Category: Ask John

Question: I was wondering about anime on laser discs. I was thinking about getting a new DVD player, and was considering getting one with a laserdisc player built

Question: I have watched many anime series (Child’s Toy, Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2, Dragonball Z, etc.), and I realize all anime series out there portray fictional characters with

Question: I heard that from a friend that some of the characters of Rurouni Kenshin are actually based on people that once existed in Japan in the late

Question: I’ve noticed that there are a lot of versions of “Journey to the West” (or Saiyuki) stories that have been turned into anime or manga, like Boku

Question: How many volumes are in the anime Bastard, and how did they come up with the name?

Question: What’s all this talk about digital animation in anime? What part is the digital part? Why don’t people like it? In my opinion, it looks pretty good

Question: Ever since the Cartoon Network started airing an uncensored version of (Shin Kidou Senki) Gundam Wing, anime fans have been repeatedly asking them to air more uncensored

Question: Can you really call anime a genre? You do not call English literature and American literature separate genres just because of their origin. Since anime covers a

Question: I have noticed in some anime series a “cutting of hair.” This happens in Ninja Scroll, when Kagero cuts her hair, saying she will join her clan

Question: Why are some anime series so obscenely long? I can name three series- Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, and Urusei Yatsura, that have at least 200 episodes. Now,

Question: What is with these anime fanboys and girls who constantly use single Japanese words when they are saying or writing something in English? Is it just me,

Question: Since Americans love Asian animation so much, are there any Asian followings of American mediums of animation or maybe comic books? I cannot think of any American

Question: Is there really that much difference between subtitled anime and dubbed anime? Some people have told me that dubbed anime has more editing than subbed anime, so

Question: I’ve played a lot of RPGs in my time, and almost every one features the Masamune, which ends up being the most powerful sword in the game.

Question: I heard that a lot of the characters in Dragonball Z are named after foods like Gohan means “rice” or “cooked rice” and that Kuririn means “chestnut.”