Tag: Gundam

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 ...

I write often that anime is a successful medium because it allows viewers to access a wide range of strong ...

Recently I talked about how the members of the wider online community of people fascinated with Japan and its popular ...

When new Japanese employees come to work at J-List it's an interesting learning experience for them. First of all, they're ...

The new Macross Frontier "Wings of Goodbye" (Sayonara no Tsubasa) movie opened yesterday, and being a dedicated Japan blogger and ...

In other news, I'm happy to announce that, okagesama de, my son passed his high school entrance exams. Since his ...

It's official: China has surpassed Japan as the world's second largest economy after the United States, reaching an estimated GDP ...

I saw that NBC and SyFy has cancelled Stargate: Universe series after two seasons. Since I'm currently (and belatedly) watching ...

Anime as a whole has proved remarkably adept at insinuating itself in the hearts and minds of fans all over ...

I write a lot about the different memes that come along in Japan, and how they interact with the Internet ...

One thing I love about the Japanese is their tendency towards obsession. Whether it's collecting and displaying anime figures, filling ...

"If Burger King married Dairy Queen, their child would be Jack in the Box." This bit of wisdom was uttered ...

I've always had an odd affinity for movies released in the year I was born, which was 1968. Three awesome ...

One interesting thing I've observed about the Japanese is that they love to line up for things. If a Japanese ...

Getting into anime means exposing yourself to a world of new ideas, some of which might be potentially confusing at ...

There are two people named Amuro in Japanese popular culture. One of them is Amuro Ray, the young boy who ...

Although Japanese are now quite familiar with images of Christmas presents being delivered by "Santa-san" (as he's usually called) it ...