Tag: eroge

We've been eating well at home lately, with delicious ham and fresh mangoes and other good things. The reason is ...

I've written before about my amusing interactions with Tomo, the J-List employee who keeps our site stocked with DVDs, import ...

It's fun to pay attention to the visual memes that show up in anime series. For example, if a boy ...

One Twitter user asked me, "Is it true that coming from Japan to America feels like traveling 20 years back ...

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

Today is Geek Pride Day, a special day for all of us to celebrate the nerdier side of life, from ...

I often think the themes in anime and games must be potentially confusing to some viewers, even when everything is ...

It's fun to observe how the visual elements of anime character design change and evolve from season to season. Animators ...

J-List takes our mission of bringing delightful Japanese products to you very seriously, and whether it's rare and unique flavors ...

You wouldn't think a simple word like "friend" could be a potentially complex linguistic concept, but in Japan you might ...

One of the more enjoyable aspects of watching anime in the 21st century is seichi junrei or "making a pilgrimage ...

Perhaps it comes from my long years translating and selling visual novels, Japan's interactive multi-story love-simulation games, but it's my ...

You probably now that J-List has long been involved with translating and selling Japanese visual novels, called eroge or H-games ...

I'm currently enjoying the second season of Amagami, an anime based on a popular PS2 game in which you get ...

If the anime of the 80s can be summed up as stories about mankind's grand future in space (Gundam, Macross, ...

Well, the first season of the I Have Few Friends anime has ended, although I wish it would go on ...

Anime is a funny place, where characters can have the most outrageous hair colors like pink or blue or blonde, ...

Want to know how to fluster a Japanese person? Ask them to pronounce difficult English words, such as "jewelry," which ...

Sometimes it's fun to learn how concepts in one language are implemented in another. One word of Japanese I like ...

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

Well the Steins;Gate TV series has finally ended, and I enjoyed it a lot. As a card-carrying fan of any ...

One of the highlights of Anime Expo was having the president of famed game and anime creator Nitroplus come out ...

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

I've made the hop from Japan to San Diego so I can join in on the fun at Anime Expo ...