Category: Ask John

Question: The 2nd season of Haruhi Suzumiya. Any idea of when it might make its way to the US?

Question: Exactly how much involvement do the original authors of a manga have in the filler episodes of the anime adaptation? I know that filler episodes are used

Question: Who have been the most influential people in the anime industry over the past 20 years?

Question: Why do Hollywood and certain domestic anime companies continue to assert the value of BD when it’s clearly an overpriced gimmick? With the advent of the Matrix

Question: It seems some other anime news site believes that Queen’s Blade is ruining the anime industry. Do you feel Queen’s Blade is destroying anime?

Question: Is Aoi Hana likely to be released on American DVD? And how successful does it seem to be, relative to other yuri anime?

Question: Could the Japanese TV industry ever be like the American TV industry? As in airing original programming ever year (roughly 45 new shows premiere yearly on US

Question: Why do anime shows tend to ignore that other countries exist in the world? Most anime shows tend to rarely make any mention of another country unless

Question: I have seen an anime titled called Gall Force: The Revolution on the Internet and I was wondering, has this title be exported to the US?

Question: As far as I know, Haibane Renmei, originally released in North American by Geneon, has not be re-licensed. It has never been a well-know or popular series,

Question: Why is Eva 1.0 doing so horribly in American theaters? Is the perceived fandom for that series overblown? Did Gainax wait too long for the highest bidder

Question: Anime has been around for a long time in Japan, longer than video games at least. But in America and Japan video games have grown to have

Question: A lot of anime focuses on people in the military or ex-military personnel. Shows like Ghost in the Shell, Rurouni Kenshin, Peacemaker, Full Metal Panic, Blood+, Galaxy

Question: There exists a scenario often found in romantic comedy or “harem” situations. Stated briefly, the actions of a school government official towards “maintaining a standard of moral

Question: What is your opinion of the Spice and Wolf Yen Press novel cover backlash?