My Otaku Reconsideration
My Otaku Reconsideration Portrait of an Otaky #1187by Peter R. PayneNote: the following is an article I wrote way back ...
Tag: manga
You’ve Been in Japan Too Long When… (page 3 of 4)
...you keep looking for new copies of Gegege-no-kitaro and Hi-no-tori manga at the local bookstore. ...you have copies of nengajo ...
You’ve Been in Japan Too Long When… (page 4 of 4)
...when you think it might be a groovy idea to get one of those multicolored dragon tattoos on your back ...
Greetings from J-List March 26, 2003
Hello again from Japan, the home of tomato flavored pretzels! Part of Peter's Unified Theory of Japan is that the ...
Greetings from J-List March 24, 2003
Hello from Japan, where you can still find "skin color" crayons sold in stores. It's quite well known that in ...
Greetings from J-List March 21, 2003
Hello from all of us at J-List. We've been busy bees all day and have a great update of products ...
Greetings from J-List March 19, 2003
Hello again from all your friends in Japan! With tensions in Iraq increasing every day, Japanese are nervous about what ...
Greetings from J-List March 17, 2003
Hello again from Japan, home of the world's only indoor skiing facility -- the Ssaws ski slope near Tokyo Disneyland, ...
Greetings from J-List March 14, 2003
Hello, where in children's games like Hide and Seek or Tag, the person who is "it" is referred to as ...
Greetings from J-List March 10, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan!My wife is a member of the Silver Age generation of Japanese animation, having ...
Greetings from J-List March 7, 2003
Hello from Japan, where the word for violence is "rambo." Japan is a long country shaped like a reversed letter ...
Greetings from J-List March 5, 2003
Hello from Japan, the home of yogurt flavored butterscotch candies -- yum. Japan has a new "muscle idol" these days: ...
Greetings from J-List March 3, 2003
Greetings from Japan, where people bow while talking on the phone (I do it too...). There are a lot of ...
Greetings from J-List February 28, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan! Seen a certain way, the Japanese can appear quite superstitious. Certainly, there are ...
Greetings from J-List February 28, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan! Seen a certain way, the Japanese can appear quite superstitious. Certainly, there are ...
Greetings from J-List February 26, 2003
Hello again from Japan, the home of tako-yaki, a delicious ball of batter with octopus inside. Beer is the preferred ...
Greetings from J-List February 24, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan! In general, when movies are released in Japan, there's a gap of a ...
Greetings from J-List February 24, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan! In general, when movies are released in Japan, there's a gap of a ...
Greetings from J-List February 22, 2003
Hello from Japan, where a steak made with ground beef is a "hamburg" and a frankfurter out of its bun ...
Greetings from J-List February 22, 2003
Hello from Japan, where a steak made with ground beef is a "hamburg" and a frankfurter out of its bun ...
Greetings from J-List February 20, 2003
Good evening from Japan, where calories are always corrected labeled as "kikocalories." First of all, sorry for the problems with ...
Greetings from J-List February 12, 2003
Hello again from your friends in Japan! Influenza is on the rise in Japan, and schools all around the country ...
Greetings from J-List February 10, 2003
Greetings from J-List! Want to know a Japanese joke? In Japanese, the word for Prime Minister is "sohri," which sounds ...
Greetings from J-List February 7, 2003
Hello again from all of us in Japan! The word for foreigner in Japanese is "gaijin," written using the characters ...
