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It is All About the Hair: The Color of Purity 3 Mar 2013 | 11:33 pm
White is the purest of colors. White haired characters have an aura of strangeness and other-worldliness. Their purity isn’t associated with cuteness or moe. Cute is the color of Yellow, Pink, and Or...
The Way of the Gods: Shinto and its Impact on Japan’s Strange Folklore 2 Mar 2013 | 01:59 am
Delving into the world of folklore as much as I have, I’ve come across a lot of very strange beliefs. While weird beliefs aren’t limited to Japan, not by a long shot, the Japanese certainly don’t disa...
The Historical Origin of Panty Fan Service 25 Feb 2013 | 03:50 am
Up-skirt shots dominate good portions of anime. This fan service is used for comedic effect and, of course, titillation. Have you ever wondered where this odd fixation originated? Well, it turns out t...
Jorogumo–’The Whore Spider’ 24 Feb 2013 | 12:39 am
One day a logger was going about his work. Since logging is an exhausting business, seeing as how this was Edo period Japan and the chainsaw hadn’t been invented yet, the man decides to take a short b...
It is All About the Hair: The Color of Royalty 19 Feb 2013 | 09:21 am
It all started with clams. At the dawn of civilization, they were harvested for their purple dye. Supposedly one clam only had a single drop of dye. Anime has certainly killed many clams! Purple hair...
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 12 Feb 2013 | 09:18 am
What does an American live-action children’s show from the 90s have to do with Japan? Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was a mashup from a Japanese superhero show called Super Sentai. Being a kid of the l...
Coverage of Ohayocon 2013 5 Feb 2013 | 09:03 am
Our con-man, Zach, brings us more anime convention coverage with Ohayocon! This time, it was not all fun and games, unfortunately… On January 18th-20th, I attended Ohayocon 2013 with my group of frien...
The Curse of the Kleenex Commercial 1 Feb 2013 | 05:28 pm
America has a whole host of urban legends surrounding television shows and movies. Probably the most famous is the legend of the cursed movie set, which claims that for years after the movie Polterge...
It is All About the Hair: Water and Sky 29 Jan 2013 | 07:53 am
Blue is a complicated character color. There are 2 main shades of blue: ultramarine and “true blue” cyan. Both shades are associated with wisdom and knowledge. Blue heads have different piles: ultrama...
Nuppeppo–The Blobby…Monster…Thing… 23 Jan 2013 | 11:51 pm
Japanese folklore is populated by many a weird critter. I am constantly amazed by the bizarre menagerie of monsters that Japanese believed populated their home country. Possibly the strangest I’ve c...
