Category: Ask John

Question: I did a search, but it looks like no-one’s asked you about an uncut English/Japanese Pokemon being released. Why do you think there hasn’t been one already?

Question: Vampires seem to be pretty popular in anime these days. From the just completed Trinity Blood, the ongoing Moon Phase and Hellsing Ultimate, the upcoming comedic take

Question: The current season [of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha] StrikerS is very marketable. Is there any chance a company would pick up the later series and not the

Question: How much Munto is there? I noticed that this is an original concept. It has no manga or novel that it is going off of, that I

Question: Do you think that, or why do you think that anime in the US is not at all treated like other foreign media is? A lot of

Question: How do you feel about the Bleach anime filler still affecting the original storyline? The Bleach filler is long and over. However, it would appear the filler

Question: I know that there are a lot of copycat movies in the US movie industry, but is there a lot of borrowing between titles in anime, and

Question: I personally wonder if there will ever be an anime adaptation of Kiyohiko Azuma’s Yotsuba to! manga. There may be a trend in the anime industry that

Question: I have a question reguarding the OAV “My Dear Marie.” I thought it was good, though a bit cheezy. And I was surprised when the whole thing

Question: Do you think that ADV has a chance of making a dime from their license of Air? It must have been expensive, and it just doesn’t seem

Question: Among all the comments and insults thrown about by everyone involved, do you think any lines were crossed by any of the parties involved? And in the

Question: Has there ever been a show from Japan with so incredibly expensive a license that U.S. companies deemed it too great a financial risk to import to

Question: What companies besides Toei have failed in their attempt to enter the North American anime and manga markets?

Question: Since we have so much talk about market saturation in the American anime industry, do you think the actual market will ever grow? Or was two years

Question: What do you think is the likelihood of a Full Metal Panic theatrical release?