Tag: manga

One thing I love about the Japanese is their tendency towards obsession. Whether it's collecting and displaying anime figures, filling ...

I saw in a news article that the word hikikomori (pronounced "hee-kee koh-moh-ree") had officially found its way into the ...

There are many ways of approaching the study of Japanese. You can follow the traditional approach, studying with Japanese textbooks ...

Unfortunately I'm not able to attend Otakon, the awesome East-Coast anime convention, this year. But that doesn't mean you can't ...

Suki desu ka? One of the first useful words a student of Japanese learns is how to say "like" (suki), ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Japan's invasion of the Korean peninsula, which started a 35 year period during ...

I see that some of Japan's manga publishers are finally taking action against websites that allow large-scale downloading of their ...

For some reason, gaijin always seem to remember the first words of Japanese we learn. In my case it was ...

The rise of manga and anime has brought the West into contact with some interesting Japanese visual conventions. I remember ...

It's funny how words move from one language group to another in this hyper-connected world we live in. Like the ...

Perhaps my favorite aspect of anime and manga is the way they allow fans to access various emotions, from boy-meets-moe ...

Manga are the famous comics that have come to define Japan around the world, although Japanese above a certain age ...

I recently watched an anime called She, The Ultimate Weapon (aka Saikano: The Last Love Song on This Little Planet), ...

Japanese marrying partners from other countries is called kokusai kekkon, and it's viewed by many here as an alternative choice ...

The Japanese certainly do like to dream big and build even bigger, and some of the projects they've come up ...

Anime and manga are extremely visual media which communicate strong emotions through meticulously designed characters. To make their creations more ...

Like other languages, Japanese comes in various dialects. Some of these are regional, like "standard" Tokyo speech or the more ...

J-List sells a ton of unique and wacky products from Japan, which I like to dig through for you. We ...

Well, we're back in Japan after the approximately 20-hour door-to-door journey from San Diego. We had a great time in ...

Manga are the famous Japanese comics that have come to define Japan around the world. Literally meaning "whimsical pictures," the ...

I've always thought my life would make a good basis for a 4-koma (4-panel) manga, perhaps called "Papa wa Gaikoujin" ...

When I came to Japan in 1991, I brought with me a large body of knowledge of Japan's popular culture, ...

Because the Japanese generally study six years of English during junior high and high school, there's a tendency for English ...

Today we made our final 2010 calendar order, which is always a challenge for us. Would we have enough of ...