: About Me

Hi,
My name is Charlie Gaffney. Most call me Chuck for some reason since high school so I go with it. Anyways, I'm the owner of a semi-popular anime fan site and store called Chuck's Anime Shrine. I live out in Selden, New York for now. I'm the oldest of 8 kids and my dream is to be a major part of the video game and anime world. As an anime and video game store owner (plus a gamer since I was actually 1 year old), my projects include full production of my own independent anime, manga, video games and the like. I'm even going to see if I can bust into the anime voice actor stage since I'm from the same "Select Chorus" class that former American Idol semi-finalist Jared Cotter is from. I can change my voice around well or at least that's what I'm told, so who knows?

My passion is ...

anime, videogames, being in business for myself and owning my life

I know too much about ...

anime, science and business stuff

My parents always told me ...

A job is ment for you to make money to fund your own company and make more than anyone else and have the time for family too.

My childhood ambition ...

Professional hockey player, Weather Man, Videogame Designer, anime artist, voice actor

My favorite memory ...

The best is yet to come... porbably will be my wedding day in a year.

Why I write ...

Why not?

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Any anime, Family Guy, business books

My first job ...

Kay Bee Toys Stock Person

My best moment ...

Again, not yet happened but will be my wedding day or my first child's birth.

My inspiration ...

Japanese animation and culture always puts things at a higher level than the rest of the world. This perfectionist motive is what drives me.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Life of an anime fan

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In order for me to talk about my life as an anime fan I must first mention where I came from. I started very very young as a video game fan. At the age of 1 you could have caught me playing Pac Man Jr. on my dad's Atari 2600. From then on I was a fan of video games and indirectly a fan of Japanese culture. I would watch the old pre-Nick-Toon cartoons of the 80's and I was in my little childhood heaven. Fast forward to late 1996; I'm a young 7th grader, still a big video game fan and now just getting into the internet age. My life consisted of mainly Nintendo driven games and yes that year ...

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