Fun with Japanese: The Language of Genres

The kids at episode 1 of Neon Genesis Evangelion: "Wow, this is awesome!" The kids at episode 5 (assuming they made i…

Fun with Japanese: The Language of Emotions

Think of this as my apology for only showing half of Sasuke's face last time. We've already done a language segment on ho…

Fun with Japanese: The Language of Battle

What's a shonen anime without a good fight? Some of the most awesome sequences in anime are connected to combat. We also get …

Fun with Japanese: The Language of Weather

Ah, what a lovely backdrop, too bad it's just a picture. Welcome back gang. We've had a lot of variety in our weather lat…

Fun with Japanese: The Language of Love

It took Daisuke 19 episodes to tell Riku how he felt. When it comes to anime relationships, that's not so unusual. Until an a…

Fun with Japanese: The Language of Food

If you thought this was a lot of food, you haven't watched Dragon Ball Z. It's the holiday season, there's lots of pa…

Fun with Japanese: The Language of Death

It may seem a little bit odd to classify death as an aspect of Japanese culture that could ever be fun, but in the world of anime…