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J-List has been involved with translating and selling visual novels, alternatively called VNs, bishoujo games, dating sims and "gal-games" since ...

One reason anime is interesting as a genre is because of the strong emotions it lets fans access. Whether it's ...

This may not exactly come as a surprise, but I love anime fandom. It's a warm and comfortable place filled ...

Sunday is Mother's Day, a day to think of your okaasan and do something nice for her if you can. ...

Japan, of course, is a very seasonal place, with a strong tradition of doing different things during each of the ...

One thing I love about anime is its ability to affect viewers emotionally, often with characters so tragic they're almost ...

It's fun to observe how the visual elements of anime character design change and evolve from season to season. Animators ...

I've written before about how anime is a very stylized world, where characters can have impossibly large and expressive eyes ...

Ever since tear-jerkers like Clannad After Story came along, it seems more and more anime series involve stories that can ...

One of the cuter -- or possibly creepier -- things that Japanese girls do is refer to themselves in the ...

It's fun to deconstruct random elements of anime, for example...dads! Fathers in anime come in many shapes and sizes, and ...

One of the joys of being an anime fan in Japan is visiting the real places seen in your favorite ...

I write often that anime is a successful medium because it allows viewers to access a wide range of strong ...

You can learn a lot about Japan through its language, including such simple things as first and second-person pronouns, which ...

Without a doubt, one of the more interesting aspects of anime is the way it uses strong emotions to heighten ...

For years, J-List has been involved in translating and promoting Japanese "dating-sim games," a genre of interactive PC game in ...

Every year J-List brings you hundreds of awesome Japanese calendars, and we're in full "calendar mode" right now, loaded with ...

If you watch any anime at all, you'll know the classic story archetype of the "school trip," when all the ...

Late-night TV in Japan is always fun to watch, and I like to flip through the channels to see what's ...

There are many reasons that Japanese animation has grown popular in nearly every corner of the world, including the uniqueness ...

One of the cuter -- or possibly creepier -- things that Japanese girls do is refer to themselves in the ...

Since we were nearby, we stopped by Lake Kizaki, the area famous as the location of the Please Teacher and ...

Being an anime fan, I'm interested in the musical component of my hobby, the OP and ED (er, opening and ...

While it's fun to experience Japan through anime, I wonder how often some of the more subtle cultural nuances are ...