A dark new anime from Sunrise, plus the joy of sushi and wasabi.
I started watching another anime series recently called Cross Ange, a new offering by Sunrise. Quite a "dark" show – ...
I started watching another anime series recently called Cross Ange, a new offering by Sunrise. Quite a "dark" show – ...
moe culture, and connecting with anime through food. Last weekend was Comic Market, aka Comiket , the huge doujinshi convention ...
One of my hobbies over the years has been making observations about Japanese females, based on students I taught, several ...
"The distance from Earth to space is the same as from Tokyo to Hakone, about 50 miles/80 km." This was ...
One of the joys of watching anime is, of course, the incredible high quality of the seiyu, the voice actors ...
One big trend over the past few years has been "otaku marketing," tying product brands to anime series that fans ...
One thing I like about animation is that it can show anything, express any idea, and even let us see ...
One reason I like anime is that it's a very visual medium in which futuristic and/or fanciful ideas can be ...
The rapid changes brought by the Internet have forced just about every industry to adapt. Anime is no different, and ...
Learning a foreign language like Japanese is fun because it makes you more aware of how your own brain works. ...
One aspect I like a lot about Japan is the general lack of "uptightness" people and companies have about the ...
The other day I was reading through random Wikipedia articles and I happened across the entry on Jonny Quest. For ...
An interesting thing has happened to anime over the past few years: it's become quite common to see well-known products ...
In an episode of Code Geass, the anime about an alternate-reality Earth in which Japan is conquered by the evil ...
You never know what's going to become popular in Japan next. It could be a new variation on the Maid ...