Real robot anime knows real life is hard these days, but challenges us to show the power of what we can do as long as we care and hold on to hope.
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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A new place to stay not far from the real-world inspiration for the setting of My Neighbor Totoro.
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Troubles continue for franchise as model is arrested in his home less than eight hours after initial questioning.
A pattern emerges in how creators pick characters’ birthday dates, with one day in particular being a major cluster.
Blast occurs one day before shabu shabu restaurant’s grand reopening, claims worker’s life.
The “circle of the sun boxed lunch” is usually a friend to those with a lonely wallet, but not this one.
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