Tag: Death Note

Let's take a look at the best Halloween anime to watch or re-watch during Spooky Season!

Since 1973’s Aim for the Ace, Madhouse’s first TV show, they’ve used their talented directors and animators to bring our ...

One of the defining elements of storytelling in anime is that — in sharp contrast to anything we had in ...

When people first get into anime, they're often unaware that they're stepping into a completely different world. Not just in ...

Figure company MegaHouse has recently revealed details about the upcoming figure of Light Yagami and L! From the worldwide hit ...

As I wrote in Friday's J-List post, the first anime that really called me into the welcome folds of Japanese ...

J-List is shipping out hundreds of packages daily, including Sailor Moon, Steins;Gate, Pokemon and kawaii cat-related products. In addition to ...

Names in Japanese are interesting, so I thought I'd write about how they work. Japanese names are generally written with ...

  It's finally here: the long-awaited English release of Steins;Gate, the popular visual novel of science, time travel and otaku ...

It's fun to analyze the way anime, game and manga companies go about creating characters that will win the hearts ...

The third Evangelion movie is coming in a week, so my son and I re-watched the second film to get ...

I recently posted an image on the J-List Facebook page and my Twitter feed listing "famous" actors and other personalities ...

Back in the early days of my fascination with Japan, I used to wonder how computers and word processors could ...

I love all manner of Japanese food, from sushi and sashimi to katsu curry, which is thick Japanese curry rice ...

Words sure are complex things, and it's interesting to consider why we use one word over another. This morning I ...

I've started watching an anime series with the rather unique name of A Certain Magical Index, which is about magic-using ...

The Japanese are masters of influencing emotions using voice, and I'm often amazed at the eerie beauty of the voices ...

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

Manga is the name given to Japanese comic books, although most people over the age of 35 or so will ...

Is teen heart-throb Zac Efron, the so-called "next Brad Pitt," an otaku? That's the question asked in a Japanese magazine ...