Favorite visual artist Mercer Mayer (watercolor), Hayao Miyazaki (animation), Kōsuke Fujishima (character design), Favorite movies How to Train Your Dragon, Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, The Incredibles, The Bourne Identity Favorite TV shows Martian Successor Nadesico, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Avatar: the Last Airbender, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Stargate Favorite bands / musical artists Yoko Kanno, Nobuo Uematsu, They Might Be Giants, Favorite books Pride and Prejudice, Night Watch, Thud!, The Return of the King, Howl's Moving Castle, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Children's and Household Tales (Grimm's Fairy Tales) Favorite writers Terry Pratchett, J.R.R. Tolkien, Patricia C. Wrede, Lloyd Alexander, Diana Wynne Jones, Howard Tayler, Phil and Kaja Foglio Favorite games Final Fantasy VI, VII, and IX; Seiken Densetsu 2 (Secret of Mana); Chrono Trigger; Mother 2 (Earth Bound); Metroid: Zero Mission; Metroid: Other M; Advance Wars; Favorite gaming platform SNES, PC, Playstation, Real Life, whatever . . . Tools of the Trade pencil, pen, marker, mouse, hand, Canon DSLR, clay, salt dough, Wacom Bamboo Pen and Tablet Other Interests anime, animation, books, languages, physics and astronomy, fairy tales