Author has written 14 stories for Rurouni Kenshin, Fullmetal Alchemist, Tactics, Hikaru no Go, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Tales of Symphonia.

Penname: Hitokiri-san (and I mean MISS hitokiri, not Mr. , everyone)

Sex: See statement above

Age: 21

Favorite anime & manga: Rurouni Kenshin, Fullmetal Alchemist, Hikaru no Go, Deathnote, Black Cat, D. Gray-man, Gundam Seed, Ravages of Time, Tactics, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Code Geass, Okiku Furikabutte, Axis Powers Hetalia

As a side note, I've gotten myself a DeviantArt account, which is now home to various fanart I've drawn over the years. Feel free to visit it and leave comments!

http://shoha.deviantart.com

I am now a proud member of the Kill Quickedit Clan. To join, refer to Bakabokken's bio for more details. You may also refer to this website directly.

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Favourite characters/ Series Review:

Rurouni Kenshin (I don't want to hear anything about Samurai X, thank you):
Himura Kenshin (Kenshin is my "first love" in the world of anime, and still holds his place firmly)
Himura Battousai (I really can't decide who I love more, the hitokiri or the rurouni)
Yukishiro Tomoe
Hiko Seijuro
Saitou Hajime
Katsura Kogoro
Okita Souji

-Alright alright, I'll admit it. I'm obsessed with anything related to Bakumatsu. The Choshu clan is cool, the Shinsengumi rocks, and Himura Battousai is half the reason why I can't forget this show. I was sorely disappointed when I didn't find anything about the Shinsengumi on the Meiji Restoration part of my friend's History textbook, and felt insulted when Katsura's name didn't pop up at all.Yes, I'm obsessed. You have a problem with that?

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Fullmetal Alchemist:
Edward Elric
Roy Mustang
Alphonse Elric
Riza Hawkeye (isn't she the coolest female character in anime history?)
Izumi (this show is really full of strong-willed women)

- I love to read gen fics with Roy and Ed as the main characters, particularly those that depict their relationship in a paternal nature. I'm always looking for well-written non-yaoi fanfiction between Roy and Ed; those seem to be fairly rare in this fandom.

I am in major denial over the ending of the FMA movie. Sadly, I find the movie difficult to understand, and nearly everyone seems to be OOC. For those who haven't yet watched it, I'm not going to dish out spoilers here...it may only be my personal problem.

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Hikaru no Go:
Shindou Hikaru
Touya Akira (who can resist that cute hairstyle and serious eyes?)
Fujiwara no Sai

- Hikaru and Akira arguing their heads off is the cutest scene I've had the honour of coming across. All thanks to this series, I think I have a better idea of what Go is about. (Like Hikaru at the first few episodes, I didn't even know that people can make a living off Go)

The intensity in the whole anime is enough to knock the audience breathless - practically every character in Hikaru no Go have ideas like "I have to win!" "I cannot lose!" "I have to move forward in strides!". The intensity of their passion is heartening, because, in reality, most teenagers nowadays wander about without an aim to their lives. (Er...does that include me?)

Obsession is presented very often in HnG. Apart from the fact that almost every character in HnG is completely obsessed with Go, Akira's obsession with the Sai-Shindou mystery has reached scary proportions. (He still keeps count of the days since he has first met Hikaru. How normal is that?) Hikaru is no different. Apart from obsessing over his eternal rival, he clings desperately onto anything that is Sai-related -a manifestation of his grief, I guess? Thus we have the Hokuto Cup incident.

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Deathnote:
Yagami Raitou
L /Ryuuzaki

-Deathnote is probably the most morally skewed series I've ever laid my hands on. After all, you don't always come across a Shounen comic in which the protagonist is the villain. Raitou isn't just amoral, but downright immoral; what has been a "noble" attempt to cleanse the world of evil soon loses its idealistic touch and plummets to utter evilness since L's appearance.

Raitou is mentally off, no doubt about it; and has a really severe God complex. His air of all-rounded perfection is rather reminscent of our Akira-chan - not that Akira is that crazy to begin with.

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D. Gray-man:
Allen Walker
Kanda Yuu
Cross Marion (...Cross is so evil he makes RK's Hiko look like a kind and gentle master)
Timcanpi

-D. Gray-man has initially caught my attention with its artwork. The themes and characters are actually nothing new, but the story is still rather interesting.

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Gundam Seed:
Kira Yamato
Athrun Zala
Yzak Jule (Would it be a sin to say that I like him just because he has Touya's hairstyle? No, I'm joking. He has a great personality)

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Black Cat:
No. XIII/ Black Cat (technically speaking, Train and No. XIII are the same person, but since I've separated Himura Kenshin and Himura Battousai, I'll just do the same here)
Train Heartnet
Saya Minatsuki
Sephiria Arks / No. I
Creed Diskenth (tell me he isn't gay - I won't believe it. And he's getting gayer by each episode)
Lin Xiaoli / No. X (Lin's appearance in the manga is fleeting.)
Eve

- Black Cat is one of my favourite shows of all time,despite all its use of anime cliches. One thing I think is lacking about the BC manga is that it doesn't focus on Chronos's numbers well enough. Sephiria (No. I )and Janos(No. VII) get their respective showtime, but others like Belze(No. II) and Lin Xiaoli (No. X) simply do not get enough attention. The No.s are actually nicely characterized; I'd rather have them elaborating on Chronos' numbers rather than making up new characters such as the Sweepers' alliance - which, sadly, consists of a few flat characters that fans could not really name.

As for the BC anime, I refuse to accept its existence at all. The first few episodes, though not meeting my expectations, are passable; the episodes after that have no plot at all. The Creed arc ended so abruptly that I could do nothing but gape at the PC screen. As for the Eden arc, it is so badly made that I started cursing Gonzo two episodes into the story. ( and there are stupid new characters abound too) It's a perfect waste of the original action-packed, off-the-wall storyline. Why can't they stick to it, anyway?

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Peace Maker Kurogane:
Okita Souji ( like most PMK fans, I had to look twice to confirm that he isn't some random girl cosplaying Okita...)
Hijikata Toshizo
Saitou Hajime (he's a far cry from RK's Saitou, but still brilliantly characterized. He looks perpetually sleepy in PMK)
Kondo Isamu

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Tactics:
Ichinomiya Kantarou (what I actually like about Kantarou's character is the sudden streak of craftiness behind his childish character. It's common for main characters to have a hidden violent streak, but slyness -I can't even say it's tactfulness - is rarer. )
Haruka (stoic and unreadable most of the time, the Onikui Tengu has a mature charm diverse from that of Kantaro's)
Sugino (I would mistake him for the Chinese's idea of a fairy if I didn't know better...)
Muu

-Frankly, I did not quite like the first anime episode of Tactics, which shows the fateful Kantarou-Haruka meeting. I had a feeling that it is quite...rushed, with Kantarou running straight to the place where Haruka is sealed, and releasing him after a moment's effort. Haruka's first speech is cool, though. The separate episode-by-episode stories later on have nice and touching plotlines. (unlike the random episodes stuck between major arcs in RK, which are there solely to fill time).

Kantarou's character intrigues me, especially his more cunning, scheming side. (it doesn't show often, but well, it is there.) A fanlisting described Katarou as "the Fair Tactian"; I think it's a great way to put it, both referring to his natural paleness and his tactful character.

I am a bit disappointed with Raiko and his crew(animeverse). Raiko claims that he wants Haruka to revert to the strongest Onikui just so he could defeat him. This is...really cliched.(and sounds a lot like every villain's plot against Battousai in RK, too)

At the beginning, the concept "a youkai that is possessed by a ghost turns into a oni" confused me a lot. In Chinese, "oni" and "ghosts" amount to the same thing (i.e. 鬼, the spirit of a dead person), but this doesn't seem to be true for the traditional Japanese.

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Yu-Gi-Oh!:
Yami no Yugi/ Atem
Mutou Yugi
Kaiba Seto ( I swear, he gives villainous laughs three times more often than your common villain.)
Dark Magician/ Mahado
Seth

- Yu-Gi-Oh is a show I have never dreamed of liking. The artwork, the manga's confusing storyline and Yugi's spiky hairstyle had put me off the series for quite a while. I wasn't particularly impressed after watching the first episode, as I had absolutely no idea what the heck is going on. After a friend taught me how to actually play it, however, I began to realize the magic of this particular card game.

Yu-Gi-Oh! started off with erratic plots and character development, which is rather apparent in the manga. As the show continues, however, the plot stabilizes and characters begin to show more depth. The three major arcs are all expertly done (the final duels in Duelist Kingdom and Battle City are breathtakingly intense), but the Ancient Egytian arc ought to be my all time favourite. The friendship and "I've gotta save the world!" ideas make me twitch a bit, but after all, I'm overage.

I have always favoured the idea that Yugi and Yami are the ba and ka of a single soul, torn apart when Atem sealed Zork into the Shadows. In this sense, they are both Pharaoh Atem, the light and shadow of the same soul. Yugi, therefore, is the reincarnation of Atem to a certain extent, but not totally.

Damn the canon for never defining what Yugi is, in relation to Atem and the Millenium items. Vague references to "the chosen one" and "the destined vessel" simply isn't good enough.

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Favourite pairings:

Battousai/Tomoe (RK)
Roy/Hawkeye (FMA)
Train/Saya (BC)

Hobbies:
Writing horrible fics
Drawing scary pics
Reading good fanfics
Dream about marrying one bishounen or another (preferably short ones with long hair) in various animes. I do this in class often enough

If you can't read by my penname, I have a special liking to assassins, dark underground organizations, military things, and the stuff.

In any anime, I have a strange tendency to stick by the main character, whether I truly like them or not. Not to mention that nearly all my favourite characters are the main characters in their respective animes...

Contrary to the above, I also have the tendency NOT to care much for the main female chracter (a.k.a the hero's sweetheart) in any anime. My friends say I'm utterly envious of these pretty little things; it is a lie, I tell you. Except that my brow twitches involuntarily whenever any female character comes within five yards of my favourite hitokiri...

I don't really write yaoi/ yuri fan fictions in any form, not because of moral reasons, but because I seldom care for romance and pairings in general. As those who've read my work will have known, I'm a die-hard action/ adventure (and maybe angst) type of person. 99 percent of my favourite stories contain violence to some extent. War is also a subject I'm constantly on in my fictions (not that I like it, and I refrain from watching war movies simply because of the grossness) must be a side effect from watching too much RK.

Also, I do realize that grammar is not my strong suit. I would be very grateful if reviewers could tell me where I got them wrong, because only then I could seriously improve with my writing.

And about writing an extra chapter or a sequel to my stories. Some reviewers have asked me to add an extra chapter to a particular piece, or write a sequel to it. I'm glad that you guys like my work enough to request a continuation. My one-shots usually won't come with an extra chapter or a sequel - they are meant to end where they ended - but if a plot bunny strikes me hard enough, I may write a companion piece on a similar idea.

While I like OCs as long as they're well written, I take little liking to self-insertions. I always have the feeling that self-insertions sort of...disturbed the ecosystem of the story. So unless a self-insertion is very well written, I will seldom read it.

And just to warn readers, Hitokiri-san is an incredibly slow writer and a complete stranger with plot bunnies. She also writes on an inconsistent whim, which results in sporadic updates.

I think you get the picture by now.You should also have realized that you'd wasted the last five minutes reading a fangirl's drunken gabbling.

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Projects in (Eternal) Progress:

Rurouni Kenshin:

"Why didn't you save me back then?" Soujiro had asked of Kenshin in their duel. A what-if piece based on the idea: what if Kenshin managed to save Soujiro as a child?

Yu-Gi-Oh!:

- Oneshot Yami-Yugi interaction:

Ishizu couldn't imagine the Pharaoh having a row with the Chosen One; now she is finally treated to the sight. With the king on a tantrum and his light thoroughly frazzled, all Ishizu could think of is that this isn't included in a tomb keeper's job description. Fluff and humour.