Tag: Anime

I've started watching another new anime, called One Week Friends. It's the ridiculously cute story of a boy named Yuki ...

I've been a lifelong fan of science-fiction stories, especially ones involving time travel and related themes like time dilation. Looking ...

I've been trying (and mostly failing) to keep up with the shows I want to watch in the new anime ...

It's time for a new anime season, which is bad news for me as I'm still not done with the ...

When anime and manga creators go to make a new character, they have a lot of basic personality types to ...

I'm a card-carrying old-school anime fan, and over the years I've gotten much enjoyment out of the Mobile Suit Gundam ...

One of the more specialized areas of any culture is its comedy, and learning to appreciate Japanese humor in its ...

Today (March 11) is the third anniversary of one of the saddest days in recent Japanese history: the magnitude 9 ...

One reason I believe anime became so popular around the world is that it's a medium that's free to tell ...

A few posts ago I wrote about how high schools in Japan often come in girls- and boys-only varieties, though ...

One of the big trends in Japan these days is anime series about idols, and shows like IdolMaster, Love Live! ...

One thing I like about Twitter and Facebook is the ability to have random conversations with readers, and often when ...

One of the more interesting aspects of animation as a medium is the "world building" that creators can do, since ...

If you want to make an anime drinking game, there are plenty of classic situations you can start with. Like, ...

There are certain things the Japanese just seem to really like for reasons that are difficult for foreigners to understand. ...

The J-List staff had fun at our New Year's Party on Friday, eating and drinking on J-List's tab as a ...

Last night I started watching the new Super Sonico The Animation series, a fun show if you like music, fanservice ...

So far the winter 2014 anime season is shaping up to be a good one, with several decent shows I ...

There are generally two kinds of anime series these days: those that run for 12 weeks -- a single anime ...

I write often about the concept of 国民性 kokumin-sei, a word which can be translated as "national character," and one ...

It's fun to try to understand Japan by thinking about its culture from new directions, for example through the aesthetic ...

The other day I watched Pacific Rim, a movie I'd not managed to catch in theaters due to my convention ...

"The distance from Earth to space is the same as from Tokyo to Hakone, about 50 miles/80 km." This was ...

The Japanese are masters when it comes to committing information to memory, like the man who memorized pi to 100,000 ...