Tag: manga

Do you live in the Los Angeles area? If so we hope to see you at the upcoming Anime Impulse ...

Today we’ll be taking a look at one of Japan’s most popular anime magazines, the February 2017 issue of Megami ...

Happy New Year from your Friend in Japan®, J-List! We hope 2017 is a peaceful and happy hear for you ...

One of my hobbies is investigating the origins of random elements of fandom and reporting on them here. Like the ...

One type of anime that's quite fun to watch are those that "deconstruct" their genres, tearing down or otherwise providing ...

I like the recent trend in shows like Shirobako, New Game! and Sore ga Seiyu, which give us a glimpse ...

Japan is currently experiencing a huge boom in tourism, with an incredible 20 million visiting the country from all over ...

I've been on a health kick for a couple of years, taking 4km walks and hitting the gym twice a ...

It's interesting to observe the way trends in anime rise and fall. One season might see several similar "harem" shows, ...

The Japanese language is different from English in many ways, including the way information can be left out of sentences ...

As the current anime season wraps up, I'm rushing to finish the shows in my queue as quickly as I ...

One of the more unique aspects of Japan is the country's racial homogeneity, with approximately 98.5% of the country identifying ...

Hello from your Friend in Japan, J-List! The San Diego Comicon is upon us (we're at booth 4929!), but if ...

One of the more important areas of life in Japan is gift-giving, and there are many traditions of giving presents, ...

It's fun to look up odd place names, like Intercourse, Pennsylvania, Climax, Michigan, or Le Tampon, France. Naturally, there's a ...

Japan is a mysterious country which can be hard to figure out sometimes. One of my hobbies is to use ...

I'm safely back in Japan after the 16 hour door-to-door hop from San Diego. Whenever I come back to Japan ...

Yesterday I took a day off to take my daughter to Tokyo Disney Sea, because no one ever says "I ...

J-List is based in Isesaki, a city of 200,000 in Gunma Prefecture that's pretty much in the exact center of ...

One anime I'm a fan of is Kin'iro Mosaic, a slice-of-life moe show about Shinobu, a Japanese girl in love ...

Late-night Japanese TV can be fun to watch. The other day I caught a program called "Can We Go To ...

As I write often, one of the things the Japanese love more than anything is receiving recognition from the International ...

One of the more interesting trends of the past decade has been "moe anthropomorphism," the practice of taking real-world objects ...

Although I love anime, I naturally have a few pet peeves about it, too. Like when I get emotionally invested ...