Tag: manga

I'm done with my little vacation to Australia, which was loads of fun. Australia is certainly an easy place to ...

The word otaku has come to represent fans of anime, manga and 2D gaming culture, but the word is a ...

Over the weekend I went down to Tokyo to meet with some friends and have Osaka-style kushi-katsu, which is meat ...

Recently I wrote about place names around the world that are famous here because they sound funny in Japanese, the ...

There are some pretty hilarious place names in the world, like Hell, Michigan, Hookersville, West Virginia or Lord Berkeley's Knob, ...

We recently bought dot matrix printer, of all things, which is needed to automate shipping of EMS orders (the forms ...

I often write about the kokumin-sei or "national character" of the Japanese. By and large they're a harmonious people, preferring ...

Because of the popularity of anime and manga, certain aspects of Japan's popular culture have spread across the globe, and ...

It's fun to observe the way visual memes move from one anime series to the next, always evolving and changing ...

There are many ways to help a program of Japanese study be successful, including taking an active interest in popular ...

Yesterday I went to Akihabara on business, which is always more fun than sitting behind a computer screen at the ...

One thing I like about learning a foreign language is the insight I gain into my own brain. For example, ...

One thing I've noticed about the Japanese: they're very good at is appreciating nostalgia, and on any given day you're ...

One of the more interesting trends over the past decade or so has been the rise of serious fangirls, called ...

One of the best things about raising kids in Japan is shichi-go-san (literally "7, 5, 3"), a special time when ...

I write often about Japan's love for kawaii (cute) culture, which has come to define the country as much as ...

Ever since the word "idol" (aidoru) entered the language in 1971, Japan has had a weakness for kawaii female idols. ...

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

J-List is located in Gunma Prefecture, a ho-hum place 100 km north of Tokyo that's famous for...well, nothing, really. Gunma ...

October is an auspicious month here at J-List. It's our birthday, and a special one this year since it's our ...

For students of foreign languages, whether Japanese working hard to learn English or us gaijin studying Japanese, success often comes ...

There are many bizarre visual jokes in anime, which probably look odd to Western viewers at first. Characters getting a ...

The other day I caught a CNN blog post about the term otaku, and whether it was a positive or ...

September means the start of university, and I've got quite a few readers in my Twitter feed who have just ...