Meet Shinju-chan
NAME: Megan 'Shinju-chan' Seekings
Hi, my name is Shinju Tetsuya, and I am the chief webmistress here at DBHC. I thought my daughter already covered so much of me in hers regarding the things that I do and have done so maybe I should just redirect you there?......*lol* just kidding. I'm sure I can come up with a few things I can say.
From 1991 until I retired it in 2002, I was the active president & founder of the "Plots-n-Tombstones" Mark Callaway Fanclub-Organization", a WWE World Entertainment platform serving fans globally via internet and original postal mail order.
I believe Jewel said this well and I liked how she wrote it so I'll repeat it --the one thing I'd like to believe was evident all over PNT's website and the one thing I'd like to be known for, is my variety of original artwork. I am a arts major and I've studied and tried just about every known area of it I can think of: Anime, Cartooning, Ancient worlds, Middle Ages and the old Dutch masters, as well as the religious. I'm very detailed when it comes to each subject. I've always tried to make absolute certain that the things I create not only look like what's intended, but equally that the traditions of each remain intact providing the "feel".
For instance, since this site features a lot of Manga and Anime formats, I felt it was important, in the beginning to study the way in which it was done and presented it from the Japanese point of view...the styles, the language, etc. These are more than important. In the religious pieces I've done, I studied over the images of 1,000+ year old frescos and wall paintings for hours. In total, this equally provides the respect to each culture --past and present. If you are truly serious about this subject and/or that you are drawing anime/magna yourself, you'll realize that it's more than achieving just a likeness. It's a tradition and traditions ought not to be only half-understood. Anime is NOT fashion statement.
Gee, some things about me. I've been drawing since I was about 3-4. To be honest, I can't really think of a time when I WASN'T drawing or doodling something. I enjoyed Smurfs, I can actually remember the Pac-man cartoon! I got my first taste of Japanese Anime w/ Voltron in the early 1980's and other Animes on a yet-young "Nickelodeon" such as "The little Prince". Another show which was actually a very HUGE part of my youth was the Original Transformers show to which resulted in countless fan arts and fictions from ages 9 through 15. (I learned to really draw from that show) Much of my TF related features have been hosted at Seibertron.com -- The largest most popular TF website.
From there it extended to a love for video game RPG's like: Final Fantasy and DragonWarrior.
Via our group, "Vicious Visions Inc., I was the creator/illustrator for a doujinshi manga called, Dragonball Hob-nudian Chapters (Or Dragonball HC) since 1998 working design, illustrations, & layout. While the series has since been retired, and while I have worked various other independant titles, DBHC was truly my largest undertaking -- aside from being a period of some fantastic movements for me within the field.
Fan-produced comics of this type (weather DB or not) are incredibly popular in Japan and many feature the same professional quality of any other book that you'd find in any book store. I always felt fan art, as a whole, is the single most greatest symbol and testament of a individual's dedication and honor of another. You HAVE to love the creator to be moved to do such things. Because of that I not only illustrate and produce doujinshi, but I support fan arts of any kind deeply.
Today I work in technical design, illustration, & layout for independant RPG formats, children's magazines, newspaper articles, and various websites aside from the large volume of art I host at Seibertron.com. With Vicious Visions, I also still work in comics.
BIRTHDATE: February 27th 1975
GREEK ZODIAC: Pisces
CHINESE ZODIAC: Year of the Rabbit
FAVORITE CARTOONS: Transformers (the original), DB/DBZ, and I actually enjoy Spongebob.
FAVORITE CHARACTERS: Galvatron/Megatron, Cyclonus, Starscream, Shockwave, Rumble, as well as Skywarp & Thundercracker (I enjoy the seekers in general) from G1 Transformers., Piccolo and Young Gohan from DB., Sportacus and the gang at Lazytown.
SECRET TALENT: "I don't think anything I do is a secret anymore..*lol* ... however I do (what people tell me is) a right on impression of Roger C. Carmel as Cyclonus; aside from several other voices.