Tag: Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Sometimes it's fun to deconstruct the bizarre "physics" of anime, which violate the laws of the universe we live in ...

This Sunday is the day to do something special for that most excellent of people, your mother. The custom of ...

It's said in Japan that the U.S. is a "horizontal" society (in Japanese, yoko no shakai) while Japan is "vertical" ...

One of the more unique snacks in Japan is taiyaki, essentially a fish-shaped cake made with pancake batter and containing ...

One of the defining features of the Japanese people is humility, known as kenson (ken-sohn). This manifests itself in interesting ...

I sometimes look back with fondness on my college days, and the adventure that was learning Japanese in Mrs. Higurashi's ...