Tag: Neon Genesis Evangelion

A couple days ago the news hit that Japan's economy had declined for the second straight quarter, officially slipping into ...

It's funny how Japan can seem technologically advanced in some areas but behind the times in others. Apple's new payment ...

Hello again from J-List. We're making the final preparations for Anime Expo this week. It's going to be a huge ...

Language is always changing, evolving to fit the needs of the people who use it on a daily basis. One ...

It's time for a new anime season, which is bad news for me as I'm still not done with the ...

We live in a complex world in which everything around us is becoming more and more global, including marriage. My ...

I wrote last week about the general work situation in Japan, which has an impressively low unemployment rate of just ...

One of the more interesting aspects of animation as a medium is the "world building" that creators can do, since ...

Every once in a while Japan does something that makes you stop and say, "wait, what?" Like when they advertised ...

It's fun to examine some of broader categories of anime that exist. There are harem anime like Infinite Stratos and ...

If you want to make an anime drinking game, there are plenty of classic situations you can start with. Like, ...

I write often about how one of the joys of living in Japan is experiencing exceptional service, which is all ...

The anime industry has certainly gone through changes over the years. You could break it down into different eras, perhaps ...

I took a couple of days off this week to travel with an Italian friend of mine to Hakone, a ...

"The distance from Earth to space is the same as from Tokyo to Hakone, about 50 miles/80 km." This was ...

There are some rather unique professions in Japan, from the waitresses who work at cat girl maid cafes to people ...

One of the best things about Japan is the way a foreign visitor will generally never have to feel fear ...

In the same way that the Doctor Who franchise tells stories about sweeping intergalactic events that always happen to center ...

One of the more welcome changes over the last two decades has been the Rise of the Fangirl, which has ...

There's a new Hayao Miyazaki film in theaters right now, and since it's arguably my job to watch anime, I ...

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

We like to think of our little company as a "wonderful toy box of things from Japan" where various products ...

It's fun to analyze the way anime, game and manga companies go about creating characters that will win the hearts ...

One big trend over the past few years has been "otaku marketing," tying product brands to anime series that fans ...