Tag: Gundam

I've been an anime fan for a long time, long enough to remember attending the monthly anime club meetings at ...

I started watching another anime series recently called Cross Ange, a new offering by Sunrise. Quite a "dark" show – ...

Ever since the rise of "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" 14 years ago, people have been used to ...

The Japanese are big fans of designating certain days as special. May 4th is Ramune Day, commemorating the launch of ...

Language is always changing, evolving to fit the needs of the people who use it on a daily basis. One ...

Japan is having a bit of an investing boom thanks to the introduction of new investment accounts called NISA, Japan's ...

It's time for a new anime season, which is bad news for me as I'm still not done with the ...

When anime and manga creators go to make a new character, they have a lot of basic personality types to ...

I'm a card-carrying old-school anime fan, and over the years I've gotten much enjoyment out of the Mobile Suit Gundam ...

One reason I believe anime became so popular around the world is that it's a medium that's free to tell ...

It's fun to examine some of broader categories of anime that exist. There are harem anime like Infinite Stratos and ...

A couple of updates ago I wrote about the word 常識 joshiki, meaning 'common sense,' and how one of the ...

I write a lot about memes because they're an interesting form of communication in the 21st century. Memes, of course, ...

I continue to enjoy Space Battleship Yamato 2199, the reboot of the classic 1974 anime that was responsible for calling ...

Otaku, of course, is a word that's come to describe aficionados of anime, manga, visual novels and cosplay, although it's ...

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

I watch more than a little late-night Japanese TV, and I enjoy its light- hearted goofiness. The other night I ...

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

This may not exactly come as a surprise, but I love anime fandom. It's a warm and comfortable place filled ...

Everyone has encountered extremely frustrating individuals who hold opinions so bizarre that it makes us wonder how they could be ...

I've been a long-time student of Internet memes, and I enjoy posting them to J-List's Twitter and Facebook pages when ...

One of my favorite aspects of Japan is definitely the train culture here, and it's always fun to take a ...

While quaint shopping arcades are certainly nice, the flip-side of life in Japan is that things can be rather backwards ...

It's fun to analyze different memes (anime-related or otherwise) as they evolve and change. While some have wide appeal no ...