The other day I stumbled across various YouTube videos of people who felt like they were "becoming Japanese" because of their increasing love for sushi,| Japan Powered
A discussion of progressive and sexists elements of Magical Girl anime on the example of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Vivid.| Japan Powered
Revolutionary Girl Utena is a game changer on the order of Evangelion. Like Sailor Moon, Utena is a magical girl story. The story is stuffed with| Japan Powered
It came to my attention that JP is biased. We often focus on shonen and more male oriented topics. When I initially planned this series of anime/manga| Japan Powered
Take Inuyasha and cross it with a horny 13 year old's dreams and you get Omamori Himari. I will go ahead with the disclaimer: this anime is full of anime| Japan Powered
The spiritual cousin of Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo mixes hip hop with Japan's Edo period. Surprisingly this mix with a dash of punk and graffiti| Japan Powered
When it comes to ecchi anime, the characters all need to be having fun. Although I dislike ecchi, even I know this. Too often the genre falls into| Japan Powered
Yuri is a branch of manga that deals with girl romance. The genre was originally targeted toward girls, but there is a male-targeted branch as well. Yuri| Japan Powered
I enjoyed watching Iron Chef back in the day, but when I first saw a Food Wars preview on Crunchyroll, I had little interest in it. As you likely know (if| Japan Powered
I was hesitant toward Kill la Kill when I first started watching it. First, the style of the humor tends to turn me off. The obsession with frantic humor| Japan Powered
I get it, some of you like fan-service, but fan-service has become a blight on anime as a whole. It's fine when it appears in genres you fully expect to| Japan Powered
If you are brokenhearted, anime can offer some reprieve. Relationships can be rough, and they often end. If you are like me, when I'm brokenhearted I want| Japan Powered
Yaoi, also known as Boy's Love or 801, is an offshoot of shojo manga. Shojo is categorized by the primary audience: women and girls. Yaoi is focused on| Japan Powered
Anime has a problem with body boundaries, and the problem extends to both men and women. Fan-service centers on seeing breasts, abs, pecs, panties, and| Japan Powered
What does nudity have to do with terrorism and politics? Quite a bit it seems. Eden of the East opens with a naked man who calls himself Akira Takizawa in front of the White House just as Saki Mor…| Japan Powered
Dance in the Vampire Bund often left me feeling…uncomfortable. Funimation ended up releasing an edited version for the American anime audience. If the version I watched was edited, the full v…| Japan Powered
When I saw the title Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai and the advertisement of an anime girl dressed as a Playboy bunny, I groaned. It looked bad. Like exploitative-of-women-and-badly-ste…| Japan Powered
It’s hard to review an anime that isn’t my cup of tea. Ouran High School Host Club is one of those. It is shojo, but I tend to enjoy their stories and characterizations better than sho…| Japan Powered
Modern Japan is well known for its fascination with all things robotic. This is rooted deep in their history, when they used clockwork puppets called the Karakuri Ninyao to play out folk stories du…| Japan Powered
Well paint my butt blue and call be a baboon! I actually enjoyed this series. I normally find these style of anime too random, cute, or feminine for my taste. School Rumble is most definitely rando…| Japan Powered
I’m not one for comedies, anime or otherwise. They usually strike me as dumb and trying too hard. My sense of humor leans toward satire and slap stick like Takeshi’s Castle (if you have…| Japan Powered
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun surprised me. As long-time readers know, it’s a rare comedy to make me chuckle. Kaguya-sama: Love is War is one of the most| Japan Powered
Horimiya appears to be a standard high-school rom-com, but it quickly shows how it is more. The series focuses on how people have hidden sides to their| Japan Powered
Akira is important for anime both in the West and in Japan. It seems odd, but Akira’s predecessor isn’t another anime. Rather, Akira is the child of Godzilla. So what does the teen an…| Japan Powered
JapanPowered isn’t just about anime (even if the bulk of it is). You can find all different types of anime in this section.| Japan Powered
What makes Neon Genesis Evangelion important? I asked myself this as I researched for this article. The fact the series and movies are still some of the most discussed stories suggests just how mu…| Japan Powered
Evangelion 2.22 picks up where Evangelion 1.0 leaves off…but not with another rehashed scene from the original series. Thankfully 2.0 has very few of those compared to the first film. You Ca…| Japan Powered