Japan Powered
Kaiju Girl Caramelise: Love Crushes All!
The Advantages of Fewer
The Price Paid for Being Born in the Free, Independent, Egotistical Modern Age
Involuntary Consent and the Japanese AV Industry
Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You Shows Anime Can Depict Adults
Mono no Aware and the Limits of Words
Finished a Video Game and Feeling Depressed? Here’s Why and What to Do About It
Chainsmoker Cat: Controversy, Commentary, and Censorship
The Dangers in My Heart: Exploring the Dangers of Puberty
The Spirit of Japan: A Lecture in 1916 Foreshadowing World War II
The Dead Internet and Dead Manga
Agents of the Four Seasons: When the Prince and Princess Save Themselves and Each Other
Roll Over and Die is a Roll Down a Rocky Hill
A Librarian’s Preservation Tips for Physical Media Collectors
Akane-banashi Brings Cultural Enrichment to Anime Watchers
What Does Sony’s Ending of PlayStation Physical Media Mean for Public Libraries?
Witch Hat Atelier, A Magical Fantasy that Uses Quiet Menace Well
Recent Anime I’ve Dropped, Finished and Forgotten, or Felt Meh About
Commodification and the End of Anime
My Gift LVL 9999 Unlimited Gacha: Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon, I’m Out for Revenge! Junk Food with References
Quoting from Confucius’s The Analects
Japanese Girl Bands and Men’s Protect and Provide Instinct
Getting Started with Gunpla: Lessons from My First Model Kit Build
“Mashle Magic and Muscles” Smashes Harry Potter and Superman Together
Looking Beyond the Walls of Attack on Titan
On Literacy: In a Higher Register
When What you Enjoy Becomes Your Work
Manga and Book Reading’s Decline in the US
My 35 Most Enjoyed Anime
Shiboyugi: Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table Offers a Media Literacy Challenge to its Watchers
How Short-Form Content is Changing Anime
What Journal with Witch Teaches Us About Sorrow and Personality
The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You (Really Better Than You’d Think)
Small, Overlooked History: Golden Bat Cigarettes and the Role of Cigarettes in World War II
The Beautiful Dancer of Edo – A Fairy Tale From Japan
Breakages and Outgrowing the Current Host
The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Gamer Mentality and the Ultimate Power Trip Isekai: Overlord
My Note-Taking Method: A Way to Read, Remember, and Write Better
Japanese Rock’s Place in My Music Playlists and Maybe in Yours?
Anachronisms in Anime
The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses
Should You Read Musui’s Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai?
Not All Heroes Draw Their Swords: Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth in Modern Anime
This Monster Wants to Eat Me: the Guilt that Drives Someone Toward Death
15 Years of JP Writing
Meandering Musings I: A Selection of My Poetry
Violet Evergarden: Revisiting a Great Anime
The Anime Love Handbook: Learn How to Avoid Romance In A Few Simple Steps
The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity
“Never Accepting What You Want,” One of the Themes of Urusei Yatsura
The [American] Politicization of Anime
How Does Being an Idol Fan Benefit You?
Could South Korea or Japan Disappear?
The “Precious Memories” Theme in Anime
Suzume: A Door Opens to Another Coming of Age Story
Ren, Book 3 of the Teahouse Mysteries, is Now Available
Witch Watch: Rom-Com With True Wingmen
Secrets of the Silent Witch
My Happy Marriage: The Strength of the Feminine
Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze: A Different View of Masculinity
My Dress Up Darling Season 2
Be Kind; Rewind! (Re)Introducing Fun Retro Media and Vintage Technology to Libraries
A Mecha Pilot’s Introduction Handbook
What Does “Anime Tourist” Mean?
The Legacy of Hakuin Ekaku
Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? The Doormat and the Emotionally Unbalanced
Is AI Translation the Future for Anime and Manga?
Please Put Them On, Takamine-san: Ecchi on the Path to Censorship
Rock Is a Lady’s Modesty: Music as a Sexual Identity
Takopi’s Original Sin
The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom