Tag: ecchi

Ah, fan service. Whether a show uses it sparingly as a bonus "hot springs episode" to thank fans for tuning ...

Despite the Winter 2021 anime season feeling a bit scant in comparison to the Spring, there are still anime and ...

Anime censorship. We all hate it, because one of the reasons we became fans of animation from Japan was that ...

Doujinshi licensor J18 Publishing has recently released a new book with a farm full of cowgirls! Mommy Milky Meadows Collection by Misaoka (Misaoka ...

Doujinshi licensor J18 Publishing has put up a new lewd doujinshi by Samemanma (Twitter) for pre-order, A Girl Like Her? Doing Stuff like That? As ...

One reason we enjoy anime is that it just "gets" us, offering us the kinds of stories we want to ...

Each culture is shaped by its language, and the people in turn shape that language every day. As I've written ...

We love working with famous eroge companies to deliver fresh and awesome products to everyone, and our newest partner is ...

As I pointed out recently, the current batch of anime series might be the most perverted anime season ever, with ...

As an anime blogger, I often find myself defending the industry from stereotypes. When fans complain that "all" anime shows ...

In the first article I ever wrote for J-List, I discussed the decline of the Senran Kagura series. I took ...

Goofy, raunchy, irreverent, sometimes more than a little gross; These were all characteristics I fully expected of the Please Tell ...

While they took some time to get used to, I find I often like the trend of short-ish (12-minutes or ...

The new anime season is upon us and as usual, I'm trying to watch a dozen or more shows at ...

I've been fortunate to live in Japan for 27 years, and during my time here, I've traveled around extensively, visiting ...

Could this be the end of an era for the popular blogging platform? Tumblr recently announced that they will be ...

At J-List, we try to be much more than an anime shop: we consider ourselves a mirror that reflects the ...

Some images just seem to sum up Japan for me somehow. Walking through a tunnel of torii arches in Kyoto, ...

One theme I cover a lot is that capitalism in Japan doesn't work the way it does in other countries. ...

It can be easy to get the wrong idea about other countries, and it's not uncommon for people to carry ...

There's no place quite like Japan for that paradigm-shifting-without-a-clutch experience. When my daughter started junior high school, she went online ...

The Japanese language naturally has elements that are very different from Western languages, like a formalized system of polite speech ...

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

There are some pretty hilarious place names in the world, like Hell, Michigan, Hookersville, West Virginia or Lord Berkeley's Knob, ...