What’s better than a British person with a British accent speaking Korean? New Moon star Robert Pattinson, speaking Korean with a British accent. Personally, he can speak whatever language he wants and it’d still have the effect of busting my ovaries....

From Rekuru: Here it is. When the cultural bomb of Ninja Scroll (Yoshiaki Kawajiri, 1993) hit American shores, the Japanese entertainment industry could assure itself of two things: 1) Its national role as tastemaker to the West was assured for one...

Anime contains so many different types of ninja characters. There are those who provide comic relief and there are those who help move the story forward. Some are spies for their masters while others are ruthless killers. It was difficult for me to...

From Rekuru: It will sometimes happen that I post about bands I don’t listen to myself, but there are so big I figure people should know about them. A drunken middle-aged man in a bar once told me that I would never understand Japan until I could...

In the West we often don’t view tofu eaters very well. Probably due to a deep distrust of people who won’t eat a chicken wing when offered one. The East on the other hand has no problems with people eating tofu. It’s just part of the usual diet. ...