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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Tohru and the Sohma boys are back for the faithful adaptation of the original manga, but why didn’t this happen the first time?
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This Ginza cafe treats its coffee like fine wine, so we sent Mr. Sato to sample a vintage.
Country’s last-remaining pager company announces it’s shutting down its service, but users still have a couple more months to say their good-byes.
Maximum points for accuracy to the Pokémon source material, zero points for cuteness.
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