Tag: Anime

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 ...

Somewhere in Japan there's a computer that runs an algorithm for generating "harem" anime stories, which I believe was used ...

I'm always happy when an anime series manages to be totally fresh and original, rather than yet another moe harem ...

There are many sides to Japanese pop culture, including anime, manga, moe-kei games, and cosplay. Another category with a long ...

A new anime season is upon us, and I'm doing my best to keep up with the flood of new ...

When manga and anime creators go to design a new character, they have many options available to them. They might ...

A new anime season is upon us, and as usual I'm still rushing to finish last season's shows, like Attack ...

One of the more welcome changes over the last two decades has been the Rise of the Fangirl, which has ...

I was hearing good things about the new anime Kiniro Mosaic (Gold Colored Mosaic), so I thought I'd give it ...

One common theme in anime is the dramatic and/or humorous tension that arises when girls are attracted to other girls. ...

There are a lot of unique fashions that are either created or enriched by Japan's anime subculture world, like the ...

There's a new Hayao Miyazaki film in theaters right now, and since it's arguably my job to watch anime, I ...

It's time for a new anime season, even though I still haven't caught up with the previous one. There are ...