Tag: Clannad

Without a doubt, one of the more interesting aspects of anime is the way it uses strong emotions to heighten ...

For years, J-List has been involved in translating and promoting Japanese "dating-sim games," a genre of interactive PC game in ...

Every year J-List brings you hundreds of awesome Japanese calendars, and we're in full "calendar mode" right now, loaded with ...

If you watch any anime at all, you'll know the classic story archetype of the "school trip," when all the ...

Late-night TV in Japan is always fun to watch, and I like to flip through the channels to see what's ...

There are many reasons that Japanese animation has grown popular in nearly every corner of the world, including the uniqueness ...

One of the cuter -- or possibly creepier -- things that Japanese girls do is refer to themselves in the ...

Since we were nearby, we stopped by Lake Kizaki, the area famous as the location of the Please Teacher and ...

Being an anime fan, I'm interested in the musical component of my hobby, the OP and ED (er, opening and ...

While it's fun to experience Japan through anime, I wonder how often some of the more subtle cultural nuances are ...

During my time here I've learned a lot about the Japanese. For example, they can be very "boom"-oriented, happy to ...

Yesterday was my daughter's graduation ceremony from elementary school, and my wife and I watched proudly as our little girl ...

I write a lot about how Japan's society is considered "vertical," with concepts like senpai, a senior in a school, ...

There's an interesting category of vocabulary words made up of four kanji characters, which probably represents a grammatical construction left ...

Moé (pronounced mo-EH) is one of the primary concepts driving much of the anime world today, essentially occupying an entire ...