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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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Grab your tickets and your keyblades, because two Kingdom Hearts concert series are coming with a total of 15 performances in six countries.
Pikachu and pal Rayquaza are getting ready to set up camp at the base of the tallest structure in Japan.
Even if you didn’t back their campaign, these awesome pieces of bushido fashion can now be yours.
Belle, Beast, and Big Hero 6’s biggest hero part of extensive renovations planned for the park and its neighbor Tokyo Disney Sea.
The female lead from one of one anime’s biggest recent hits stops talking in order to do some drinking.
Perhaps we’ve overestimated humanity’s naked anime enemies.
Finally, fans of the boob-centric video game franchise will get the wrist support they need.
Believe it or not, that’s the male star of the hit ninja series.
Simple craft project lets you tell your cat, in no uncertain terms, that he exists on a higher plane than you do.
Drop your books and grab the mic, because it’s time for a lesson in how to up your karaoke game.
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