Tag: Harry Potter

Sometimes Mrs. J-List will see me watching anime about high school students half my age one-third my age discussing what ...

Anime Expo starts in a week, and J-List is celebrating early with a huge 300-points-per-$20 sale. Here's how it works: ...

If you follow J-List on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, you'll know I post a lot of interesting fanart from Pixiv ...

I was having trouble deciding what to write for today's post, so I decided to ask J-List's Facebook and Twitter ...

My family has always been very cross-cultural, with my kids equally at home watching Pokemon or the films of Hayao ...

Greetings from Japan! I'm off to Kyoto and Osaka on a business trip, but while I'm gone the hardworking J-List ...

Japan is having its "Obon" Buddhist holidays right now, a solemn time when the spirits of deceased family members are ...

Ender's Game -- or as the Japanese call it, Ender no Game -- finally opened in Japan, so I dragged ...

January marks the start of 受験シーズン (juken season), when thousands of Japanese high school students take the most important tests ...

My kids are haafu, half Japanese and half American, and my wife and I have done our best to ensure ...

My wife and I naturally wanted to raise our two kids to be bilingual in English and Japanese. I always ...

For the average Japanese person, the most difficult thing they'll do in their lives is juken, taking an entrance exam ...

I'm currently re-watching the Lord of the Rings films on Blu-ray in preparation for the coming Hobbit movie. Like other ...

The drama in Japan continues, two weeks after the worst earthquake in the country's history, and every day brings new ...

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

Harry Potter fans are going wild over the new film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, which opened ...

"If there's a bright center to Britain, Number Four Privet Drive is the street that it's farthest from." I recently ...

This has really been an awesome year to be an anime fan in Japan. In addition to the usual stream ...

Well, the San Diego Comic-Con is over, and I'm tired but still exhilarated from all the fun. We learned many ...

The other day I saw my wife watching an American movie that was being shown with Japanese subtitles, although I ...

I've started watching an anime series with the rather unique name of A Certain Magical Index, which is about magic-using ...

I like living in Japan, really I do, but there are some frustrations a poor gaijin must endure. Things you ...

Well, I've completed my return journey, and am safely back in Japan. Whenever people hear I'm flying across the Pacific ...

Well, one weekend and a staggering 150,000 people later, the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con is past. It was a wild ...