Ken Innes

"I love the expansive stories, the wonderful animation and multidimensional characters," says Ken Innes, a computer programmer and anime fan who lves near San Francisco.
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Innes is your quintessential anime fan.He is 27 and makes his living as a programmer for Working Designs, a company that localizes Japanese video games for the US market.After work, Innes lies on his couch scanning TiVo (a program guide) to find anime shows.Innes hasn't missed an episode of Inuyasha yet, he says.But then he also checks out Dragon Ball, Yu Yu Hakusho, Tokyo Pig, Hamtazo and whatever else gets recorded."I watch at least one anime TV show a week," he says.Like other anime fans, Innes has his own Web site, AbsoluteAnime.com, where anime followers post their own bios and profiles.It's for fans to keep track of which character is which, he says.

Recently fans have been getting even younger.
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More Americans got excited by anime in 1993, when the Fox Channel Network aired a remake of the Power Rangers, says Innes.