Author: John

After nearly 21 years in development and three years of writing, I’m now finally satisfied to consider my first original light novel, Bloody Angel, finished. In order to

Back in 2001, the creativity expressed via the animation and direction depicting the casual ease with which Yomiko Readman uses her power during her first action sequence in

In 2004 while I was sitting in a hotel room with Hideyuki Kurata & Koji Masunari, they asked me what anime I was presently following. They nodded and

At least once I had to catch a ride to a grocery store at 9 or 10pm to purchase blank VHS tapes because someone had come by to

After I announced AN Entertainment’s acquisition of Miami Guns at the 2002 Anime Expo convention, Bandai Entertainment manager Jerry Chu approached me and expressed congratulations and surprise that

Once I rode my bicycle 64 miles round-trip from South St. Petersburg to South Tampa in order to rent anime VHS tapes from the Kotobuki Oriental Market.

All these years later, still being regretful that I never got around to buying this Maison Ikkoku wall poster when I had the chance:

Is “dourer” actually a word? Dictionary.com, Merriam-Webster, and Vocabulary.com all redirect “dourer” to “dour” and don’t list “dourer” as a valid adverb or predicate adjective conjugation. However, Microsoft

On the last day of my first AnimeNation-sponsored purchasing trip to Tokyo, I was so exhausted, and my bags filled with production cels were so heavy, that I

The concluding three books of Takashi Ikeda’s high school lesbian romance drama Whispered Words come together in One Peace Books’ hefty 480-page third omnibus volume. Just as the

Sending my first mail-order purchase to the San Jose-based Japanese gift shop Nikkaku Animart on April 2, 1989. The order was for 2 Dirty Pair shitajiki, the first

Countless hours debating with friends over whether or not Kia Asamiya and Michitaka Kikuchi were the same person. (For the record, they are.)

I’m starting to see the end of my theoretically final revision of Bloody Angel. I’ve been slowly re-reading and fleshing out the manuscript lately. I’m now 265 pages

I’m pretty certain that I was at an Anime Weekend Atlanta convention in the early 2000s when I convinced a dealer to drop the sales tax and sell

On an AnimeNation sponsored purchasing trip to Tokyo, I was sitting on a train beside LT, one of AnimeNation’s Japanese business associates and my volunteer translator. I recollect