Category: Ask John

Question: With shounen anime becoming raunchier with it’s sexual material for children, the line between erotica for young boys and adult men has become blurry. How does one

Question: I know DVD bootlegs are illegal, but what about original import DVDs and import Blu-rays? Are they legal in the U.S.A. to buy, and is it legal

Question: Why is Kodansha holding back on suing ABC over Last Resort? The premise is a blatant rip-off of Silent Service, and yet they appear to be sitting

Question: I recently saw poll results conducted by BigGlobe on Crunchyroll, where the Japanese voted for their most Amazing Anime. The result where not very surprising. I can

Question: Is Hatsune Miku really Lynn Minmay’s offspring? Minmay’s role of savior was inverted by her own creators into Eve in Megazone 23, which returned as a canon-obliterating

Question: For all the complaints that there are too many moé, ecchi, and fanservice shows and not enough sci-fi, action, and mecha shows why is Hana no Utame

Question: What are the best fanservice anime from 70s to the 90s?

Question: What are some examples of anime that lean toward the right of Japanese society or politics. In your answer for “Does Anime Whitewash Japanese History?” question you

Question: I read an interesting blog stating how the most important aspect of design is to make each character unique in body proportions, facial structure, posture and to

Question: My son has a collection of anime and he has been thinking about selling a few to make some money and make room in his storage cabinet

Question: Which moé, harem, lolicon, bishoujo, and hentai anime have the highest production values?

Question: What’s the big deal about seiyuu? I like and respect their works on numerous anime for a long time, but now it seems to be fading away.

Question: Does J.C. Staff fail when it comes to action anime? I find the studio to be a hit and miss studio. I enjoy their light-hearted slice-of-life/comedy shows

Question: I’ve lately been hearing that Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon has a plot which is completely indecipherable as well as being needlessly complex. This has deterred me from

Question: Considering Warner is already re-shooting Gangster Squad in reaction to the violent incident, will the Colorado shooting keep anime with gunplay from being released on domestic North