Category: Ask John

Question: I’m a big fan of Akira Toriyama’s work, and I found out about Dr Slump recently, a title that he worked on before Dragonball. I was wondering

Question: When I was on the internet and looked up Tekkaman Blade, I found 2,371 search results on Lycos, and countless petitions So my question is, if the

Question: I wish to know if there is any real difference between hentai, ecchi, and doujinshi manga. Are any of them in any way more or less *ahem*

Question: When I say “adult” I don’t necessarily mean hentai anime. Pioneer gave us “Catnapped,” and recently Tokyopop gave us “Spring and Chaos,” but that’s about it. Why

Question: I’ve noticed that when a company makes a manga comic into a show, they change the storyline a bit. Why do they do that?

Question: Every website I’ve seen has labelled “Amazing Nurse Nanako” as a fan-service anime, but I’m not so sure about that. This is just so outrageous that I

Question: Do major anime companies look at fansubs as a way to tell what to bring to America? Anime such as Gundam Wing, Card Captor Sakura, Kenshin, Fushigi

Question: Have you seen the anime series called “Noir?” What is this anime story about? Who are the voice actors? What is your opinion on this new series.

Question: How did hentai come about anyway? When I first saw it in a video store I thought it very strange indeed to have animated pornography. I thought

Question: I was wondering why some anime like Neon Genesis Evangelion or Dragon Ball aren’t afraid to push the envelope a little bit in terms of content, whereas

Question: I’m very curious to know what really makes a person become an anime otaku. Do you really need to be into anime to become a real otaku?

Question: What is the implication of the big teardrop that appears behind anime character’s heads. It seams that it’s just when someone is exasperated but there also seems

Question: Here is something that troubles me about introducing new people to anime. It seems to me that a rather alarming amount of anime has scenes of attempted

Question: Just writing to blast your brain and get you to tell me everything you know about D4 Princess. From the first time I saw the opening video

Question: I am looking for non-scifi non-fantasy anime. Hmm… that’s funny. None seem to exist. Are there any mature, character based, realistic anime out there? I want something