Tag: Anime

Today is the day of J-List's official New Year Party, and when we're done with work we'll all gather at ...

Part of learning a foreign language involves internalizing its phonetic system, and that can take time, especially when the language ...

One thing I like about animation is that it can show anything, express any idea, and even let us see ...

Microsoft has released a new OS, and in Japan that means new moe characters will be used to market the ...

The saber rattling between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands continues, with China officially canceling a planned event to ...

It's a glorious time for me as an anime fan, thanks to the new Space Battleship Yamato series that started ...

It's fun to analyze the physics of anime, which govern everything from the properties of Pokeballs to the unique effects ...

It's certainly a nice time for my son and me to be outside of Japan, which is sweltering with summer ...

It was reported last week that the Japanese Diet had passed a new law that outlawed various forms of Internet ...

One character archetype I like a lot is the tsundere (TSOON-deh-reh), a word which combines tsun tsun (meaning angry, grouchy) ...

One of our favorite recent anime series is I Have Few Friends, known by its requisite four-syllable nickname as Haganai, ...

One thing you have to know about the Japanese people: they really love rice. The Japanese eat it with most ...

The Japanese use English in many ways in their daily lives, for expressing words related to automobiles or technology, for ...

I have a lot of respect for companies that work hard to understand the countries they do business in, and ...

It's funny how people often come to associate place names with products. The first time I visited the city of ...

One the less memorable anime series of 2010 was Sora no Woto ("Sound of the Sky"), which can be described ...

Japan is a country with no guns at all...or so I thought when I arrived here in 1991, and learned ...

Tomorrow marks the start of Golden Week, a cluster of Japanese holidays that usually fall near each other. In theory, ...

It's funny, the things about Japan that delight foreigners who come here. The unique sound of a Japanese train crossing, ...

We've got a slightly irregular update schedule since I'm traveling this week, but don't worry, the J-List staff has posted ...

I really enjoyed the Haruka arc of Amagami SS+, especially all the jokes related to foreigners, which were hilarious and ...

It's fun to analyze the various social rules at work in Japan, most of which are completely invisible to Japanese ...

One the more interesting shows this anime season has been Papa no Iu Koto wo Kikinasai!, aka PapaKiki!, aka Listen ...

One show I've been enjoying this season has been Rinne no Lagrange, a fun-fun moe mecha anime with some yuri ...