Sure, we suppose you could make money by treating your Pocket Monsters like this, but it’d make you the real monster.
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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Reeast Room is “a theme park where you can do things that you’re normally not allowed to.”
Production committee for Fragtime, studio’s most recent anime that’s playing in theaters right now, say their repeated attempts to communicate have yielded no response.
Last remaining member of original group of 20 founding idols announces graduation, says she “still loves AKB48.”
One of Japan’s best katana-collection museums recreates its swords in miniature form for you to cut up your desserts with.
Tear-jerking reports from multiple artists as studio, which produced a theatrical anime this year, erases its online presence.
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The most hated forced social activity of the year in Japan could be changed to make everyone happier, Twitter user says.
Will our UFO-chasing reporter finally get the answers he’s been looking for since the alien encounter he says he had in high school?
The ramen croquette is here to satisfy all our guilty pleasure hunger food cravings at once.
OK kids, did you remember to finish your homework, brush your teeth, and smash every pot in the village?
Mickey, Minnie, Pooh, and even Baymax turn into traditional symbols of good luck and the Chinese Zodiac to help ring in 2020.
Bringing one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most legendary anime films to life is a tall order, but they just might have pulled it off.
Too busy for a sit-down meal at the Pokémon Cafe? Let Pikachu help you quickly satisfy your cravings for the sweetest meal of the day!
President of Gainax, production company that made Evangelion TV series, allegedly told her “It’s practice for when you become famous.”
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