I made this site in 2003. That seems like so long ago. I was living in Massachusetts, with nothing else better to do with my time. I had been role-playing online since 1996 or so, and a lot of that time I spent role-playing #18 in an long-running alternate universe game. To say the least, I've been a fan of her for over a decade. I suppose this makes me an old-head...

When I first got into Dragon Ball, I was buying bootleg fansub tapes from Galaxy Video on Chestnut street in Philadelphia and trading them with my friends in high school. The quality of these tapes was so terrible, sometimes it was impossible to even read the subtitles. At the same time, the International Channel on cable was airing the original Japanese episodes, without subtitles, and the English version of DBZ only went up to the middle of the Namek Saga. Reliable English translations were few, and fan-made misconceptions were rampant. Nowadays, the whole series is translated, digital fansubs are outrageously easy to acquire, and I can actually read and understand the original Japanese material.

My time spent role-playing #18 has since led me to a fascination with cyborgs so strong that I'm persuing a graduate degree concerned with cyborgs and how people craft their identities through technology and culture. Yes, I love the hell out of (post) cyberpunk anime like Ghost in the Shell and Ergo Proxy, among other genre-defining works of 1980s/1990s sci-fi.