Are Anime Characters “Western”?
One question often asked is, why do anime characters look "Western"? Often Americans will perceive the "large eyes" seen in ...
One question often asked is, why do anime characters look "Western"? Often Americans will perceive the "large eyes" seen in ...
The Japanese are a very health-minded group of people, a fact observed by Aflac founder John Amos when he visited ...
Well, that was a fun weekend. We had a great time at the Twin Peaks Fest, visiting different sites from ...
I'm one of the lucky few people in the world whose job it is to watch anime, and I've been ...
Because I live outside the U.S. and only come back to visit a few times a year, it's interesting to ...
Hello again, this time from...the Pacific Northwest. I've driven with two friends up to Snoqualmie, Washington, to attend the Twin ...
One word you learn pretty early when studying Japanese is gaman suru (gah-mahn suru) which means to endure or tolerate ...
When manga and anime creators go to design a new character, they have many personality types to start from. They ...
Being away from Japan for a long time can make a gaijin and his son yearn for real Japanese food. ...
Well, that was quite a trip. Over five days my son and I managed to hit some of the more ...
Japanese is a very subtle language, and I thought it'd be interesting to examine the many ways you can express ...