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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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We interview Japan’s least-popular form of currency and the only bill not to be getting a slick new face-lift in the near future.
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Newly added “Angel Hour” service gets you a discount on drinks such as L.C.L. and the Ayanam Rei Soda cocktail.
The castle closest to Tokyo expands its English explanations and adds a Fuma ninja clan infiltration experience.
The Switch’s Nintendo Labo VR Kit is going to give us new ways to play two of the company’s best-loved games ever.
Leaving out the littlest bounty hunter is a big omission, and could signify a difference in tone between the anime and live-action version.
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