Tag: eroge

Since 1996 J-List has been working to create a market for English-translated visual novels from Japan, also called eroge, "gal" ...

Well, the U.S. election is almost upon us, and if you're sick of being bombarded with political messages and 24-hour ...

One subject I write about a lot is the way learning a foreign language helps you to understand your own ...

One thing I love about anime is its ability to affect viewers emotionally, often with characters so tragic they're almost ...

J-List has a popular Facebook page as well as a Twitter feed, and I sometimes like to throw out questions ...

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 ...