J-List Update January 24, 2014
It's fun to examine some of broader categories of anime that exist. There are harem anime like Infinite Stratos and ...
It's fun to examine some of broader categories of anime that exist. There are harem anime like Infinite Stratos and ...
In the same way that the Doctor Who franchise tells stories about sweeping intergalactic events that always happen to center ...
One of the more welcome changes over the last two decades has been the Rise of the Fangirl, which has ...
There's a new Hayao Miyazaki film in theaters right now, and since it's arguably my job to watch anime, I ...
Well, we're done with another Anime Expo, and this one was loads of fun as usual. We greeted many fans ...
We like to think of our little company as a "wonderful toy box of things from Japan" where various products ...
It's fun to analyze the way anime, game and manga companies go about creating characters that will win the hearts ...
One big trend over the past few years has been "otaku marketing," tying product brands to anime series that fans ...
Japan is a land of fast-moving fashion trends, and you never know what the next fad will be. One week ...
One of the more interesting aspects of Japan is its free-spirited culture of doujinshi, which are comics and related works ...
The third Evangelion movie is coming in a week, so my son and I re-watched the second film to get ...
One of the best things to happen to anime fandom has been the rise of the fangirl. Back in the ...
It's a glorious time for me as an anime fan, thanks to the new Space Battleship Yamato series that started ...
The other night I found myself randomly surfing Japanese late-night TV to see what was on. First was a TV ...
Sunday is Mother's Day, a day to do something nice for that very special mom in your life. It's also ...
I happened to see a news article that said the president of Nippon Sheet Glass, an American, was leaving the ...
If the anime of the 80s can be summed up as stories about mankind's grand future in space (Gundam, Macross, ...
The autumn crop of keitai denwa (cellular phones) has been announced by Japan's major phone makers, so I thought I'd ...
I often write about the "meticulous Japanese" and their amazing ability to do the same thing in and out for ...
It's fun to deconstruct random elements of anime, for example...dads! Fathers in anime come in many shapes and sizes, and ...
I sometimes look back with fondness on my college days, and the adventure that was learning Japanese in Mrs. Higurashi's ...
Part of the fun of watching anime is enjoying all the wacky memes that are created, from the venerable girl-with-toast-in-mouth-rushing-off-to-school ...
The rapid changes brought by the Internet have forced just about every industry to adapt. Anime is no different, and ...
I continue to enjoy Amagami SS, the anime series based on a PS2 dating-sim game that probably best defines the ...