Tag: idolmaster

If you’re like me, you’ve probably never watched a single Idol M@ster show. Yet somehow, you're intimately familiar with all ...

With so many anime being made, it can be hard to keep up with all of them. Here's a blog ...

It's time for a new issue of Megami Magazine, the top-selling anime magazine from Japan, because they give you so ...

Let's explore the new Idolmaster Million Live! idol anime and see if you should be watching!

Gyaru girls are among the most popular archetypes in anime, just behind cat girls. They dress in flashy clothes to stand ...

The first trailer for the upcoming THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls U149 anime adaptation has appeared, setting the stage for these ...

The monster anime season continues, giving us more great anime series to watch than any I can remember in the ...

One of the fun aspects of anime is the way people from other countries are represented in caricature form. Americans ...

If this isn’t the most spot-on case of one-upmanship I’ve ever seen, I don’t know what is. Earlier this month ...

Anime appears to finally be taking over all aspects of life in Japan if the new McDonald's anime commercial is ...

One thing I love about anime is how it's so easy to connect with it, showing us people, places and ...

Last week Japan's media went into tumult with the announcement that Johnny Kitagawa, the mysterious force behind Japan's most famous ...

We had a site issue which kept product images from showing for several hours over the weekend. If you were ...

One of the most successful ideas in the history of anime has been the creation of stories about idols, which ...

Today is a holiday in Japan called 成人の日 Seijin-no-hi, or Coming-of-Age Day, essentially the day when Japanese who have turned ...

We'd like to wish everyone 良いお年を yoi otoshi o ("have a good crossing into the new year") or 明けましておめでとう akemashite ...

Labels are funny things, and the terms we use to define groups can be interesting to consider. Since every Japanese ...

If America is famous for "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet" (as one TV commercial back in the day ...

One of my favorite aspects of living in Japan is that it's a really honest country. There are many examples ...

I, of course, am a card-carrying language geek, loving the study of language and all its unique aspects and drinking ...

It's funny the way culture reflects language and vice-versa. One phrase you'll hear sometimes in Japanese is 天下の tenka no~, ...

Fall is here in Japan, without a doubt my favorite time of the year since the weather is mild and ...

Food can be an important bridge between cultures, something Yasu and I are certainly learning here in the American South. ...

Japan, of course, is located in Asia -- though sometimes it seems the country would rather be part of Europe ...