Category: Ask John

Question: Over the past year, I’ve noticed a trend on English anime message boards, for example, 4chan, Anime on DVD, Anime News Network, and others, that users are

Question: What do you think of Lucky Star?

Question: What happened with Tsubasa Chronicle anime? Was it cancelled? Delayed? Which were the reasons behind this? I thought the show was successful enough in Japan and, for

Question: Will there ever be more anime of the original Devilman story? While both Go Nagai and Devilman are very popular names among hardcore anime fans, there still

Question: I did a search, but it looks like no-one’s asked you about an uncut English/Japanese Pokemon being released. Why do you think there hasn’t been one already?

Question: Vampires seem to be pretty popular in anime these days. From the just completed Trinity Blood, the ongoing Moon Phase and Hellsing Ultimate, the upcoming comedic take

Question: The current season [of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha] StrikerS is very marketable. Is there any chance a company would pick up the later series and not the

Question: How much Munto is there? I noticed that this is an original concept. It has no manga or novel that it is going off of, that I

Question: Do you think that, or why do you think that anime in the US is not at all treated like other foreign media is? A lot of

Question: How do you feel about the Bleach anime filler still affecting the original storyline? The Bleach filler is long and over. However, it would appear the filler

Question: I know that there are a lot of copycat movies in the US movie industry, but is there a lot of borrowing between titles in anime, and

Question: I personally wonder if there will ever be an anime adaptation of Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba to! manga. There may be a trend in the anime industry that

Question: I have a question reguarding the OAV “My Dear Marie.” I thought it was good, though a bit cheezy. And I was surprised when the whole thing

Question: Do you think that ADV has a chance of making a dime from their license of Air? It must have been expensive, and it just doesn’t seem

Question: Among all the comments and insults thrown about by everyone involved, do you think any lines were crossed by any of the parties involved? And in the