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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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Because it’s not like it can choose itself, is it?
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Is the landmark manga and starting point of the smash-hit anime losing its cultural relevancy?
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J-pop vocalists dress up as Miss Claus.
Daigo Umehara may be famous for playing video game Street Fighter as Evil Ryu, but he just did a very good deed.
Against the infamously difficult arcade games, sometimes you just can’t win, even when you just won.
Just because superhero Saitama’s bald head is cold in winter doesn’t mean yours has to be too.
No drinking out of the toilet for this classy cat.
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