Author: John

Monday morning in Tokyo was cloudy but still warm. Justin, Scott, and I took the shuttle bus from the Hilton Hotel to Shinjuku Station. Once at the station

Justin & Scott woke rather early, but I chose to sleep in a bit. We finally left the hotel at 11am. At the hotel driveway turnabout, my friend

Mornings seem to arrive very early in Tokyo. At 6:30 in the morning, the sun was already high and especially bright, waking all three of us. Each of

All three of us got varying amounts of sleep in the LA Airport Hilton before catching the shuttle bus to the airport. At terminal 4 we approached the

In March 2016 my friends Scott & Justin went to Tokyo for the first time, bringing me along on my ninth, I think, trip. From the outset Scott

At yesterday’s Daytona Beach Comic Con I found and purchased this 1979 oddity of anime history for $5. Osamu Tezuka published his Magma Taishi manga in May 1965.

KJJ Animation & Big Firebird Animation’s currently airing “Jikken-hin Kazoku: Creatures Family Days” seems to be blurring the clear distinction of “Japanese animation” more than any prior production

Question: Which was the first vocal theme song ever created for or used for an opening or an ending. I heard or read somewhere that the 1963 Tetsuwan

Star Wars: The Last Jedi spoilers follow. I’ve been thinking a bit about Luke in Last Jedi. Contrary to the seeming predominant perspective, I still do like Luke’s

Question: This is a new year and it is officially clear that anime/animesque type series is now more or less accepted internationally in Hollywood films and television. Some

A seemingly ever increasing number of annual anime productions are adaptations of Japanese light novels. Anime productions have frequently been adaptations of other media from the outset of

A pre-adolescent boy lives with a robot pet from the future. The boy’s daily life involves a crush on his female classmate as well as an assortment of

Question: Is Netflix creating a revolution similar to that generated by the introduction of the OVA format? Answer: Inherent within the term “revolution” is the concept of “revolutionary,”

I’ve been an virtually obsessive Dirty Pair fan since roughly 1986. I’ve collected more than 50 Japanese Dirty Pair doujinshi, although I’m probably not even half-way to a

Every year Japan’s anime industry pushes more new anime out to viewers via television broadcast and increasingly by Internet streaming. By comparison, 2010 saw the broadcast of roughly