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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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It’s a bad day at work for driver of a shipment made entirely of tinder.
We gave our hungriest/thirstiest reporters a stack of cash for all the wine, prosciutto, and steak they wanted, but did they hit the six-figure mark?
Side characters Sailors Uranus and Neptune take center stage for new bra and pantie set designed with the wearer’s comfort in mind.
Cashier follows customer’s request to the letter but still gives him the last thing he expected.
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The audience is asked to refrain from talking during the movie, but purring is totally OK.
An important reminder to always heed the old advice, “When you want to tell her how you really feel, don’t, for the love of God, tell her with poo.”
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Quite possibly the last Disney character we’d expect to be a love guru has the perfect answer to one young man’s dilemma.
A costume party in one of Tokyo’s most fashionable neighborhoods brings some beauty to the scary celebration.
Mr. Sato takes our team to Shibuya’s Halloween bash, but not before setting us up with coordinated kawaii costumes.
It might sound like a match made in heaven (or at least a lovey-dovey romance anime), but two otaku don’t always make the right combination.
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