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I woke around 7am to the loud noise of workmen demolishing the abandoned house next to ours. Phil came downstairs at ten. So I went upstairs and took

Once again, I had difficulty sleeping. So I left the house at 8:30, taking the Keisei line to Asakusabashi, where I switched to the Chuo local JR train

On the early morning of our first full day in Tokyo, local time ten to six AM on Monday, September 22, I decided that I’d dress and take

For my ninth, I think, trip to Tokyo I was going with former AnimeNation web-monkey Phil, who was visiting Japan for the first time. On the morning of

The history of manga includes no shortage of stories revolving around the unfortunate plights of characters who are so ugly that they’re ostracized, or characters who naturally look

Ask John: Question: Does an anime lose its artistic value given its commercial nature in comparison to originally produced works such as Princess Kaguya or Angel’s Egg? Answer:

I uploaded a new video recording of me sharing my latest collection purchases from Mandarake & Suruga-ya.

Since the 1990s manga has been well populated by skillful teen detectives. Brilliant young investigators appear in Detective Conan, Puppet Master Sakon, The Case Files of Young Kindaichi,

John unboxes over a half-dozen orders from Mandarake & Suruga-ya, including doujinshi, zasshi, tapestries, figures, and more anime oddities.

Although numerous manga stories revolving around disabled characters exist, such stories make up only a small minority of the total number of published manga. So manga about disabled

Question: Do you believe an anime should fade into obscurity, or live on as a joke? Answer: To reference the oft quoted line, “It’s better to burn out

Every living person invariably lives by moving forward in time while looking back at the past. Every person faces uncertainty and regrets, plagued by the constant question, “What

Since at least 2001 I’ve deliberately tried to sample as many of the new anime TV and web titles released in Japan each year as I could access.

I show & tell five recent small orders received from Mandarake & Suruga-ya.

The Lovely Angels, a pair of “trouble consultants” employed by the WWWA (World Welfare Works Association) are Kei & Yuri. They’re experts at their job, yet accidents, collateral