[FIST OFF: This is NOT my Fanfic. All rights go the the official writer of this lovely piece of art~]

Izaya first finds out what his name means thanks to a school project. Their Japanese teacher has decided to make his lessons meer applicable to his students' lives, and assigns them the homework of finding out what their name means, and telling the whole class the volgende day.

He knows how his name is written thanks to hours of painstaking effort on his mother's part, although it's difficult to remember the order of strokes in his name. It's especially infuriating when he's sitting volgende to Akira,...

Rumiko Takahashi is the best-selling female comic artist of all time, and one of the names door which to reckon the evolution of anime. One of the wealthiest women in Japan, all of her longer running manga have become TV series, and nearly everything she has written has been made into an anime (OVA of TV). Perhaps meer importantly, her influence and the nature of her series since 1980 have been cited as large contributors to the perception and acceptance of anime as a medium today. The anime adaptations for her longer series have an unfortunate tendency to end well before their manga does: the...