I asked Collette for advice on this and she pointed me here to ask the community. I am looking for a new anime with a unique art style to watch. Like how drastically different Sin City looked fro...

Brad usually has this up by now, so I decided to steal the duty from him.Yano is so cruel.This episode really just had me smiling the whole time. It almost seems like the calm before the storm wi...

Sorry, had Beatles stuck in my head, hence that title. A cookie to the first to name the song referenced. So tonight we return to Anime, concluding Golden Boy. The 3:3 ratio from last time worked...

Jake Adelstein talks to Jon Stewart about his search for enlightenment, karate, and literature in Japan before going into truly WTF territory with such wonderful facts like:Gunshots, beheadings, ...

After a long boring day at work, I went to my local Best Buy, walked right by and "Dragon Ball Z: Dragon Box One," and picked up the Blu-Ray of . Don't get me wrong: I would love to ...

It's been November 18 for more than a few hours in Japan, but screw time zones! I would like to wish Minori Chihara a very happy 29th birthday and to celebrate it in the only way I know how: by m...

I've heard about the Zoids franchise for quite sometime now, I never really grasped why it was popular both here in the States and in Japan. Big deal, theyre all just a bunch of dinosaurs with na...

I know there are many vocaloid fans on here and I think you guys should hear about something pretty awesome. I was looking for videos of vocaloid on youtube and come across one title Love is War ...

Hey guys! I need a few more interns, but there's a catch this time -- you MUST be able to read Japanese. And we will test your knowledge before hiring you, so please don't apply unless you have a...

Or "why people shouldn't just stay with the anime but also go for the original material".Introduction.Once upon a time, around 8 moons ago, I'd been having some headaches - possibly due to the st...

it's finally coming out! but not until April sadly anyway here's Aint It Cool news confirming it, you'll have to scroll down to see it though

Once in a while you stumble upon a work whose quality is so bad, that it becomes awesome. You start laughing at the bad voice acting, the bad drawing, the obvious plot twists, etc.Kampfer is NOT ...

But I am a heterosexual (maybe, who knows, I may end up being a violin-sexual) male.Anyway, Loudon Wainwright's song with video editing by Ian Roberts, assisted by Big Bad Truck's artwork.Wow, di...

Happy idol day? I am surely sorely tempted to place another classical exposé on anything classical.However, the raw talent on display here just blows me away.Until I go back to watching Karajan ...

Oh hi, . I didn't see you there. Would you like to take a seat and eat some with me. You will? That's so nice of you! I decided to use up all the rice I had and made just enough for 2 people. I...

So I guess the Emperor of Japan, Emperor Akihito just celebrated a big day? It's the 20th anniversary of him being, you know, His Imperial Majesty. I figure that there should probably be menti...

Clicking through the world today, I came across these colorful pictures from a live painting event that took place at a Tokyo gallery last week. The artist, Que Houxo, created the flowers while ...

So, who wants to meet up at the Boom Boom Satellites show? I'm very likely going to come (barring any weird events) and it seems some other Jtor staff will be coming too. What about you guys in t...

It MUST have been that marathon session of . What else would have made me show my otaku erudition from The University of Japanator through a sudden urge to write this based on an article on .夫:...

When I first heard about , I passed it of as a typical medieval fantasyand promptly dismissed it. It was only after hearing the massive praises it was receiving atJapanator and AnimeMusicVideos.o...

Maybe I'm a bad person for this, but I like to see good people go through hell. Well, good characters anyway. The more noble and upright the character, the more exciting it is to put them throu...

Was Sawako always that flat?Also, this episode made me HHHHHNNNNGGGG pretty damn hard. How about for you?

I am a pretty skeptical guy. Cynical in my approach to life. In this hell-hole known as life, I see abuse of power every day. Hell, I am a victim of a thinly veiled government policy of racism si...

If there's anything I love more about an entertainment medium, it's the independent community behind it. I've always found whatever these people put out to be far more entertaining then what has ...

Remember the good old days as children; waking up every Saturday morning to watch your favorite cartoons? Well, do you remember a little show called ? Of course you do. That was every child's cra...

A young girl is awakened by the calls of a crow, only to find herself falling through the air. Oddly calm about the entire experience, she witnesses the crow trying to slow her descent, only for ...

Back when was announced I couldn’t help but be intrigued by the concept. A handful of famous manga artists collaborating to create adaptations of six famous Japanese novels sounded like a winn...

Hhhhhhnnnnnnggg! Oh my poor Sawako, what can I do to heal your broken heart? Also, they ended on such a cliffhanger it's unfair. Excuse me while I twist and turn, waiting for the next episode.

[url=http://www.thesurfactants.com][/url]As our most sexy and savvy constant readers already know, I sort of have a thing for music. As those very same readers may know, despite being sexy and s...

With the recent interest in how the general public views anime (the talk about Princess Robot Bubblegum and the old anime=porn problem) I decided to ask this question.How many of us hide our love...

With such awesome things as mechs, magic elves, and personal guardian angels why would anyone ever settle for a plain old slice of life series? It was action packed shows like Cowboy Bebop that s...

Square Enix. We all know them. The creators of the legendary Final Fantasy game series, the famous Kingdom Hearts series, and various other offshoot games. This particular game, The World Ends Wi...

Japanator is still hiring interns! If you are interested, send an email to colette@tomopop.com with a sample of your writing. We are ideally looking for an intern to contribute 5 or more posts a ...

I remember like it was yesterday....Actually it was in the sophomore year of college. I was at my desk typing up another pointless paper on the subtleties of macroeconomics that I knew I would fo...

First off, allow me to thank Jtor for the lovely prizes, the "Complete Set" of The Law of Ueki, which I honestly hadn't heard of until I received it, and the DBZ movie Bardok: The Father of Goku....

Okay, so I'm trying to figure out Aniwednesdays right now. It seems that almost nobody really watched Gankutsuou, and I think its moreso due to the timeframe it plays in rather than what it is (b...

Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, I present to you: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, the OVA from 1993, with 6 glorious episodes of pure entertainment.When I was first introduced to Fist of the North St...

I know a sort of upset right now is GTA4's anime parody "Princess Robot Bubblegum". I've been looking forward to this episode coming out for quite a while, so anime parody or not I was going to g...

Amazing Touhou video I thought I would share :I was left speechless for about 10 minutes, it's amazing.Here's the original on NicoNico for us that have an account :(wish I could get the embedding...

After writing about how much I love magical girl shows, I realized that I haven't actually seen all that many-- aside from all 200 episodes of , of course- so I wanted to try some more. I was p...

I dont know how many of you buy these sorts of things from Hoby Search, personally I dont much go for those sorts of things, however for those who do buy them and buy from HS the you should know ...

So Naruto Shippuuden aired yesterday on disney xd and i was just wondering if anyone saw it, if so was the editing obvious or was it decent? Let me hear your thoughts.

Wait, I'm a month or two late? That's how long it took me to remember what got me into Anime, Manga and Japan in the first place! And is it a strange story...I was I believe 11 to 12 years old wh...

There were plenty of images to choose from, but this one made me laugh. A bit of humor to break up all the melancholy. I don't know if my heart will be able to take this lasting more than the nex...

Just wanted to let you know this. Hearing from you guys, seeing your comments and discussions, this is what makes running Japanator so rewarding. I hope you guys keep reading and loving the site....

After not keeping up with anime for a while, I've decided that I miss it and want to catch up with what's going on in animeland. I'm going to watch the first episode or two of a whole bunch o...

So.... The other day I was wondering. Why the heck do I like yaoi? Is there some reason that I can't understand that draws me into the yaoi fangirl group? I didn't think I had a problem... U...

KumoriCon 2009 is going to remain a fond memory for years to come. In the period of just three days spent in Portland, OR I knocked more firsts out of the way than I ever had before: my first ani...

Yes, it's true, I am male and I enjoy reading Shojo manga. Inside our otaku circle, that might not be too weird, but those non-otaku out there aren't so accepting. This is why I used to use my ...

Haven't gotten a chance to do so anywhere else but Twitter, but I'd like to thank the staff at Japanator for the awesome prizes for the New York Anime Fest contest! (I got 2 Manhwa and the Full s...

The new and unfortunately will soon be upon us by Spring 2010, without forgetting the two live action specials due as well.So just before all the fun begins, I would like to place some (if not a...

HHHHNNNNNGGGG.To avoid spoilers, I'll just leave all the talking to be done in the comments. But before that, man, shit's gettin' serious.

Hello Japanator.Consider this the first of many painful bloody thrusts that take my anime blogging virginity away. It's a humiliating process, during which I will be screaming "NOOOO!" repeatedly...

Black Lagoon is my jam, plain and simple. With volume 8, Viz caught up to the Japanese release of the manga. So, while it's a good thing that there's now no lag between the volumes, the accelerat...

I just got my prize from the NYAF contest: the OVA and fifth season of . So, I wanted to come on here and make a post to say thank you to the Japanator staff! You guys rock; thanks a ton!

Now that we're a few weeks into the fall season, almost all of the shows have had time to air with most well into their 3rd week of episodes. Dunno about you guys, but some how I've managed to en...

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Today is the last day of . It's the finals, the last round.The showdown between Taiga Aisaka of Toradora and Yui Hirasawa of (not P-Model) K-ON is, at a glance, just another day on the luls-fille...

Well, as a result of various retards, or perhaps some vengeful neighbors, my internet was down for the last two days. Oh woe was me, at least for a little while. Until I got bored and decided to ...

Thought I'd let you guys know about a few contests that are running this month:Shonen Jump has a copy of up for grabs right now, and if you want a chance to get it, all you have to do is follow ...

You've asked for it so we've giving it to you! In an effort to let old man Hitogoroshi go to bed at a decent time Yashoki in his infinite wisdom (read: Taco Stash) has convinced King3vbo, Necro...

Horrible picture of me, i know. Anyway so i entered this contest on suduvu.com where you have a chance to win 5 manga. All you have to do is fill out a form with your info and thats it. You get a...

In recent years, the U.S. entertainment industry has made deals to make popular manga/anime into live-action films. While Dragonball Evolution was a disaster, I have hope for the future of manga/...

Failcast has finally hit the big 5-0, so does that mean we're over the hill? Well, Old Man Hito is, so we'll just count that for the rest of us.Since it's been another ten episodes, that means it...

I am not usually outwardly critical of Japan, in any matter except for one, their whaling industry. No matter how many cute ponytail tsundere or moeblobs Japan produces, you cannot convince me th...

It's easy to make a list of favorite shows. Whether you enjoy every single moment of it, or you enjoy most of it so much you can ignore the mediocre. Or maybe just 'as a whole' you decide this is...

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days takes place in the time between Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 2. Instead of playing as the series protagonist Sora, you get to play as Roxas, his ...

Okay. Here's the thing. I thought about posting this on the front page, but it's so GOSSIPY that I couldn't bring myself to actually do it. I figured, people that don't give a fuck about j-drama ...

On July 18th, 2001, almost nothing anime related happened in Baltimore. What was happening was a massive fire under the streets of Baltimore due to a train derailment and chemical fire. By Augu...

I really don't have a whole lot to say in this blog post, aside from the fact that school = me busy. But given that we're learning Flash right now (ahhh what an annoying web tool) I was tasked to...

It was my first big convention, and when I say big I mean small, but it was the biggest one I had been to so far. Chibi-Pa 200 had a medium size dealer room, a few screening rooms and that was ab...

Anime Boston 2008 was on the same weekend as my sixteenth birthday, and, really, it was a pretty great birthday present; I got a hotel room, a pass and around a hundred dollars from my parents, f...

[As a preface: None of these cosplayers are me, and if one of them is you, and you don't want your picture in this blog leave a comment and I'll get rid of it immediately.]Start the post off with...

Here is the link to the threadPlease read it and watch the video. I have been living in Japan for some time, and just got back to take care of family issues. So please read this with what I just ...

Well, hello there, Jtor crew. It's about time I showed my face around here. :)If you've ever been to Japanator's sister sites, you should know me already. If you haven't, then allow me to introdu...