“…I wish he would work on his Japanese pronunciation.”

Probably one reason why he is a writer rather than, say, a radio/TV talk show host…

Thanks for the heads up about PopJNeo. Unfortunately, the closest Kinokuniya
is about 1,000 miles away from me. I’ll look for an alternate way of getting a copy;
in the meantime, I’ll check out their website.

I might pick up a copy of Otaku USA to check it out. There’s also a pretty well written free magazine called PopJNeo (http://www.popjneo.com/). You can usually find it at Kinokuniya.