The author (Panikune)

Birthday: September 5th
Family: Mom, dad, 2 brothers, 5 sisters (Big family, I know...). I' m the 7th one.
Country: United States, Minnesota
Favorite foods: Sushi, spring rolls, flan, rice pudding
Favorite movies or book: Lion King, Spiderman, Winter Sonata, The Snow Queen
Favorite song: Tears by X-Japan
Favorite games: Mariokart (on any console), Final Fantasy (mostly all of em),
Loco Roco(Kawaii!), Naruto (my hands and wrists hurt so much when on the wii!)
Favorite manga or anime:
Fushigi Yugi, Escaflowne, Rurouni Kenshin, One Piece, Naruto, Nodame Cantabile, bokura Ga Ita,
Land of the Blindfolded, Bleach, Fullmetal alchemist, Ranma 1/2, Fruit basket, Hana Kimi, Lovely complex, Code Geass...
Music I like: 
Kobukuro is my favorite Jpop group artist. All their songs are beautiful (Tsubomi is my favorite). Ayu, Utada Hikaru, Aqua timez, Asian KungFu Generation, Yui, Brilliant Green, Ellegarden. I also listen to Korean songs mostly from dramas. American songs are great, I mostly go with the lyrics. If I like the lyrics, then it doesn' t really matter who sings it.
My dreams:
Being a comic author and have people buying my comics at the bookstore.
Well, everyone who does comics pretty much want that (and some succeeded,
I' m glad for them). To know that people are reading things I write and draw, it' s very precious to me. It' s a wonderful feeling.
My small dreams are: To build a animated pot city like the ones people put on display at
Christmas time, have a big telescope and watch the stars every night, visit Japan, the country that
gave birth to my passion for art! (I' d like to see Shibuya streets, the Tokyo tower, the big blue aquarium that extend to even the ceiling, I don' t know its name but it' s sooo pretty!). 
More to the list would be to See The statue of Liberty in New York, And go up the Eiffel Tower in Paris!

A little history about me:
I lived in France for 15 years. I still speak French fluently, mostly because I talk french to my sisters
all the time. We mix english and French all the time when speaking to each other.

I' ve been drawing eversince I was 5,  and never stopped.
As watching lots of animes, my drawings would shift from one style to another (biggest influence
would be Ranma1/2 and CLAMP at different time), but I was finally able to find my own style. It took me years. The hardest for me was to draw male characters. Everytime I had to draw one, I was stressed out, and I spent 5x the amount of time I did on female characters. That was difficult. But drawing
lots of illustrations about couples helped me a lot. I' m so glad I have no problem now!
My parents never supported me drawing as I was growing up, they used to say that it wasn' t important and that it doesn' t help me in life. Their thinking changed a lot since then (for the better of course).

I moved to the USA in 1997, and am currently still living there.  I want to go back to visit France again. I love the bakeries there. Bread is sooo good!
I' m also crazy about french flan! I miss it! I can' t believe I lived in France near Paris and never went up the Eiffel Tower! I gotta do that too! And visit Paris properly. (I' ve been there countless times but took it for granted... how I regret it now...)