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J-List will be at the San Diego Comic-Con this year in booth 4929, in the "Anime Alley" part of the ...

As the new anime season progresses, I've been doing my best to keep up with the major series, and mostly ...

In addition to trying to revive the Japanese economy through his "Abenomics" reforms (which have had the effect of making ...

The concept of 萌え moé can be quite deep. Coined around 1993 in response to (according to one theory) the ...

It’s sakura time in Japan right now, as cherry blossoms around the country explode in beautiful fireworks of pink. Being ...

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, when millions of Japanese males will wake up hoping to receive chocolate from their wives, girlfriends, ...

It's interesting to analyze the humorous visual elements animators use to make their characters seem more alive. Like a character ...

I was having trouble deciding what to write for today's post, so I decided to ask J-List's Facebook and Twitter ...

Recently I started watching the latest Bakemonogatari sequel, called Tsukimonogatari, which is a great series for fans of both high ...

We hope everyone is enjoying the J-List Holiday Sale, which we started early, to give customers more time to receive ...

I like exploring the sources of various memes that exist in Japan, like the time I researched the origin or ...

I'm often asked what Japanese fans think of the global explosion in the popularity of anime, manga and Japanese games. ...

Hello from Anime Expo 2014, the premier anime convention in the U.S.! We're all ready to have a great time ...

A few posts ago I wrote about how high schools in Japan often come in girls- and boys-only varieties, though ...

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

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

There are some things you say when you live in Japan that you'd certainly never utter back home. For example, ...

Maid cafes have become one of the more famous images of modern Japan, and when foreigners visit Akihabara they'll often ...

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

When manga and anime creators go to design a new character, they have many options available to them. They might ...

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

Over the weekend I caught the last three episodes of Ore no Imouto ga Konna Kawaii Wake Ga Nai, aka ...

I saw a report in the news that said that 40% of private universities in Japan had failed to fill ...

I finally made time to finish the second season of Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, ...