At one point, Gamon Maki (or, in Eastern Asian order, Maki Gamon) was just a nerd from Ohio with too much of a shallow interest in Japan. But no more.

One morning, he awoke to discover that he had somehow become a tanuki in his sleep ... he reasoned that the world must be punishing him for his excessive pompous weebery. Even his name was altered to reflect the loss of his old self; he could no longer remember the old one, though it seems the meaning was similar.

Poor guy can't even speak Japanese all that well.