Tag: ecchi

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, ...

Last time I talked about various ways in which the Japanese custom of taking off shoes while at home has ...

One of the more interesting aspects of Japan is the top-down nature of its society, how it's ostensibly structured in ...

One nice thing about living in Japan is the rail culture here, so very different from the freeway- and automobile-based ...

There are many bizarre visual jokes in anime, which probably look odd to Western viewers at first. Characters getting a ...

I recently watched "Get Lamp," an interesting documentary on the history of text adventure games, going back to the very ...

After living in Japan for nearly two decades, I've made certain observations about the Japanese people. They are, for example, ...

I'm currently catching up on various anime shows, including the hilarious Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Gainax's ribald new anime ...

When a foreigner comes to Japan, they usually try to catalog and analyize all the strange things they see, but ...