Tag: convention

I saw that yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the release of My Neighbor Totoro, one of my all-time favorite ...

When foreigners come to Japan, it's natural they'll encounter objects that are common and familiar to Japanese people yet strange ...

We have great news for anyone who'll be attending Anime Expo this year. J-List and TamaToys have teamed up to ...

You never, as they say, forget your first, and I've found this goes for studying kanji, too. While the first ...

Yesterday several J-List staff members and I went to Tokyo Big Sight to check out the International Gift Show, a ...

I often write about a useful method for understanding Japan through the concept of kata, a word that can mean ...

Like many people, love the works of Hayao Miyazaki, ever since catching a showing of Nausicaa of the Valley of ...

Well, the San Diego Comic-Con is over for another year, the banners and booths all taken down. After all the ...

We're here at the San Diego Comic-Con, the most excellent place to be if you love comics, anime, sci-fi movies ...

Since I don't live in the U.S. full time, but only come over for the summer for Anime Expo and ...

I continue to enjoy my time back home, doing San Diego things like going to the beach and the desert. ...

Wednesday marked Independence Day in the U.S., and since Anime Expo was kind enough to end before the holiday this ...

Well, another Anime Expo has come and gone, and the J-List crew had a blast, meeting our awesome customers and ...

We're having a great time here at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, meeting fans and customers and selling lots of ...

Well, my wife has gone back to Japan, having spent a nice two weeks with me here in San Diego ...

I've been enjoying my time in San Diego, zooming around the freeways as I drive to the J-List San Diego ...

Hello from sunny cloudy San Diego. I've made the 5443 mile (8759 km) journey from Japan to my home city, ...

One of the more unique aspects of Japanese animation has always been the tendency for certain series to feature nudity, ...

Like many Japanese young people my son is into Japan's ubiquitous BBS 2ch (pronounced ni-channeru in Japanese), where all manner ...

Getting into anime means exposing yourself to a lot of new ideas, for example learning concepts like senpai and kohai ...

I'm back in Japan, after a long and satisfying "vacation" in the U.S. (actually working those conventions is quite a ...

Because I live outside the U.S. and only come back to visit a few times a year, it's interesting to ...

Well, the San Diego Comic-con is over for another year, and the J-List staff and I are tired, but still ...

There are many fascinating new technologies that come along, and you never know which will take off. The QR ("quick ...