Tag: memes

Anime is filled with fun tropes and memes. One that comes up in romantic comedy series is the 間接キス kansetsu ...

I write a lot about memes because they're an interesting form of communication in the 21st century. Memes, of course, ...

It can be fun to try and trace the origins of anime-related memes. For example, if you use the phrase ...

I continue to enjoy Space Battleship Yamato 2199, the reboot of the classic 1974 anime that was responsible for calling ...

There are a lot of unique fashions that are either created or enriched by Japan's anime subculture world, like the ...

Well, we're done with another Anime Expo, and this one was loads of fun as usual. We greeted many fans ...

It's well known that the Japanese love rice, and eat it with nearly every meal, but they're no slouches when ...

Ever since that dancing CG baby and "All Your Base Are Belong to Us," the Internet has run on memes, ...

Like other forms of media, there are many types of stories to be found in anime, including love comedy, various ...

Well the Phoenix Comicon is over, and I'm back in San Diego. The show was a blast, and we had ...

I've been a long-time student of Internet memes, and I enjoy posting them to J-List's Twitter and Facebook pages when ...

I've been a student of Japanese since that first day in 1987 when I started Higurashi-sensei's class at SDSU. (There ...

There are many reasons to like a given anime series, including a truly fresh story approach, characters with endearing moe ...

I've written before about how one of the least enjoyable aspects of living in Japan is having to be so ...

I've got a few hobbies, including reciting lines from all Tom Hanks movies in a Forrest Gump voice and trolling ...

One thing I had to get used to as an American living in Japan was how British things could be ...

It's fun to analyze different memes (anime-related or otherwise) as they evolve and change. While some have wide appeal no ...

Yesterday several J-List staff members and I went to Tokyo Big Sight to check out the International Gift Show, a ...

I'm a fan of Strike Witches, a fun anime that blends cute moe girls with World War II-style mecha and, ...

Well, we've come to the end of another year. 2012 was a great year for us at J-List, with lots ...

Anime, of course, is a collection of fun memes which continually build on story and character concepts established in previous ...

It's time for your lesson in Japanese words you already know, because they have the same pronunciations as English words. ...

Names are important things no matter what country you're in, though in Japan they work a little differently than what ...

It's got to be a challenge for anime creators to come up with fresh and interesting characters for fans to ...