You can’t have anime without Japanese culture! Find out where anime fashion comes from and why Japan’s designs are so unique.
With the summer anime convention season about to hit next month (ACEN and more), there’s going to be all sorts of exciting stuff happening in the world of anime. Between all the anime blog coverage, cosplay, anime panels, announcements, parties, guests, bands, manga and more there’s gonna be tons of kawaii critters and crazed otaku [...]
Honeymoons are the one time in a married couples’ life where it’s expected that they go kuh-ray-zee with each other. Many honeymooners book nights at expensive hotel suites and spend their hours basking in their new love. After that, well whoop de doo? No more adventurous romping, no more expensive suites designed [...]
With all this talk of moé lately, I found out that there’s a huge article in Newsweek Japan (with a cover story) on moé culture. Apparently there’s also some stuff on maid cafes but unfortunately there aren’t any previews of the article.
This post courtesy of Guest Writer David Savage (Narcolepsy).
J-rock seems like a fairly new trend within the music industry. For those of us in the western hemisphere it may seem that there is a new brand of Japanese rock and roll popping up from Japan. However, the history of rock in Japan is [...]
I can say from experience that while Japanese kimonos are beautiful, they’re not exactly as comfortable as they look. Nor are they convenient to carry things in. Western style clothing has pockets and zippers to cache stuff away in but how did the Japanese carry their yen or matches or whatever before the [...]
Is anyone feeling that anxious drive to buy that special someone a $50 box of heart-shaped chocolates for the upcoming love holiday? Or is anyone dying to buy a frilly negligee that their sweetie’ll never wear but they’ll buy anyway because the store clerk will convince them that she’ll be their love slave all [...]
“Hey, baby, what’s your sign†is a cheesy pickup line developed, no doubt, in the late sixties/early seventies when astrology was all the craze. Astrology itself (in some form another), however, has been around for thousands of years. Time was when wise men made or broke an empire with the complex way they [...]
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