Anime Diet

Spring is in the air.. at least in my mind it is… can anyone guess which series is this sweet granny from? If you watch Chihayafuru.. how do you play Karuta in real life then.. look here. Thoughts about reading manga physically or digitally? If you haven’t heard that Vertical’s going to go digital later [...]

So this is another week…..Spring is coming, what plans do you all have for the arrival of Spring? Though the map above is forecasting viewing times for Hanami in Japan, I am very sure Spring is a time for people to enjoy. Japanese people at no matter what age, is pretty studious. Masks are to [...]

This is going to be a sphere filled with many 3/11 remembrance memorial posts… but Happy St. Patty’s Day for today as well. Tsunami affected Japanese towns are still left barren after two years. Ongoing artist charity collaboration projects for Tohoku quake. WW2 air raid survivor has awareness talks to tsunami orphans. Turning a tree that survived the tsunami into art. [...]

First I have to say my apologies to the Paper for going AWOL with this column for about two weeks. Here is Round the Sphere for this week. Remember Cool Japan? Seems like the Japanese government still has it going on. Wow.. a Japanese restaurant using robots instead of dancers. Inspired by the previous hyperlink, (Paper’s [...]

Happy Single Awareness  Overpriced Commercial Holiday! Be aware that this week, I was pretty link happy, alongside Paper’s link contribution. I wish him, who is heading off to Katsukon with Shizuka, a great time. ^_^ A recent response to punishment vs. disciple. Is this bullying? I believe that I may have seen an example of this [...]

This week, Paper was great enough to remind me that there are links to round up. Are there any comments you may or may not have? Can you guess which links are mine, and which are the Paper’s? Yet one more reason why Japan is awesome. This is why Lauren and her blog are awesome.  [...]

  Ahhhhh… the blistering cold of a Japanese winter.. in my case I am inserting in cold of a NYC winter. Keeping warm is a good thing, IF (does not count if you live in CA or FL or any other warm places, because 50 degrees F is warm)…  you are experiencing winter.. how are [...]

Some news for readers of this particular column…. normally Paper posts it without fail every Friday, since he is going to doing another thing on Friday. I am changing it to about every Thursday… so yes.. round the sphere we go! If you didn’t get a chance for this manga kickstarter. take an opportunity to [...]

The greatest manga ever and will ever be. Anyone who disagrees is wrong. Isn’t it funny (not really) that constitutions never have to include specific rights for men? Excellent story. Photographs and Japan make a sublime combination. Play games and learn Japanese? Or just cheat and put everything in this font. And the best of [...]

Cherry Blossoms! In Taiwan! Gokurakutombo would make a great name for a band. Or airplane. This is refreshing. The Paper has never watched any Japanese drama but Linda is a fan. Apparently there was an interview scam involving cosplayers :/ Wait. So much preparation but no New Year’s party? This is kind of fascinating. Sam [...]

In light of recent tragedies, it’s fitting Omo laid down a succinct discourse on the nature of guns and people the day before the Connecticut shooting. I, too, had just watched the last episode of Jormungand and found the cliffhanger dropping a question as old and perplexing as history and human nature. And I love [...]

Best of the bestest cosplay ever. This is so wrong on so many levels. And how did they get those numbers? I personally prefer the stationary cafe but turtles are cool too. …most art schools don’t spend enough time teaching aspiring artists what they really need to succeed: how to manage their own business and [...]