Category: Ask John

Question: Do you think that yuri will become more popular than yaoi in America (especially with Media Blasters and Seven Seas releasing it)?

Question: Comedian deities in Dragon Ball Z. An evil alien Buddha in Gantz. Is there any anime that shocked religious groups in Japan or was religiously controversial?

Question: How much creative influence do Americans have on US/Japan co-produced anime? While titles like The Animatrix, Highlander: The Search for Vengeance and Batman: Gotham Knight appear to

Question: I can understand why unnatural hair and eye colors are the norm in fantasy-based anime, but why do they regularly occur in anime series based in present

Question: Finding a mecha fan is like chasing leprechauns. The closest thing I’ve found was one person who liked Evangelion, and only because it was “deep.” I want

Question: Just curious if you knew if there was a planned 3rd season of Black Lagoon? Now that the manga is up to almost volume 8, I believe,

Question: While waiting to receive the first 5 DVDs of the “King Of Braves GAO-GAI-GAR” series, I was very surprised to learn of a tie-in between this series

Question: Why is there a sudden trend of releasing two 13-epsiode series rather than one full length one? It seems to have become a fairly big trend suddenly

Question: Why is love such a big thing in anime? I know that anime and manga reflects Japanese culture, but when a female character is introduced, she automatically

Question: What ever happened to Kiddy Grade 2? We got the promo video almost a year ago but there hasn’t been so much as a mention since!

Question: Hello, John. A pile of Japanese readers are mad at you for your “Thou Shall Not Kill?” article. So I’d like to ask a question from the

Question: I know it’s been quite a while since the first series of Berserk has come out, but how good of chance is there right now for it

Question: I’m not sure if I’m the only one who has really noticed it now, but in American animation, guys like Batman and Superman are against killing the

Question: I am wondering if “Kite Uncut” is the fully uncut version. I am aware that there were 3 releases of Kite and that only one of them

Question: Seeing how more companies are starting to go towards doing more straight-to-boxset or sub-only releases, is it possible that more niche and vintage anime could have a