Tag: manga

I'm a fan of the Nichijou anime and manga series, and was even before I discovered that, through a huge ...

These days nearly all anime is "filmed" in a real location, and you have a car and an obsessive personality, ...

Recently I wote about the anime and light novel series Kore wa Zombie desu ka? and I thought I'd give ...

Well, my long sojourn in the U.S. is finally at an end, and I'm returning to Japan with my son ...

When manga and anime creators go to design a new character, they have many personality types to start from. They ...

Japanese is a very subtle language, and I thought it'd be interesting to examine the many ways you can express ...

It's funny how culture crisscrosses the globe, never stopping at such laughable things as national borders as it flows to ...

I'm up here in Big Bear, about 2-3 hours from the Los Angeles and San Diego areas. It's very similar ...

Flying to the U.S. I passed through Narita International Airport, the principle air terminal for people in the Tokyo area ...

Japan is a very different place from the U.S., and during my years as an ESL teacher I often found ...

Recently I was getting all nostalgic with my Twitter followers about how things have changed for anime fans over the ...

One of the more enjoyable aspects of learning a foreign language like Japanese is what I call the "joy of ...

Japan certainly has the power to confuse us with strange and wonderful things, and Japanese popular culture can be very ...

Should anime have a message? It's an interesting question which was recently taken up on Japan's 2ch BBS. If you're ...

Does language influence how we perceive the world? It's certainly an interesting question, and one that I sometimes bat around ...

One aspect of living in Japan is constantly being surrounded by cute images, a fact I was reminded of this ...

I like analyzing the little cultural memes I see in Japan, for example what kinds of things are considered "romantic" ...

It's interesting, the subtle things you can pick up from anime, which go beyond the story you're watching. I recently ...

Learning a foreign language is a difficult thing, and to do it properly you frankly need to get a little ...

It must be strange, having a professional otaku for a dad. Just by living in Japan, my kids (daughter aged ...

I started watching the new anime MoshiDora, also known as Moshi Nihon no Joshi Manager ga Drucker no 'Management' o ...

The other day I reached for some saltine crackers and found myself smirking at the name on the package: "Mornin' ...

When new Japanese employees come to work at J-List it's an interesting learning experience for them. First of all, they're ...

When you study a foreign language, the first thing you usually learn are the "naughty" words -- that's just human ...