Tag: manga

I write a lot about language because I find it interesting on several levels, and I really can't think of ...

Over the summer I had a lot of fun taking my son to Hakodate, the city on the southern tip ...

During my time in Japan, I've been able to observe some of the more interesting traits of the females around ...

At J-List, we like to encourage interest in learning Japanese, since it's such a rewarding language to study whether you're ...

I wrote recently about the "peace" sign that the Japanese are fond of making whenever they see a camera, despite ...

I've achieved a small milestone in my life, finally finishing the first manga I ever picked up. The series was ...

Tragedy has struck the manga world with the sad loss of Yoshito Usui, who died after falling a terrifying 300 ...

When you start to watch anime, you naturally encounter some concepts that may seem strange at first. Like those giant, ...

I write a lot about the Japanese concepts of senpai, an upperclassman in a school or a senior in an ...

It's funny how the Internet can bring out the best and the worst in people, and all of us seem ...

We're done with the first day of Anime Expo, and have spent the day meeting and greetings thousands of J-List ...

Japan's archeology world is buzzing after evidence that an ancient burial mound near Nara may have contained Queen Himiko, the ...

If you watch anime in Japanese at all, one word you will probably become aware of quickly is suki which ...

The most common word for "foreigner" in Japanese is gaijin, written with the characters for outside + person, although since ...

There are many things that American houses have which their Japanese counterparts lack, and vice-versa. A Japanese home will generally ...

One interesting aspect of Japan is its closer cultural relationship to its nearby neighbor, China, the ultimate origin of practically ...

Words carry different meanings to different people. For example, the most common word for steamed white rice in Japanese is ...

I remember reading through old Saint Seiya manga back in college, wondering why they always write the blood type of ...

Being an anime fan means more than just enjoying pretty moe girls and watching robots battle each other: it's a ...

Japanese films (houga) are a unique genre of cinema that I'm fascinated with, and whenever I watch one I'm captivated ...

It seems there's no aspect of Japan that can't be made more kawaii. Whether it's a big, faceless bank adopting ...

Japanese animation is fun for people from all over the world because the stories appeal to us even though we ...

There's an interesting category of vocabulary words made up of four kanji characters, which probably represents a grammatical construction left ...

Moé (pronounced mo-EH) is one of the primary concepts driving much of the anime world today, essentially occupying an entire ...