I take advantage of that and wear bright clothing and many accessories like black wristbands and a necklace or chain that resembles something an anime character might have worn. That and the time I had my hair dyed blue certainly got some very strange comments, usually something like, "Dude, what did you do to your head?!"

RF: Perhaps being called a loser or a geek once or twice, but nothing I couldn't shake off and say, "Eh, what do they know?" I've never been beat up because I watch anime, but that's probably because I wasn't nearly stupid enough to let something that bad happen to me. But I doubt it would have gotten to that point anyway, the school I went to was very tolerant of different cultures simply because we had so many people attending.

RF: "Whoa, you DO look like an anime character!" was one I can remember a friend saying. "Hey junior, you look sharp" or "Look at my son, isn't he handsome?" are things my parents would say. I can't recall exact compliments, I suppose because nobody really knows why I would act/dress/talk like I do unless they're into anime themselves. I can only guess that those not into anime as much as I am would think I'm a freak and those at my level probably think it's pretty cool, and those above my level (are there any?) would think I'm not into it enough. I'm the type of guy who would go to an anime convention dressed as a female character just because I think it would be funny as hell. I even offered to go as Kaoru or Megumi from "Rurouni Kenshin" if everyone else would go as a "Kenshin" character. Apparently, not many of my friends are keen on going as "Kenshin" characters. Oh well, there's always next year to find a theme.