Tag: manga

Japan's "anime" industry, of course, is part of a complex network of companies in related but separate industries, all working ...

I'm a fan of otaku culture, both inside Japan and around the world, because it gives anyone who's a fan ...

Google has radically changed the way we get information, and if you have a question about something -- say, about ...

According to the Internet, May is National Onahole Month, a time to treat yourself to some stress relief, so we ...

I've started watching another new anime, called One Week Friends. It's the ridiculously cute story of a boy named Yuki ...

Like many, I'm a big fan of bento, those convenient and delicious Japanese boxed lunches. Said to have evolved from ...

A couple days ago Canadian singer Avril Lavigne released a video for her "Hello Kitty" single, which received flak from ...

When anime and manga creators go to make a new character, they have a lot of basic personality types to ...

Yesterday I headed down to Tokyo with my wife to attend my son's university entrance ceremony, a very proud day ...

One thing I love about Japan's anime and manga world is the way it creates a "pop culture baseline" that's ...

A few posts ago I wrote about how high schools in Japan often come in girls- and boys-only varieties, though ...

One interesting oddity about the Japanese is their odd compulsion with blood types, and I remember reading Saint Seiya manga ...

One thing I like about Twitter and Facebook is the ability to have random conversations with readers, and often when ...

It's fun to examine some of broader categories of anime that exist. There are harem anime like Infinite Stratos and ...

So far the winter 2014 anime season is shaping up to be a good one, with several decent shows I ...

I saw a report on Bloomberg that talked about anime as "Japan's most influential export" in the 21st century, as ...

There are certain things I will never understand about Japan, like their fascination with the number of creases a person ...

It's fun to mark the Japan-related memes that come along over the years, like the rise -- forgive the pun ...

The word 同人誌 doujinshi literally means "same person publication" and refers to an amateur-published work (these days nearly always a ...

The Japanese like nothing more than to be recognized internationally for their achievements, which is why the popularity of anime/manga ...

I took a couple of days off this week to travel with an Italian friend of mine to Hakone, a ...

I've written before about the way Japan-related fandom can be a place where dreams come true. Many of Japan's professional ...

I'm always happy when an anime series manages to be totally fresh and original, rather than yet another moe harem ...

There are many sides to Japanese pop culture, including anime, manga, moe-kei games, and cosplay. Another category with a long ...