Tag: Anime

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 ...

Since watching anime is literally my job, I decided to check out the new Pandora in the Crimson Shell so ...

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If you've watched any anime at all, you know there's a well-used trope called the "beach episode" in which all ...

One show I’ve been waiting for quite eagerly is the second season of Non Non Biyori (roughly translatable as "fine ...

I've been a student of animation all my life, ever since I fell in love with Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato, ...

As usual a new anime season has arrived and I'm still rushing to finish the shows from last season. One ...

It was fun spending time in Las Vegas, relaxing by the pool and enjoying the odd beer or five. I ...

In many ways, Westerners are quite enigmatic the Japanese, who can't understand how we can come in so many variations, ...

As the new anime season progresses, I've been doing my best to keep up with the major series, and mostly ...

In addition to trying to revive the Japanese economy through his "Abenomics" reforms (which have had the effect of making ...

The current anime season is winding down, and as usual I'm scrambling to finish the shows I've been following before ...

I realized I'd missed the new film from Nitroplus called Rakuen Tsuihou: Expelled From Paradise, so I decided to watch ...

yuri, plus Japan's love of fax machines. I started another anime series last night called Koufuku Graffiti (Gourmet Girl Graffiti ...

J-List 's huge holiday sale is continuing, and our customers are ordering tons of cool items every day, including Sailor ...

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I started watching another anime series recently called Cross Ange, a new offering by Sunrise. Quite a "dark" show – ...