'Sup! I'm Leo, and I like TV Tropes. Like a lot. I'm a '90s kid (with all that that entails; feel free to make your own assumptions!) and my main preferences are anime and manga, Western animation, video games, and to a lesser extent superhero comics and fantasy novels. If you want to know more about me, check out the tropes that I think are particularly descriptive of me:
- Asian and Nerdy: Yup.
- Camp Straight: I once played a Dame in a Panto performance of Aladdin.
- Cunning Linguist: Heh heh.
- Fiery Lion: My favorite element and my favorite animal.
- Fire Is Red: My favorite element and my favorite color.
- The Gadfly: The basis of my existence.
- Genki Girl: Well, guy, but yeah.
- Hard Rock / Nu Metal: Generally the kind of music I listen to.
- Indonesia: My country of birth.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Don't know about kindhearted, but cats are certainly my favorite animals. Particularly the big ones.
- Islam: My faith (or the closest thing to it, anyway).
- Linguistics: What I studied in Real Life, and what I hope to get a PhD on someday. I specialize in cognitive linguistics, if you're curious. I extra-specialize in spatiotemporal conceptual metaphors across languages, if you even know what I'm talking about anymore (if you do, you might be my new best friend).
- Nerd Glasses: Yup again.
- Pen Name: Leo isn't my real name, but hopefully it'll be my pen name someday. It's my star sign, if you're curious.
- Plucky Comic Relief: What I tend to be to my friends.
- Wales: Where I got my undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from. Bangor, Gwynedd, to be more precise. Dwi'n siarad Cymraeg, tipyn bach.
Media I absolutely love and love talking to people about (not exhaustive):
Anime and Manga
- Digimon Adventure: My personal favorite anime, for nostalgia reasons. The reboot is shaping up to be equally great, though! Discounting nostalgia, I'd say Digimon Tamers is the best series in the franchise.
- One Piece: My favorite manga. I've never watched the anime except for One Piece Film: Strong World, because it's canon.
- Fate Zero: My other favorite anime, not counting nostalgia.
- Hayate the Combat Butler
- Eyeshield 21
- Fullmetal Alchemist: What I consider to be the most objectively well-written manga (or at least Shōnen manga) I've ever read.
- Death Note
- Detective Conan: A childhood classic.
- Doraemon: A childhood classic.
- The Law of Ueki
- Future Diary
- Superior: One of my favorite Shoujo manga.
- Fushigi Yuugi: My other favorite Shoujo manga.
- Attack on Titan: Mostly the first season of the anime.
- My Hero Academia
Comic Books
- Spider-Man: My favorite superhero of all time.
- Batman: Tied for second place with Daredevil.
- Daredevil: Tied for second place with Batman.
- The Punisher
- Green Arrow
Films - Animated
- Disney Animated Canon (in chronological order):
- Pinocchio
- Aladdin
- The Lion King
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Mulan
- Tarzan
- The Emperor's New Groove
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire. What got me into linguistics, by the way.
- Lilo & Stitch
- Treasure Planet
- Tangled. Way better than Frozen. Fight me.
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Zootopia
- Pixar:
- All four Toy Story films.
- A Bug's Life. The most underrated Pixar film.
- Finding Nemo
- The Incredibles and Incredibles 2
- Inside Out
- Laika:
- Studio Ghibli:
- Others:
Films - Live Action
- Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy
- Batman films:
- The entirety of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Favorites include:
- Star Wars: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Rogue One are my favorites.
- Jurassic Park. And yes, I enjoy all of the movies in the franchise.
- Deep Blue Sea. My favorite shark film, partly because of nostalgia.
- Arrival. It's my linguistics research as a movie, starring my favorite actress of all time! It was made for me.
- Anything non-DCEU with Jesse Eisenberg in it.
Video Games
- Pokémon: My favorite video game franchise overall. Gen III is my favorite.
- Kingdom Hearts
- Persona: 3 onwards.
- Legend of Mana: My favorite individual video game of all time.
- Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons: That's the Bokujō Monogatari series, if you were wondering.
- Crash Bandicoot
- Monster Rancher
- Dragon Age
- Gravity Rush and Gravity Rush 2
- Bully
- Soul Nomad & the World Eaters
- Monster Hunter
- Most Digimon games, especially the World and the Cyber Sleuth series.
Webcomics
- Gunnerkrigg Court
- Paranatural
- Cucumber Quest
- Sandra and Woo: The artist is Indonesian! Woo!
Western Animation
- Codename: Kids Next Door: My personal favorite Western animated series. The Big Damn Movie is in-Zero-credible.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: What I consider to be the most objectively well-written Western animated series I've ever watched. I have far less flattering opinions about its sequel.
- Gravity Falls
- Teen Titans. And yes, I also enjoy Teen Titans Go! quite a bit.
- Generator Rex. Better than Ben 10. Fight me. (But their crossover is amazing.)
- Pretty much the entire DC Animated Universe.
- Young Justice
- Western Animation/Gargoyles
- Kim Possible. The Big Damn Movie is fan-Drakken-tastic.
- Xiaolin Showdown. Never watched the sequel series.
- Danny Phantom
