Tag: Sailor Moon

Buying a new car in Japan is a bit different from what you might be used to. First of all, ...

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

Time seems to be flowing backwards in the anime world these days, with classic old shows like Space Battleship Yamato ...

It can be fun to try and trace the origins of anime-related memes. For example, if you use the phrase ...

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

One common theme in anime is the dramatic and/or humorous tension that arises when girls are attracted to other girls. ...

There are a lot of unique fashions that are either created or enriched by Japan's anime subculture world, like the ...

As a student of Japanese pop culture, I like to observe how 2D characters evolve and change with each new ...

One of the best things to happen to anime fandom has been the rise of the fangirl. Back in the ...

If the anime of the 80s can be summed up as stories about mankind's grand future in space (Gundam, Macross, ...

I write often about Japan's love for kawaii (cute) culture, which has come to define the country as much as ...

Happy Moe Day! Due to the way the kanji for moe looks like the characters for "10-month 10-day" or October ...

Recently I was getting all nostalgic with my Twitter followers about how things have changed for anime fans over the ...

One thing I can say about living in Japan is, it has made me appreciate the amazing variety of delicious ...

Last time I discussed the words wabi and sabi, two poetic terms from Zen Buddhism which basically tell us to ...

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 ...

The rise of manga and anime has brought the West into contact with some interesting Japanese visual conventions. I remember ...

Getting into anime means exposing yourself to a world of new ideas, some of which might be potentially confusing at ...

I've always thought my life would make a good basis for a 4-koma (4-panel) manga, perhaps called "Papa wa Gaikoujin" ...

I wrote recently about the "peace" sign that the Japanese are fond of making whenever they see a camera, despite ...

The other day my son and I were watching an NHK documentary on penguins and elephant seals living on King ...

Sometimes I think my family would make the basis for an interesting anime series, along the lines of Darling wa ...

Well, Otakon is over, and it was a real blast. As the premier anime convention on the East Coast, it's ...

My son and I continue to enjoy our mini-vacation here in Baltimore, and it's been fun to watch his reactions ...