Hi Heather! It's nice to meet you. :) I'm Sten. If you're looking for friends, there's a topic here in Chit-Chat that you can post in over here. Feel free to post there and look around for others that share your interests.

If you haven't already, you should take a peek at the Writing Discussion forum and the Entertainment forum (which has subforums for anime, manga, and books) and see if you can find anything you're interested in as well.

I hope you're able to find some folks who share your interests!