The tokusatsu franchise continues to find itself on the wrong side of the law with second arrest in as many months.
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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Decades’ worth of anime moms assemble for amazing group shot that even features an Undertale shout-out.
Breathtaking artwork form Hiroshima artist looks more like photography than oil paintings.
Artist meets fan who loves his work yet can’t buy it, but not because she can’t afford it.
Man with more determination than brains says after initial rejection days earlier, he “just couldn’t forget her.”
After tasting defeat at Fatburger in America a year ago, we’re back for a rematch as the Los Angeles-based burger chain comes to Japan.
Famicom Mini Weekly Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary Version is all about manga/anime games, but that could spell disaster for North America.
Japan has a reputation for cool gadgets and efficient interiors, but this is on a whole new level!
Clam chowder and chili dips also available, and are enticing alternatives to Japanese pizza with mayo.
Tongue-lashing has fans of Idolmaster, Evangelion franchises thinking they’ve heard that voice before.
Local citizen takes the law into her own hands and catches the prepaid card-stealing bird, but lands in trouble with the authorities herself.
Hideaki Anno recalls working on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with the Studio Ghibli legend.
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