Tag: Macross

Idol anime series are all the rage, and for good reason. Cute anime idols are great. They sing, they dance, ...

The Gundam franchise is Japan’s Star Wars: a huge media entity built on a space opera. Star Wars — later ...

Whose was the first Japanese-language voice you encountered when you started getting into anime? Which character’s voice introduced you to ...

Studio Satelight is bringing sukeban (delinquent girls) back in its newest series, Rokudo’s Bad Girls. This isn’t the first series ...

One of the ways we knew there was something "different" about anime is when we saw our first anime kiss ...

Do you see yourself in anime? Do the characters represent you? Stereotypes and caricatures were used to stand for non-Japanese ...

I recently wrote a post about Japan's top anime studios, which explored the background of each company and how they ...

I sometimes like to look back over the 26+ years I've run J-List to see how technology and software have ...

Ever since discovering the Ray Bradbury short story Frost and Fire at age ten, I've been an avid reader of ...

Japanese anime seiyuu work long hours and probably don't have much time to meet people outside their industry. So it's ...

The early 80s was an exciting time for anime. The explosion in popularity caused by Urusei Yatsura brought us many ...

While it's fun being an anime fan, enjoying our shared popular culture online, sometimes we have to interface with "normies" ...

One of the defining elements of storytelling in anime is that — in sharp contrast to anything we had in ...

Spring is in the air... and what better time to contemplate the wonderful subject of love! There are many reasons ...

It's considered one of the most influential anime series of all time. Macross — or Robotech: The Macross Saga as ...

I went to see the second Seitokai Yakuindomo film that was recently released. I went to see the movie — ...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone around the world! 2020 has been a challenging year for all of us, ...

Although we're all united in our shared love of anime and related categories of sub-culture today, each of us took ...

There are many reasons why all of us were called to become anime fans, different routes we all took that ...

Yesterday fans learned of the sad death of Keiji Fujiwara, who provided the voice of Hiroshi Nohara, father to the adorable ...

What is the best anime movie? That's got to be an impossible question to answer because we could never agree ...

One of the first Japanese words many of us encountered was senpai, which means a person who's in a higher grade ...

As a longtime anime fan, it's fun to follow different anime directors and writers and animators and see how they ...

The trend in large "torso type" onahole products from Japan continues, allowing the most realistic experience in a stress toy ...