Random thoughts on the new Godzilla, plus Hokusai, the original creator of manga
I finally found time to go see the new Godzilla movie that everyone was buzzing about a month or so ...
I finally found time to go see the new Godzilla movie that everyone was buzzing about a month or so ...
One reason I believe anime became so popular around the world is that it's a medium that's free to tell ...
One thing I like about Twitter and Facebook is the ability to have random conversations with readers, and often when ...
Yesterday I went down to Tokyo Big Sight with Mai, the talented J-List employee who keeps our site stocked with ...
The decades after WWII have seen some successful American businesses establish themselves in Japan, including Coca-Cola, Toys R Us and ...
Every once in a while Japan does something that makes you stop and say, "wait, what?" Like when they advertised ...
It's fun to examine some of broader categories of anime that exist. There are harem anime like Infinite Stratos and ...
We're rushing today's update a bit because tonight is the 新年会 shin-nen kai or New Year's Party of J-List. Similar ...
Well another year has come to an end. We at J-List would like to thank our wonderful customers all over ...
I saw a report on Bloomberg that talked about anime as "Japan's most influential export" in the 21st century, as ...
There are certain things I will never understand about Japan, like their fascination with the number of creases a person ...
Hello from "the land of kawaii and sugoi," Japan! J-List is in full Christmas mode, packing and shipping hundreds of ...
The anime industry has certainly gone through changes over the years. You could break it down into different eras, perhaps ...
A couple of updates ago I wrote about the word 常識 joshiki, meaning 'common sense,' and how one of the ...
Buying a new car in Japan is a bit different from what you might be used to. First of all, ...
The new Madoka Magica movie opened this weekend, so naturally I made time to go see it. Whereas the first ...
One of the more welcome changes over the last two decades has been the Rise of the Fangirl, which has ...
One common theme in anime is the dramatic and/or humorous tension that arises when girls are attracted to other girls. ...
There are a lot of unique fashions that are either created or enriched by Japan's anime subculture world, like the ...
As a student of Japanese pop culture, I like to observe how 2D characters evolve and change with each new ...
One of the best things to happen to anime fandom has been the rise of the fangirl. Back in the ...
If the anime of the 80s can be summed up as stories about mankind's grand future in space (Gundam, Macross, ...
I write often about Japan's love for kawaii (cute) culture, which has come to define the country as much as ...
Recently I was getting all nostalgic with my Twitter followers about how things have changed for anime fans over the ...