Tag: Gainax

The anime industry has certainly gone through changes over the years. You could break it down into different eras, perhaps ...

I took a couple of days off this week to travel with an Italian friend of mine to Hakone, a ...

"The distance from Earth to space is the same as from Tokyo to Hakone, about 50 miles/80 km." This was ...

In the same way that the Doctor Who franchise tells stories about sweeping intergalactic events that always happen to center ...

One of the more welcome changes over the last two decades has been the Rise of the Fangirl, which has ...

There's a new Hayao Miyazaki film in theaters right now, and since it's arguably my job to watch anime, I ...

It's time for a new anime season, even though I still haven't caught up with the previous one. There are ...

Well, we're done with another Anime Expo, and this one was loads of fun as usual. We greeted many fans ...

We like to think of our little company as a "wonderful toy box of things from Japan" where various products ...

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

One big trend over the past few years has been "otaku marketing," tying product brands to anime series that fans ...

Japan is a land of fast-moving fashion trends, and you never know what the next fad will be. One week ...

One of the more interesting aspects of Japan is its free-spirited culture of doujinshi, which are comics and related works ...

This weekend saw the release of the new Evangelion movie "You Can (Not) Redo," which continues the "Rebuild of Evangelion" ...

All languages change and evolve over time, and Japanese is certainly no different. There was no written language in Japan ...

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

One of the best things to happen to anime fandom has been the rise of the fangirl. Back in the ...

It's a glorious time for me as an anime fan, thanks to the new Space Battleship Yamato series that started ...

The other night I found myself randomly surfing Japanese late-night TV to see what was on. First was a TV ...

Sunday is Mother's Day, a day to do something nice for that very special mom in your life. It's also ...

I happened to see a news article that said the president of Nippon Sheet Glass, an American, was leaving the ...

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

One thing I've noticed about the Japanese: they're very good at is appreciating nostalgia, and on any given day you're ...

The autumn crop of keitai denwa (cellular phones) has been announced by Japan's major phone makers, so I thought I'd ...