Bluray would be a good option if they weren’t so hideously expensive. It’s not like how it is in the West where most Bluray are priced criminally low (unless it’s a well known TV show, where they mark up the prices to Japanese-levels)

Japan is such a great nation when it doesn’t have wackos who tries to push out a ‘clean’ nation filled with yes men/women who only live a certain way and of course, everything foreign and different and alternative is all evil and needs to be kicked out of Japan ASAP. As a nation, it should [...]

I think it had enough drama to be impactful regardless.

I still wonder why Tomoe Mami is chosen over Miki Sayaka considering Sayaka suffered so much throughout the season and was arguably the main hero of the story.

Squid heretic!

I kind of wish the blue and white part of her uniforms were reversed. Because the blue outline makes her look wider than she is. /fashion-geek

Epileptics, old people, sleepy driver, angry drivers…

Just let cars drive themselves already!

This is holy sanctimony! An otaku and his fantasy bride. Prayers and well wishes to the perverted!

It’s only a deal breaker for old people… because you know.. kids nowadays usually type things on a keyboard.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK! =(

I think almost all the shows in the list should have sold 10 times higher. But the price of getting even one DVD filled with only 2 or 3 episodes is absurd. Even if you are a fan of the show, buying it is just not really an option if you don’t have money to [...]

Don’t worry. I’m sure the Japanese police does that to themselves just fine.

I’m not a fan of eating live things myself and I’m from the actual culture itself. Some older family members have tried it here and there but even they thought it was a cruel practice (albeit they tout freshness, even though that’s a moot point scientifically. Well preserved meats/fish are just as fresh). Even with [...]

Of course it’s not a Chinese problem exclusively. I just wonder why this site keeps needing to bring China down a peg and keep pace with the racist 2ch mentality.

What’s so hard to understand about electronica + J-pop ballads?

She is May’n, one of the biggest J-pop stars. Why is this so surprising all of a sudden?

What is the point of these Chinese stories again?…

At this point, I don’t really see it as anything other than sad to watch. So a nation of billions use their own well being to get money. I don’t see what more needs to be said.

I kind of like the old Umisho artstyle better too. At least it was way more unique. Now it looks cleaner and more evolved, but it doesn’t look as unique.

This, pretty much. It’s like how people can just walk around and say something is ‘cool’, that specific type of wording has changed through the years. People need to realize language is flexible and slang words may in turn become the main definition at times. Both English and Japanese are more flexible as languages than [...]

Japanese speakers can still say ‘kawaii’ or ‘genki’ just fine. But I rather would say it like ‘Cho-Kawa’ or make it sound more slangy. That’s used just fine. A lot of westerners has this ‘blacklisted’ words they impose on Japanese words. It doesn’t work that way. Surely some words can be awkward without properly becoming [...]

I know my opinion on this will be fiercely unpopular, but martial arts shouldn’t be an option for kids in general. Kids in general hasn’t developed the right amount of muscle and bone density and other factors that would probably favor a young adult or adult practitioners. If they want to learn Karate/Judo at a [...]

Yeah. Some dramas are plagued with bad acting because sometimes they worry more about the visual aesthetic of the actors than the quality of the acting. It happens all the time with… Asian dramas in general. Almost every drama nowadays seems to have at least a few models or singers.