Tag: Anime

Humans are strange creatures. It's okay for a man to carry a laptop bag or "messenger bag" or a backpack, ...

If you've ever spoken with a Japanese person at length, you may have noticed them making strange "agreeing noises" while ...

I saw the news that Robotech creator Carl Macek had died on Saturday, making it a sad day for all ...

J-List carries a lot of unique and interesting products, and it can be fun to see what the top 50 ...

Since Tokyo is just a 45 minute Shinkansen ride from J-List's home prefecture of Gunma, it's quite convenient for us ...

Like many, I've gotten into Twitter, posting my random thoughts on life, the universe and everything while passing along information ...

Some big news for J-List fans -- come by our retail store on your next trip to Japan! For Immediate ...

The Season of the Sakura has come to Japan, and all throughout the country cherry trees are exploding like beautiful ...

Alcohol has historically played an important social role in Japan, and it's interesting to examine some of the customs that ...

The other day I was reading through random Wikipedia articles and I happened across the entry on Jonny Quest. For ...

Just a quick note by the way -- sometime soon we'll move the site from our server to Blogger's system, ...

Just about any aspect of Japan can provide an interesting cultural lesson, even names. In Japan, everyone has a family ...

J-List carries dozens of fun products for fans of Queen's Blade, the popular anime series which started out as a ...

One of the first things I did after arriving in Japan in 1991 was head down to Shinjuku, Tokyo, the ...

I'm always happy to offer random advice about what to see when planning a trip to Japan. While the Kansai ...

Like many people, I have an iPhone, and I carry it with me everywhere, stroking it lovingly and calling it ...

First of all, many apologies for the off-and-on server problems we've been experiencing over the past couple of days. We're ...

As a general rule, Japan is very "about" -- an English word the Japanese use to mean subtle, vague or ...

The other day I came across a site asking in all seriousness which country's animation was better, the U.S. or ...

A week or so ago, a bizarre-looking deep-sea fish called Ryugu-no-Tsukai, which Wikipedia tells me is "oarfish" in English, started ...

One of our favorite categories of product are the gorgeous artbooks in Japan, which are printed on high gloss paper ...

It's funny how anime characters tend to follow certain established patterns, like the classic dojikko clumsy girl, or the always-popular ...

There are several methods of learning a foreign language, including Grammar-Translation (learning grammar and example sentences), Total Physical Response ("Simon ...

In Japanese, there's a class of polite phrases that are useful to memorize since they're used quite almost daily. One ...