Category: Ask John

Question: Is it just me, or was there not a single word about Strike Witches 2 in the American fan community last season? Did all the hype die

Question: I’ve been away from the R1 anime DVD scene for the past few years and want to get back into it. Is there anything I would just

Question: After reading the latest preview to some show, which included a line saying “revolves around an exceptional student attending an elite school for geniuses,” I can’t help

Question: Is South Park considered loli and ecchi? A lot of people are embarrassed to admit they watch shows like Mitsudomoe because people might label them as pedos.

Question: Is J.C. Staff overdoing it? Are they going to end up like Gonzo? It seems to me that J.C. Staff is making more and more series. This

Question: Having recently listed my nominations of the finest anime television series from 2000 to 2010, I thought that a similar list of the decade’s most unrecognized and

Question: Like many of your readers, I have really enjoyed reading your answers to the year review-type questions, and have found them tremendously helpful in deciding what shows

Question: My friends keep insisting that My-HiME is a “deconstruction of the magical girl genre” that parodies all of the genre’s major tropes. Admittedly I’ve only seen a

Question: In mid-2009 Gonzo’s stock was finally delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange when the company’s total liabilities were revealed to exceed their total financial assets. From a

Question: For a variety of reasons, I have long since lost all interest in anime and manga. I loved Maison Ikkoku and Kimagure Orange Road and wanted to

Question: Having recently discovered the “fake Mai-Hime Movie” trailer featured as an extra (omake) on one of the DVDs of the My-Otome TV series – if it were

Question: I fail to understand why so many people are such rabid fans of the anime Azumanga Daioh. I mean to me it just looks like a cheap

Question: Why did Hanamaru Kindergarten and Chu-Bra! do so poorly? I heard both of these sold pretty low numbers in Japan.

Question: I came across this question and thought it was interesting. When was the last time a mecha anime actually contributed something completely original? That’s right, over 40

Question: Why is fanservice getting blamed for the downfall of anime. All I hear these day is how ecchi fanservice/harem show is killing the industry, why is that.