Tag: Anime

When you use a foreign language every day, it's a no-brainer you're going to find yourself in a situation where ...

In Japan, they have a fun custom around New Year's where stores sealed fuku-bukuro ("lucky bags") filled with unknown contents ...

If you browse the new J-List Holiday Gift Guide, you'll find a host of products the J-List staff thought would ...

When you first start to watch anime, you naturally encounter concepts that seem strange. Like those funny blue lines that ...

One of the more interesting classes I took back at SDSU was a course on screenplay writing, which sought to ...

One thing about learning a foreign language like Japanese: words don't always match up neatly, and it's not uncommon to ...

I recently noticed a flyer for an interesting literary club in my neighborhood called the Tale of Genji Research Circle. ...

Announcing the all-new J-List Website! After months of hard work by the J-List staff, we're happy to be able to ...

Over the weekend my family and I went down to Yokohama to check out a high school we might be ...

Some big changes are coming to J-List: a total site refresh, with both J-List and JBOX.com sites getting a total ...

I'm still getting caught up on all the anime series I wasn't able to watch while in the U.S. My ...

I saw there was an 8-car pile-up on a freeway in Osaka a few days ago, which resulted in three ...

A few updates ago I mentioned Saitama, the Japanese prefecture that's been made semi-famous as the home of Crayon Shin-chan, ...

It was a year ago Saturday that Crayon Shin-chan creator Yoshito Usui died after falling 100 meters down a sheer ...

So far this has been a heck of a year for losing awesome people, including Gary Coleman, Dennis Hopper, J.D. ...

Life is a little more fun when you know some Japanese, whether it's to communicate with nihonjin who can't use ...

I've always had an odd affinity for movies released in the year I was born, which was 1968. Three awesome ...

Learning a foreign language like Japanese is fun because it makes you more aware of how your own brain works. ...

I've been bothered by a dry eye condition over the past few days, really not a fun experience, and yesterday ...

You never know when Japanese customs will catch you off guard. When our kids were born, I insisted on being ...

J-List carries the iTunes Japan prepaid cards, which are an awesome way to get access to the latest JPOP, anime ...

I saw a news report on the BBC's website the other day about the challenges Japan faces as its population ...

One of the joys of being a long-term gaijin in Japan is eventually building a house here. Houses in Japan ...

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