Tag: otaku

Without a doubt, one of the more interesting aspects of anime is the way it uses strong emotions to heighten ...

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

When foreigners visit Japan, they naturally focus on certain areas that stand out to them as unique, like maid cafes ...

If you visit the Lumine Man department store in Shibuya you'll find something pretty cool: a huge display of Evangelion ...

On the weekends I like to go on trips with my family, most often to an onsen (volcanic hot springs) ...

I'm a big fan of the anime and manga High School of the Dead, a story about a group of ...

The word otaku has come to represent the culture both in Japan and around the world of embracing awesomely nerdy ...

Getting Pizza Hut in Japan is always a treat: it is delicious, featuring toppings you can't get anywhere else like ...

J-List loves Japanese snacks, gum and drinks, and we stock hundreds, including fun anime-themed items like the UCC Coffee + ...

One of the more popular anime series from the 1980s was the Lovely Angels, I mean Dirty Pair, the story ...

One thing I love about the Japanese is their tendency towards obsession. Whether it's collecting and displaying anime figures, filling ...

The other day I was sitting in a jacuzzi, pretending I was in a bubbling onsen hot springs bath back ...

About 100 km south of Tokyo there's an interesting resort town called Atami, whose onsen (volcanic hot spring baths) have ...

If you're in the New York area, you might consider checking out the exhibition Samurai in New York: The First ...

I saw in a news article that the word hikikomori (pronounced "hee-kee koh-moh-ree") had officially found its way into the ...

Each language is structured in different ways, and it's fun to learn a little bit about how they work. In ...

One of the coolest things an obsessive anime fan in Japan can do is seichi junrei, e.g. making a "pilgrimage ...

If you watch any anime at all, you'll know the classic story archetype of the "school trip," when all the ...

One interesting thing I've observed about the Japanese is that they love to line up for things. If a Japanese ...

Late-night TV in Japan is always fun to watch, and I like to flip through the channels to see what's ...

Increasingly otaku culture encompassing everything from anime to Miku Hatsune to cosplay is becoming Japan's mainstream culture, at least among ...

Unfortunately the announcement of the new J-List retail shop in Akihabara turned to be an April Fool's joke (heh, even ...

Some big news for J-List fans -- come by our retail store on your next trip to Japan! For Immediate ...

It's interesting how Japanese society divides itself into different tribes, or zoku, which always seem to come with interesting and ...