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Name
ElizabethBirthday
08/16/90Online Handles
Rizu, Rizuchan, RizutanWhy Rizuchan?
It was a name one of my friends gave me way back in middle school from my given name, Elizabeth, and it just sort of stuck somehow over the years. -chan is a suffix in Japanese used for girl's and children's names and nicknames. -tan is the same as -chan, but in baby talk. I only use -tan on youtube, though.Hobbies
Translating of course, than theres reading, drawing, and flute playing, video editing... it doesn't sound like much, but it all keeps me quite busy.Favorite Anime
It had to be answered eventually. Let's see... I'm really into Death Note and Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei at the moment, but I'm a fan of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Evangelion, Azumanga Daioh, School Rumble, Ouran Host Club... would be my favorites. I have a lot of guilty pleasures on both the shounen and shoujo side though, like Peach Girl and Zoids. And Digimon. I love old school Digimon.Contact?
If for whatever reason you really want to speak to me, here you go.
Email: ballad.hunter(at)gmail.com
Aim: Dirnt is Love
MSN: barrad_hunter@hotmail.com
My livejournal.
And of course, there's always the guestbook if you just have a quick comment or two. ^-^Brief Site History
In the summer of '07 I decided to start a subtitling project to further my Japanese skills and learn some video editing skills at the same time. Originally I subtitled Naruto openings and endings, but seeing as how that series was already subtitled to death, and I knew most of the translations by heart so it wasn't helpful. I wanted a series that would have a lot of openings and endings that hadn't been translated by others, and I soon found that to be Pokemon. I hadn't watched the show much since the Johto days, but the music was fun and simple enough to be easy to translate. I uploaded a few videos to youtube, and they became so popular I found myself translating and subtitling all of them by the end of the summer!I translated a few songs outside of Pokemon for my own use as well, mostly School Rumble songs. One day I was on animelyrics.com and wondered if I was good enough to pass their test to be allowed to submit lyrics. To my surprise, I found I actually could and passed. Saddened by the lack of School Rumble lyrics on the web, I romanized and translated a good deal of them (Though I'm still not done with all the insert songs...) Around this time I had started school up again and was taking a Web Site Design course. I'd made websites before and was pretty familiar with basic coding, but I learned a lot of raw HTML and devised another challenge for myself... to create a site using nothing but notepad...And here it is!
More truthfully, I had planned to create a website for lyrics as my works grew. And the decision to make it entirely in Notepad stemmed more from the fact I have no web design software on my laptop and I wanted to be able to work on it from there. Nonetheless, this site is coded completely by hand. This way, anything that screws up is my fault and not the fault of software that won't do what I want. ^-^I'm such a future programmer.