Tag: Anime

2016 is finally winding down, with everyone in Japan rushing to get everything they need done before the new year ...

Hello again from Japan. We're having a 15% off sale on all T-shirts and "ecchi" grab bags based in San ...

I like the recent trend in shows like Shirobako, New Game! and Sore ga Seiyu, which give us a glimpse ...

It's fun to analyze trends in anime names and the signals they send. When I checked out the anime Masou ...

I've been on a health kick for a couple of years, taking 4km walks and hitting the gym twice a ...

I continue to enjoy Gi(a)rlish Number, a show about a lazy up-and-coming seiyu named Chitose who gets her first major ...

As an anime blogger in 2016, I'm thankful for many things. I'm thankful to the hardworking animators, writers, seiyu and ...

It's not easy for Japan's animation studios keep coming up with ideas for hit shows every season, and one recent ...

There have been some major innovations in the anime industry over the years, including the first transforming mecha shows, the ...

Recently I came across a picture of Wal-Mart's "anime" selection on the Internet, showing a dozen or so Western animated ...

One of the most famous features of anime is, of course, the large, expressive eyes, which are so good at ...

One of the good things about animation is that creators can show anything they can dream up, and it's fun ...

The popularity of anime and related culture throughout Japan has led to anime-style visual images being used in all kinds ...

Last night I took my son to go see the new Godzilla film, called Shin (New) Godzilla in Japan and ...

Hello from your Friend in japan, J-List! We're busy preparing for the San Diego Comicon (we'll be at booth 4929!), ...

It's fun to look up odd place names, like Intercourse, Pennsylvania, Climax, Michigan, or Le Tampon, France. Naturally, there's a ...

Another cute show airing this season is High School Fleet, aka Hai-Furi, the latest in the ongoing "cute moe girls ...

When I was in high school, I got a shiny new Atari 400 and proceeded to teach myself programming, starting ...

I've been a student of Japan's animation industry for more years than I care to contemplate, and have seen many ...

One of the more interesting trends of the past decade has been "moe anthropomorphism," the practice of taking real-world objects ...

One thing I like about animation as a medium is the way anything that can be conceived of can be ...

Although I love anime, I naturally have a few pet peeves about it, too. Like when I get emotionally invested ...

Although cities like Tokyo have excellent train and subway systems, in most parts of Japan the only way to get ...

Over the past week I've been working through Amazon's The Man in the High Castle, the alternate history drama by ...