Tag: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Greetings from J-List! We're here at the San Diego Comic-Con at booth 4929, at far end of "anime alley." We hope ...

Today is World Redhead Day, so I thought I'd write a post presenting the best 15 redhead anime girls, based ...

Olympic Skaters Cosplay Madoka and Homura on Ice Cosplay has always been a staple when it comes to anime, manga, ...

FREEing has recently revealed details about the upcoming nendoroid of Mami Tomoe dressed as a gorgeous Maiko! from the Mahou ...

One of the special Madoka x Monogatari crossover prize figures has returned, with Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica's Homura Akemi trying ...

As with most other countries, the basis of Japan’s capitalist economy is land ownership, and there are many legal mechanisms ...

I'm often asked "hey Peter, what's your favorite anime?" Since I've been an active anime fan for 35+ years (and ...

Names in Japanese are interesting, so I thought I'd write about how they work. Japanese names are generally written with ...

Google has radically changed the way we get information, and if you have a question about something -- say, about ...

Welcome to the new J-List blog, where you can read archives of Peter's posts, past and present, going all the ...

One thing I've always been impressed with is the "cultural footprint" of Japan, which is just a small country in ...

I've been a fan of science fiction ever since I picked up the Ray Bradbury short story "Frost and Fire," ...

Today is Valentine's Day, and wherever you are in the world we wish you all the best chocolate dreams. Just ...

When I came to Japan back in 1991, Terminator 2: Judgment Day was playing in theaters, the first George Bush ...

I saw a report on Bloomberg that talked about anime as "Japan's most influential export" in the 21st century, as ...

Japan is buzzing over the enactment of a new Secrets Protection Act which threatens prison terms for government employees or ...

The other day I watched the movie Psycho for the first time. The reason was that Tomo, the Japanese staffer ...

Hello again from "the land of kawaii and sugoi," Japan! We're in full Christmas mode around here, with the hardworking ...

There are many things about the Japanese that can cause foreigners to scratch our heads in confusion, and I thought ...

When you study a foreign language, it's natural to want to learn the "naughty" words first, but there's just one ...

The new Madoka Magica movie opened this weekend, so naturally I made time to go see it. Whereas the first ...

One of my first impressions of the Japanese people as I was growing up was that they love photography and ...

Like everyone, I'm a big fan of using Internet search to artificially raise my IQ, finding information or verifying it ...

When dealing with other languages there's plenty of potential for words that are similar in sound to become confused in ...