A while back I wrote about some of the more popular tropes used in manga (and anime too!). A single post really doesn't do the topic justice, though, given the huge number of manga tropes out there. The tropes I covered … [Read more...]
Every Sunday we gather the week's weird and interesting Japanese news and present it to you in our Sunday News column. It might not always be hard-hitting news, but we hope that it still informs and entertains you. … [Read more...]
Hello, my name's Fiona, and I'm an otaku – or at least, I used to be. My obsession of choice? Comics. I loved them. I was an equal opportunities lover too. At one time my huge collection included Spiderman and Garfield and … [Read more...]
When I was a kid, I was over at a friend's house and found a magazine with a bunch of comics in it. As I started looking through it, I found a horrifying comic. I'd never really seen a comic like it before, and was really … [Read more...]
Imagine this: You leave work at 3 am yet again, glumly thinking I’m going to become another karoshi statistic. The nearest capsule hotel is just a half-hour walk away, but you’re knackered and you know … [Read more...]
Many would say that July 16th, 1988 was the day that the Western world was really introduced to anime. This is the date that Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira was released in the United States. Audiences were shocked and awed by its … [Read more...]