Category: Ask John

Question: What is the biggest threat to the anime industry? Is it pirating (I refer mostly to bootlegging), over saturation, reduced standards for a lot of mainstream anime,

Question: What are some of your personal favorite anime that have been released recently (after 2000, I suppose)?

Question: If the 80s saw the rise of experimental anime and style over substance; the 90s saw the rise of more intelligent, complex anime; and the 2000s saw

Question: I’d like to answer both of these similar questions. Where are the HD DVD and Blue Ray anime DVD releases? A few months ago I bought a

Question: Do you think that anime shows that are completely original (as in, not based off of any pre-existing work) show more creativity than anime based off of

Question: Why are some fans of manga dead-set on categorizing manga as a style and emulating it? To me, it’s a cultural extension of Japan and a subset

Question: I’m a huge fan of The Prince of Tennis, especially the live-action musicals. Do you know where I could get the DVDs of the musicals and do

Question: When do you think the Lucky Star blitz might happen in the U.S.?

Question: Why do “middle-man” companies like ShoPro and Enoki Films pick up titles that are probably never going to become liscened, like Shinseikiden Mars, Majuu Sensen The Apocalypse,

Question: In Japan, the Naruto series have reverted back to the manga chapters with the name of Naruto Shippuden. I saw in some boards a question that many

Question: I was wondering why are ero guro stories almost the only place to see stories that have disabled characters in lead roles? Is it because it would

Question: Taking any possible factor into account, is there any chance at all that the Digimon series, even dub-only, will ever see the light of day in the

Question: The “zombie survival/horror” genre of entertainment has had a huge revival in the past few years. In cinema we’ve had 28 Days Later and its sequel, the

Question: I was astonished to see that Viz is coming out with a Bleach DVD boxset for episodes 1-20 in October. This will retail for less than the

Question: Okay, first of all, I see a lot of drills in Japanese anime/games. Examples are Gurren Laggan, Drill Dozer (for GBA), and the Kurogane’s drill on its