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In Japan, life can be rough, especially in the anime industry. Japanese animators often live below the poverty line, and are often overworked and underpaid. However, the same also seems to go to seiyuu or voice actors, especially the ones…
Who doesn’t love reading a creator’s best work? Goo Ranking asked the Japanese community to rank the top masterpieces in all of manga. 10. Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor Mangaka: Nobuyuki Fukumoto Genre: Drama / Psychological Volumes: 65 (Ongoing) Quick Pitch: Kaiji is good-for-nothing loiterer who wastes his life…
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Over the past few years, Coca-Cola has shown a willingness to mix things up with its visual design in Japan. Sure, the brand’s iconic logo and distinctive shade of red are always part of the package, but Coca-Cola also likes to add…
I started to think about this during the current fight. It seems to me that Luffy is becoming much stronger than Sanji and Zoro, he is basically in another league. Before the Time Skip I feel that at the beginning of the…
Reading one-shot manga is a great way to experience wonderful stories if you are short on time! The stories are self-contained personal tales that can make you laugh, cry, or think about life’s struggles. Many of them are no longer…
Pancakes for breakfast This woman recently shared a bunch of pictures of her incredible looking meals during a stay at a Japanese hospital, and people are wondering they can get checked in. The costs were mostly covered by standard insurance…
While you may think of anime as just fancy, adult cartoons, there are actually plenty of reasons anime is great for kids. Aside from being just plain fun, anime imparts many lessons other kids’ shows remain incapable of addressing. So what are the reasons parents…
Besides cars, electronics and a unique culinary culture, Japan’s other global export is its anime industry. Hugely popular around the world, anime is often many people’s first look into Japanese culture and can even inspire people to make the leap to move to…
The manga’s low sales may be yet another symptom of the failing manga industry, though some netizens think otherwise. Despite the still monstrous popularity of some manga like One Piece and Dragonball, the manga industry has been in decline for some time, thanks to…
Studio Ghibli is already planning to make its own official theme park in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It’s called Ghibli Park, and it will boast a unique “19th century science fantasy style,” which fans might remember from such Ghibli films as Howl’s Moving Castle.…
Japan will never fail to fascinate with their advanced technology, incredibly polite citizens, spotless streets and world-renowned manga (Japanese-style comics). Animes like Ghost in the Shell, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Detective Conan have gained steady followings with fans from all over the world. Thousands of fans flock…
10: Gookmul Knight Of Ribs – South Korea 9: Nissin Demae Ramen Straight Noodle Spicy Tonkotsu Flavour – Hong Kong 8: TTL White Wine Carbonara Noodle – Taiwan 7: Mom’s Dry Noodle Dan Dan Noodle – Taiwan 6: Red Chef…
In Japan, voice actors, or seiyuu as they’re called, are treated like pop stars in their own right. Not only do they voice animated characters or provide the Japanese dub for foreign films, but also star in live-action films and…
Japan has now lost one of the most important figures in its animation industry, as legendary Grave of Fireflies director and Studio Ghibli co-founder, Isao Takahata, has now passed away. Several Japanese newspaper outlets have reported that his health has…