I recorded a little video of myself opening my latest two shipments of anime & manga odds & ends from Japan.

For more than twenty years running I’ve been trying to sample every new anime broadcast in Japan each year. In my perspective, 2016 to 2018 was a three-year span that produced a lot of new titles yet few spotlight masterpieces. 2025 may co...

I recorded a new video expressing my initial thoughts on the Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution/Culling Game movie and some of my latest anime purchases.

On our final morning in Tokyo, Phil & I woke early and packed. After Phil came downstairs, I went up and showered. When we fully cleared the dining room table, we discovered another forgotten pile of 10-yen coins. We gave the hou...

Our final full day in Tokyo began with Phil & I taking the Keisei Line train to the Oshieage (Sky Tree Mae) train station. At our local Aoto train station, both of us used the ticketing machines to load another 1,000 yen onto our IC cards that we primarily use to pay for train fares, and occasionally drinks from vending machines. At that point in time I had no Japanese bi...