Tag: Gundam

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 ...

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 ...

One of the major themes of the past three decades of animation in Japan has been the movement away from ...

One show I've been enjoying this season has been Rinne no Lagrange, a fun-fun moe mecha anime with some yuri ...

When it comes to anime, there are two sides to my personality. On the one hand, I make a point ...

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

Over the years my son and I have had a great father-and-son relationship with Mobile Suit Gundam, watching the various ...

It's fun to deconstruct random elements of anime, for example...dads! Fathers in anime come in many shapes and sizes, and ...