The Anime Blog – We Go Beyond Anime!

2008 was a very strange year for the anime and manga industry. It seemed like both anime and manga took big hits- with publishers closing, reduced selections of titles, the failure of a major live action adaptation and other troubles. But the good news underneath it all is that anime is alive and well online [...]

The topic for Blog Action Day 2008 is Poverty. Since we’re really passionate about Japanese culture on The Anime Blog, so I thought it would be a great opportunity to talk about a few organizations dedicated to reducing poverty in Japan (and worldwide).
The topic for last year’s Blog Action Day was the environment. We talked [...]

Dork. Nerd. Geek. Fan. Otaku. In this day and age, you’d think we’d rise above name calling and label slinging. Labels confine people and commit them to one identity. Labels like jock, dork, homo and nerd have been in our insultation vocabulary for decades, but still haven’t lost their sting. And with new forms of [...]

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