A New Level of “Ecchi” Fanservice, plus the Kanji of the Year
The Holidays are nearly on us, but there's still time for a new sale! From now through December 13th, we're ...
The Holidays are nearly on us, but there's still time for a new sale! From now through December 13th, we're ...
The other day I was in a store buying groceries when I decided to pick up some cans of "highball," ...
One of the most successful ideas in the history of anime has been the creation of stories about idols, which ...
We hope everyone in the U.S. had a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving holiday surrounded by family and friends. J-List's big ...
Anime can be based on many things: popular manga series (Maken-ki!, Cardcaptor Sakura), light novels (Oreimo, Sword Art Online), visual ...
Without a doubt one of the best shows on this season is the new Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works, a ...
Another anime series that caught my eye this season was Grisaia no Kajitsu, a harem-style show about a mysterious main ...
Japan's "anime" industry, of course, is part of a complex network of companies in related but separate industries, all working ...
I've written before about the way Japan-related fandom can be a place where dreams come true. Many of Japan's professional ...
When manga and anime creators go to design a new character, they have many options available to them. They might ...
It can be fun to try and trace the origins of anime-related memes. For example, if you use the phrase ...
J-List has been involved with translating and selling visual novels, alternatively called VNs, bishoujo games, dating sims and "gal-games" since ...
J-List has been involved with licensing and translating visual novels -- in their ecchi form they're known as bishoujo games, ...
Since 1996 J-List has been working to create a market for English-translated visual novels from Japan, also called eroge, "gal" ...
It's fun to observe how the visual elements of anime character design change and evolve from season to season. Animators ...
For years, J-List has been involved in translating and promoting Japanese "dating-sim games," a genre of interactive PC game in ...
The other day I went into a store and saw an advertisement for a chair that used bags of compressed ...
Last time I put forth the idea that perhaps one solution to Japan's birth rate woes might lie in international ...