Tag: manga

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 ...

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, ...