Name:
Mark Engels
Age:
31 (which after looking around at the other profiles may make me the Official Old Fart here.)
Sex:
Male
Location:
Northwestern Indiana, USA
Personality:
ENFJ (for those of you familiar with Briggs-Meyers.)
Hobbies and interests: Anime, manga, writing, locomotive repair
Favorate non-anime Movie(s):
Emperor of the North Pole (it has a steam engine in it much like the one I used to fire)
Anime you've seen:
Aw geez, this might take awhile...
Robotech (let's give credit where it's due...this is the series that I RAN home from school every day to watch! And it was a slippery slope from there.)
El Hazard (all of it)
Princess Nine
Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
Evangelion
Battle Angel Alita
Gunsmith Cats
801st Airbats
Key the Metal Idol
Bubble Gum Crisis
Oh My Goddess
Inu Yasha
Ranma 1/2
Yu Yu Hakusho
Outlaw Star
Cowboy Bebop
Child's Toy (Kodocha no Omocha)
Tench Muyo
Manga I've read:
El Hazard
Evangelion
Battle Angel Alita
Aqua Knights
Ashen Victor
Gunsmith Cats
Oh My Goddess
Inu Yasha
Ranma 1/2
Cowboy Bebop
Sailor Moon
Kodocha
Video Girl Ai
Utena
Fushigi Yugi
Maison Ikkoku
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Outlanders
Drakuun
Caravan Kidd
Love Hina
Religion:
No comment.
How did you find El-Hazard online?:
I was surfing at Jason Bertovich's excellent El Hazard site (
http://www.geocities.com/MakotosMWO/) and followed the link here. I'm glad to see there are still El Hazard fans around! If you care to meet some others, please visit EH Yahoo! group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/el-hazard/Misc:
Married to a lovely woman who has come to enjoy anime with me. Live with two 90 lb. dogs out in the flatlands of Indiana (just where a a boy from a small farming town in Michigan likes it.) While I have been an anime fan for many years (as you can see from my age!) I have been a train buff longer. After completing my electrical engineering coursework at a school in Michigan back in 1993, I worked doing wiring and programming for welding robots in auto plants. I rode the high-tech wave in Minneapolis as a test systems designer for medical devices and avionics systems for last seven years until it all came crashing down this year. After having worked part-time as a semi driver, backhoe operator, freight train conductor, and locomotive mechanic, I decided to work for the railroad full time. I now work for CSX Transportation on a signal construction gang covering territory between Chicago and Louisville, Kentucky. We're the guys out putting up those gates and flashers up along the highway in the middle of winter. Needless to say I've become familiar with Carhartts after doing office work for so long. Brrr!
I have almost completed a monster El Hazard fanfic with the help of my good friend and fellow fictwriter Ken Wolfe. It's my first El Hazard work, but he has been quite proliferate over the years. I highly suggest you give his work a once-over, especially if you believe (like me) the growing relationship betweem Makoto and Ifurita being central to the appeal of the series.
You can read Ken's previous EH work here...
http://www.mts.net/~kenwolfe/fanfic.htmlNice to meet you all and hope you enjoy the work.
--me
Mark Engels