Tag: manga

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 ...

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 ...