Tag: Anime

I have an odd policy when it comes to anime: I watch nearly every show twice. If it's worth watching ...

Here's a little observation I've made: when something gets "too" popular, it will peak then rapidly lose popularity for a ...

Do you have a cat's tongue? If so, it means that you can't eat hot food or drink hot drinks, ...

One of the joys of living in Japan is the high level of service you generally experience in restaurants and ...

My son is a jukensei right now, preparing for the most difficult tests of his life which will determine which ...

As you can imagine, Japan has changed a lot since we founded our little company offering wacky bento boxes and ...

Christmas is in the air, and J-List is ready to serve you in any way you need. While we have ...

One of the biggest challenges for learners of Japanese is dealing with what isn't stated in a sentence. My German-fluent ...

Keeping warm in Japan is not the easiest thing in the world, especially when you're from San Diego, a city ...

Over the weekend I did my duty as a Japan blogger and went to see the Space Battleship Yamato live ...

Today is the "roadshow" (movie release) of the Space Battleship Yamato live-action film, Japan's newest attempt at merging one of ...

There are some interesting things to be found on Japanese TV, like a show in which a comedian goes into ...

I continue to enjoy Amagami SS, the anime series based on a PS2 dating-sim game that probably best defines the ...

The next time you're in the village of Ayukawa in Yamagata Prefecture in northern Japan, you might want to go ...

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 ...