I wanted a site on Manga, Anime, Manwha, Manhwa, and to be able to stretch it as I saw fit. The meaning for all three (minus Anime) means Inspite of Oneself picture.. or Involuntary Art. Of course, Involuntary Art I stretched in a few places here and there, but the main focus is on the Asian Graphic Novels.
Actually, no. The range and target for manga, anime, manhwa, manwha can be anywhere from 5 to 40. There are some involuntary art that a 40 year old would dislike, and stuff that a 5 year old shouldn't be exposed to. It ranges.
1. I first came with the idea for the site in general when I first visited AQ and decided that a hypothetical website would be good in actuality. That was in May of 1998. The site really started and was typed up from scratch in Early June 1999.
2. It was technically born on June 30 of 2000. However, it's gone through several incarnations and reincarnations.
3. First it was on free servers as "Hitsuji's site", but it got too big to host on the servers and I hated the ads.
4. Then I bought udi-mangaanime.com, but I disliked the name, so it got renamed and moved as Animanga Palace.com
5. I themed Animanga Palace and got it going.. and was about to do an overhaul when...
6. Animanga Palace was hijacked by Network Solutions. They effectively froze the site and wouldn't let me change to another registrar, despite all my efforts for 3+ months, I couldn't get them to transfer it over. --;; (I would sue them if it wasn't for the fact that I'm not rich..)
7. At that time, I'd started Takeuchi-naoko.com. All the Sailormoon things transfered over to that site.
8. Then I bought Involuntary Art with a new vision of expaanding into a field that no one else had tried to do before. A lot of the smaller things has gone into this site.
9. Involuntary Art itself was born in May of 2002. (You do the math)
10. Overall this site has been through a lot of abuse and reorganization. (Including servers, sellouts, pain.. etc)
Actually, I like the thrill of creating characters.. I did say I was a writer, right? Well I am now. I thought it was a creative way to deal with FAQ, a way to set up an interactive story with the users. Also a way for people to remember this place. ^_^ If you try to copy it, or any of the characters, you know I'll have an envelope in my hand with dates of character creation.
Honestly? Umm.. just me. OK.. 1 person and her snake. Some contributions by friends, etc. where necessary, but I do the leg work. ^_^ Of course there is Pandora, who is certainly real. (I have pictures to prove it!)
Honestly, I think it is. But, I wouldn't recommend everyone do it. ^_^ People who like to argue for the thrill of arguing, and to try to prevent flames can do it. But mostly ignoring is the right thing to do. You really should know what you are doing before answering flames.
On the off-chance that I might educate the flamer and get them to see what they are saying, and maybe learn something about the subject, I often like to answer. Maybe I can help them get over their difficulties in speech, arguments, and insecurities. They need our love and attention.
The only time I don't answer is when the flamer is self-involved with themselves and won't admit that they are wrong (ever, and get more insulted when you indicate that they might be wrong.) Those go under hopeless cases.
It's My Korean name (not my "real name"). Technically it would be rude to call me "Mi", but I couldn't pass up the pun. My full given name is Yoon Mi (also Spelled Yun Mi). *shrugs* But most call me Hitsuji (Kinno Hitsuji) or Ud anyhow.