In Interlude, I was under the impression that all of the action takes place in Japan; however, some of the signs are a bit puzzling.            Now, I’m pretty sure that these signs aren’t in Japanese. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and guess that they’re in Korean. Maybe the Japanese producers…

I was thumbing through the many images I have on my hard drive, trying to sort them, and I ran across the following image that I forgot I saved: I’d like to put this in the Tide Breakers section of my site, but MegaTokyo isn’t an anime. Oshii… Still, we can see Piro acknowledging the…

Yep, it’s getting colder, and the precipitation is paying a visit to my house. Rain comes down like drops of water from the sky coerced by the gentle pull of gravity. Falling. Falling. Falling. Everything is wet. Yeah, I babble too much. Go look at the latest tide breaker and the usual Pic of the…

I was over at Little Tokyo the other day and my throat was feeling a bit sore so I ducked into Marukai to pick up some throat drops. I came across a curious brand named “Super Menthol” – it wasn’t the name that was curious in this case, but the slogan on the bottom.  …

While some say that the quality of education has been declining lately, it’s good to see that anime characters have dedicated teachers. In the picture on the left, Reiji-sensei from Jungle wa itsumo hale nochi Guu discusses the intricacies of math with grade schoolers.     I don’t think I saw stuff like this until I…

I was watching Late Night with Conan O’Brien the other night, and one of the sketches talked about how other countries were starting to emulate American reality TV shows. One of them was a show from North Korea that parodied the home decoration show that sends the home owners off for a couple of days…