Tag: cats

Junji Ito's Cat Diary is unlike any of his other works. While the art retains his trademark eerie style, it ...

What would be the most challenging thing cats would face if they ran a ramen shop? Holding cooking utensils? Taking ...

Let’s keep the spooky waifu train going. We celebrated vampire girls last week, and now we move on to the black cats of anime. ...

An office lady discovers a tiny kitten in the snow and adopts it as her own. Years later, this office ...

Neko Night is another exciting, lewd, and titillating game from the fine developers at Chaos-L (the L stands for "love," ...

Fans of Too Cute Crisis, known in Japan as Kawaisugi Crisis, have much to look forward to in April 2023 ...

A new king of the internet cats has been crowned, and he’s a-meow-zing… don’t worry, I’ll see myself out for ...

I love Japan's tradition of creating special days based on the flimsiest of excuses, like how November 23 is "Good ...

Doujinshi licensor J18 has been pleasing us with some great releases lately, like the recently announced Training Day and their ...

Regular customers know that J-List sells awesome Japanese calendars every year. This year we've got a great line-up of anime ...

One of the sleeper gems of the current anime season is My Roommate is a Cat (Japanese title Dokyonin ha Hiza, ...

Happy Cat Day from Japan! Since 2/22 sounds like nyan nyan nyan to the Japanese, today has been designated as a ...

The new anime season continues, and as usual, I'm sampling a dozen or more shows, trying to scout out which ...

Colonel Sanders is one of the most recognizable faces of the 20th century. He's also a huge icon here in ...

In the universe of female anime characters, there are many core character types creators can use to tell stories. Energetic ...

There's a lot of love for cats in Japan. You might already know about Maneki Neko, the iconic cat statue ...

Japanese homes are quite different from homes in the West. For example, there's always a low area by the front ...

Everyone loves touching stories involving beloved pets. When my family moved to New Zealand back in the 70s, we had ...

Today's interesting word of Japanese is guuzen (goo-zen), which means "coincidence." I don't know why, but there seems to be ...

There's an interesting Japanese news-and-discussion program on Saturdays called Yasuhiro Tase's Weekly News Report, where the important news stories of ...

I've written before about how Japan's Internet is quite different from the net in the English-speaking world, with different memes ...

If you've listened to spoken Japanese at all you've probably heard the word desu, often pronounced with the last syllable ...

One aspect of living in Japan is constantly being surrounded by cute images, a fact I was reminded of this ...

I still remember my first day of Japanese class back at SDSU, when our teacher taught us one of the ...