One day, Olivia – blonde-haired, foreign-looking transfer student – lies to air-headed Hanako about her English skills. Despite her looks, she has actually lived in Japan almost all her life and can’t speak English very well, but succeeded in tricking Hanako. This bit of mischief sparked a series of small games in the classroom between […]
The great thing about anime is that it is so vast yet so self-contained as a genre of media. Many of the same creators that worked on one project will move onto another, and sometimes that love for a previous project can spill over into the new one. This results in cameos and, even better,
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Among those big doe eyes and hair colors that cover every section of the rainbow, Cute Girls Doing Cute Things anime remain the quintessential genre of moe. While some people vilify moe, there is a good reason moe took over anime – A larger majority clearly enjoyed it. Like the overly long title of an
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Unlike Christmas in western cultures, Christmas in Japan is a little different. As Shinto and Buddhism remain the dominant religions, it is not a religious holiday, but rather more of a romantic one. As Japan is a culture that tends to pick some of the world’s favorite things and adapt them as their own when
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A cool breeze is blowing, but it is not the winds of winter, it is the winds of kuudere. Unlike tsunderes that hide their dere, lovey-dovey side behind fiery hostility, the kuudere maintains their cold, emotionless facade near-exclusively. They may seem apathetic and generally uncaring, but often they actually care a lot. Typically the realm
No matter what holidays you celebrate, November and December are the months for family. You go home, you eat food, you argue about your obsession with Japanese “cartoons”, and then retreat to different corners of the house to get separately drunk. Good times, right? Well, if you think your family is pretty representative of dysfunction
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They are the type of girl that is prickly like a cactus on the outside, but as sweet as sugar deep inside – Everyone loves a tsundere. Well, everyone loves a well-written tsundere. We cultured modern anime fans are starting to move past the era where tsunderes were beloved for their physical violence. However, a
Kyousuke has a smart, cute, and extremely bratty little sister who hates him. While they got along when they were young, they grew apart as they got older. One day when he finds an anime DVD he doesn’t recognize in his house. He opens it up only to discover eroge inside. Later, he finds out
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Umaru Doma is, by all accounts, the perfect student. She is beautiful, smart, and respectful, at least until she gets home, anyway. Once that door closes, Umaru dons her hamster hoodie and transforms into a bratty, lazy, junk food-gorging otaku that is fully dependent on her responsible older brother, Taihei. Whether it is playing video
It’s almost the Fourth of July, the most American holiday aside from Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Veteran’s Day that one no one remembers because they don’t get the day off. Now, because America is the most important country in the world, it is crucial that we look at how it is represented around the
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