Japan & Korea Fan Articles

Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander and Squirtle: for many, choosing that first starter was the first big decision of their lives, hotly debated on the ...

In the Studio Ghibli classic My Neighbor Totoro, a round, furry forest spirit lives in the woods and has taken children's hearts by storm. Alongsid...

Few objects stand for adventure and freedom quite like the battered straw hat that Monkey D. Luffy wears across the world's oceans. To him it's not...

If a single creature stands for an entire universe, it's this yellow bundle of energy with the red cheeks. Pikachu is the face of Pokémon, plain an...

In Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away', a quiet figure drifts through the steaming bathhouse: No-Face, a lonely spirit behind a white mask who wants n...

Anyone who knows the very first episode of One Piece remembers it: a harmless-looking barrel is rolled on board, and suddenly a hungry boy in a str...

Above the Hidden Village of Konoha towers the Hokage Rock, its stone carved with the faces of the greatest ninja leaders. And it's at this very ven...

On Egghead, the island of the future, the Straw Hat crew meets the brilliant scientist Vegapunk. Instead of his vest and sandals, Luffy slips into ...

Sasuke Uchiha carries an entire tragedy with him: the survivor of a wiped-out clan, driven by revenge and an ambition that leads him ever deeper in...

Naruto Uzumaki has fought his way up from the class clown everyone laughed at to the hero of his village, powered by sheer stubbornness, a wide gri...

There's that one scene everyone who loves Studio Ghibli knows: two children waiting in the rain at a bus stop, and suddenly this huge, fluffy fores...

There's this quiet moment in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away where Chihiro rides the train to the end of the line. Night has long since fallen and t...

Anyone who's followed a young witch's move to the big city knows the secret star of Kiki's Delivery Service: Jiji, the black cat with the sharp ton...

Four elements, one world, one Avatar. In the animated series Avatar – The Last Airbender, the young Aang bears the burden of reconciling the Fire, ...

Monkey D. Luffy had a simple dream: to become the King of the Pirates. His first ship on this journey was the Going Merry – a small caravel ship wi...

Anyone who has ever strolled through a narrow Japanese alley knows this special atmosphere: red paper lanterns overhead, small izakaya eateries sid...

Behind Kurapika's calm exterior burns one of the coldest quests for revenge in anime history. As the last survivor of the Kurta Clan, wiped out by ...

In the world of Kaiju No. 8, humanity is under constant assault from giant monsters, and only the Defense Force stands against them. Of all people,...

In 2023, Netflix dared to do what many thought impossible to adapt: Eiichiro Oda's pirate epic One Piece as a live-action series with real people. ...

Red or Blue? Since the first Pokémon games on the Game Boy, the choice of starter Pokémon has divided friendships and schoolyards. Bulbasaur fans, ...

It's a nostalgia dream come true for fans of the very first Dragon Ball: the Dragon Ball FiguartsZERO Son Goku and Bulma statue captures one of the...