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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Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is the latest anime series to get the 1:1-scale statue treatment.
Out for a cruise, in more ways than one.
Giant Pokémon bed makes it easy to fall asleep, hard to move around.
Haruka Yoshimura’s latest role is in a series about mahjong, but this snapshot makes the actress appear far from mundane.
This plushie of Kirby’s video game co-star wasn’t broken, but it got fixed anyway.
And to think, for all these years we’ve been using timed electronics like a bunch of chumps!
Gen Urobuchi is penning script for the King of the Monsters’ first-ever animated theatrical feature.
If you’re planning to visit this Shinto shrine’s Gym, you might want to say some prayers first.
If the early ‘90s anime and manga gets remade, Yu Watase thinks it should look like this.
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Kyoto bans tourists from geisha alleys in Gion, with fines for those who don’t follow rules
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Tokyo’s most famous Starbucks is closed
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A Gintama fan’s emotional 19-year journey to buy a proper Lake Toya bokuto wooden katana【Pics】
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