A group of otaku in Spain is living the dream: after forming their own dance group and learning the moves of Morning Musume, Koda Kumi, Perfume and more, the members have achieved a level of worldwide recognition. They perform annually at the Salon del Manga de Barcelona (the biggest anime convention in Spain), they do commercials for this convention and have been featured in television programs ranging from local to NHK in Japan.

In the middle of an anime episode, the young female protagonist finishes up her after school club and intends to walk home, but not before calling out: ”See you tomorrow” to her fellow classmates. They reply using the same greeting with energy.

During AnimeNEXT I sat down in a room full of people and we all got to collectively interview Mr. Kenji Kamiyama. I'm here to share with you a little information I learned from that interview.

The original intent of 91.8 was to liveblog my AnimeNEXT experience straight from the con in real-time. But we thought, “Nah, let’s make them wait. That’ll go over well.”

After a long night piloting mechas and transforming into magical superheroes, what do our favorite anime characters have to look forward to the next day? School, of course! But any first-time anime viewer should immediately notice that school life in Japan is considerably different than in most other countries.

Samurai have been called the “Cowboys of the East.” Let’s see how they would really go in a head-to-head competition. It’s like Pirates vs. Ninjas, only even more epic.

Wonderland must be some television station in Japan, because Alice tumbled down the rabbit hole and wandered her way into Japanese entertainment.

Why Women Want Yaoi: Where Tempest answers the age-old question of why women like yaoi, and offends everyone.

A typical fan watches a typical anime or plays a typical J-RPG, and suddenly the protagonists encounter a tiger, a tortoise, a phoenix and a dragon. A Japanese audience nods and laughs, while a good half of the American audience stares with wide eyes. In characteristic Japanese fashion, a joke has been made, but hasn’t been explained.

Film adaptations tend to stray from the original books to an extent. However, Hayao Miyazaki took Diana Wynne Jones’ themes and inserted the characters into a completely different storyline. The book and movie of Howl’s Moving Castle are two separate stories, with countless alterations, and several striking similarities.