Tag: manga

I write a lot about how Japanese is a vague, nuanced language that can create some challenges for Westerners trying ...

It can be interesting to analyze the themes used in anime and manga. In many series, the stories are built ...

Today one of my Twitter followers asked me, "How did you learn Japanese?" That's quite a big topic, of course, ...

We all have fond memories of childhood which make us natsukashii, a word that roughly means "that makes me so ...

I saw that NBC and SyFy has cancelled Stargate: Universe series after two seasons. Since I'm currently (and belatedly) watching ...

Japan is a very different country from the United States, with its own unique culture and traditions, and one thing ...

Anime as a whole has proved remarkably adept at insinuating itself in the hearts and minds of fans all over ...

There's a class of four-kanji compound word called yoji-jukugo which are used in Japanese quite a lot. Rather than disliking ...

J-List carries a lot of awesome artbooks from Japan, including all the best anime artbooks, and no matter what you ...

If you visit the Lumine Man department store in Shibuya you'll find something pretty cool: a huge display of Evangelion ...

I'm a big fan of the anime and manga High School of the Dead, a story about a group of ...

The word otaku has come to represent the culture both in Japan and around the world of embracing awesomely nerdy ...

Will you be attending the New York Comic Convention/Anime Festival? If so be sure to drop by booth 2651. J-List's ...

Over the weekend I went to my daughter's bunka-sai or school culture festival. Anyone who's watched more than a few ...

J-List specializes in awesome magazines from Japan, and our popular Revolving Magazine Subscriptions service -- which lets you get your ...

One of the more popular anime series from the 1980s was the Lovely Angels, I mean Dirty Pair, the story ...

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 ...