Casey Baseel
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Casey Baseel spent his formative years staring in frustration at un-subtitled Japanese TV programming shown on Southern California’s international channel. Taking matters into his own hands, he moved to Tokyo to study the language, then found work in Yokohama a decade ago teaching, translating, and marketing hotels he can’t afford to stay in. When not participating in the eternal cycle of exercising to burn the calories form his love of Japanese food, Casey scours used comic and game shops for forgotten classics, drags his wife around the country in a quest to visit all its castles, sings karaoke not nearly as well as he thinks he does, and counts the days until the summertime bars open on Enoshima Beach.
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Because if your home is your castle, doesn’t that mean it’s the perfect place to create a fantasy RPG?
No Disney movie has ever earned as much at theaters in Japan as the seemingly unstoppable Mugen Train.
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Our resident 100 yen shop expert tries to become better-looking while still keeping his wallet beautifully full.
McCafe by Barista and Belgian chocolatier deliver no fewer than four kinds of chocolate in a single sip.
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