Tag: memes

The new Macross Frontier "Wings of Goodbye" (Sayonara no Tsubasa) movie opened yesterday, and being a dedicated Japan blogger and ...

Tuesday is an auspicious day for the Web: the 10th anniversary of the "All Your Base are Belong To Us" ...

Being an American in Japan has been a good opportunity to learn more about...England. Yes, Japan has always had a ...

Part of the fun of watching anime is enjoying all the wacky memes that are created, from the venerable girl-with-toast-in-mouth-rushing-off-to-school ...

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

I write a lot about the different memes that come along in Japan, and how they interact with the Internet ...

There are a lot of good things about living in Japan. Good food, from sushi to sashimi to Indian curry. ...

There are times when Japanese as a language is surprisingly easy. While poor Japanese people have to memorize the names ...

When you first start to watch anime, you naturally encounter concepts that seem strange. Like those funny blue lines that ...

I'm still getting caught up on all the anime series I wasn't able to watch while in the U.S. My ...

"If there's a bright center to Britain, Number Four Privet Drive is the street that it's farthest from." I recently ...

One subject that's always fascinated me has been the tendency of Japanese singers to mix English lyrics in with Japanese ...

Coming to live in Japan means remapping some of the English words in your brain to fit the way the ...

"You've been in Japan too long when NHK warnings about landslides, heavy rains, and other disasters make you feel reassured ...

Anime and manga are extremely visual media which communicate strong emotions through meticulously designed characters. To make their creations more ...

My wife is a very happy woman, thanks to NHK, Japan's version of the BBC and the Domo-kun people. Every ...

J-List is a wonderful window to Japan on the web. Some awesome items you might consider this gift-giving season include ...

We like to call J-List "a wonderful toybox of things from Japan," and we do have an awful lot of ...

There are many reasons that Japanese animation has grown popular in nearly every corner of the world, including the uniqueness ...

Over the weekend I had some fun with my copy of Macross Ultimate Frontier, a superb game for the Sony ...

Being an American in Japan has been a good opportunity to learn more about...England. Yes, Japan has always had a ...

Today is a special day for Domo-kun, the super-cute Japanese monster character who's become so popular throghout the Internet: it's ...

I like to read sci-fi novels with mind-bogglingly big ideas in them. One series I enjoyed was the Uplift Saga ...

"Even monkeys fall from trees." This is one of the many bits of wisdom you can glean by studying Japanese ...