Tag: manga

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 ...

A new anime season is upon us, and I'm doing my best to keep up with the flood of new ...

When manga and anime creators go to design a new character, they have many options available to them. They might ...

Anime is filled with fun tropes and memes. One that comes up in romantic comedy series is the 間接キス kansetsu ...

I received a request in my Twitter feed from a customer who was studying Japanese in preparation for a visit ...

I continue to enjoy Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!, aka No Matter How I Look ...

I've written before that, while anime and manga can be useful tools for studying Japanese, it's important to avoid relying ...

It can be fun to try and trace the origins of anime-related memes. For example, if you use the phrase ...

Otaku, of course, is a word that's come to describe aficionados of anime, manga, visual novels and cosplay, although it's ...