A funny story from Japanese Twitter user RainMamizu has been making the rounds over the past few weeks. She’d been dating a guy for sometime, when one day he searched her phone without asking, discovering that she was a self-proclaimed fujoshi. Up till now she …Read more »
The plot thickens in the on-going saga of the Love Live Sunshine!! manhole covers in Numazu, Japan. Shortly after being installed in late May, many of the manhole covers were vandalized with spray paint. It was later announced that the city was removing the manhole …Read more »
Earlier this week Japanese twitter user Lambda39 chose to do some light research into the personal hygiene habits of anime fans. After posting a poll asking otaku how often they showered, the following results came out: ● Every day, obviously: 81 percent ● Roughly every …Read more »
Publisher Kadokawa has a division called eb-i Xpress specifically dedicated to performing market research on the Japanese entertainment industry. This week they sent out a press release revealing the top 20 results from their study on the most anticipated anime TV series of the upcoming …Read more »
It sounds like a bad joke; a disgruntled otaku still living with his parents into middle age, who becomes so frustrated with their nagging about his lifestyle that he snaps. Unfortunately, what might otherwise be a hypothetical situation or some kind of nasty stereotype has …Read more »
Ever watched an anime and thought to yourself, “I’d love to bury myself in that long, flowing hair”? Plenty of Japanese fans have, and they’ve rated the males with the most luscious locks in a poll released by Goo this week. Here are the top …Read more »
It’s a question that echoes throughout message boards and in convention halls around the world: what was the anime that got you into anime? A recent thread on popular Japanese site for all things geek, Otakomu, asked just that, and the variety of responses, across …Read more »
You know the type. You can count the number of times they speak on one hand, but when they do, their lines are always memorable. Ranking site Goo recently asked readers to rank anime and manga’s best silent types, and here’s who they chose: 20. …Read more »
It seems like every child at some point every child becomes frustrated with their own artwork and wishes they had an better artist around to bring their ideas to life more effectively. For most of us that’s usually just classmate or older sibling, but for …Read more »
For a lot of Gundam fans I know, the mobile suits themselves are the sexy part, but anyway: ranking site Goo has asked fans to list Gundam’s sexiest females. And since the franchise stretches back all the way to 1979, there’s a fair amount of …Read more »
Have you ever been watching an anime series that suddenly takes a left turn, leaving you scratching your head saying “wait, what just happened?”? If so, you’re not alone. This week, ranking site Goo asked Japanese fans to rank the series that suddenly veered off …Read more »
If you’ve ever watched an anime series and wondered how exactly it met broadcast standards, well, you’re not alone. Ranking site Goo asked its readers to rank the TV anime they were shocked actually made it to air, and these are the barely-safe-for-broadcast results: 10. …Read more »
January 20 marked a special day in Japan: it’s the day in 1866 when Ryoma Sakamoto’s negotiations between the Choshu and Satsuma helped bring peace to the country. As such, it’s considered “the day rivals joined hands,” and made as good an excuse as any …Read more »
When it comes to adaptations of popular manga and novels, the original is usually considered the holy grail—but every so often, an anime that tops the original appears. Pollsters Goo asked their readers to list these original-topping anime adaptations, and the top 20 were as …Read more »
As we suspect most of our readers know, kimono—literally “thing you wear” in Japanese—are the traditional Japanese robes that, these days, are generally reserved for special occasions. Pollmasters Charapedia recently asked their readers which anime and manga characters look best in kimono, and today, the …Read more »
Julian Gnam
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