L Quotes from Death Note: 14+ revealing thoughts translated and explained
New translations and explanations of L quotes from Death Note.
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13+ Chilling Light Yagami Quotes That Will Make You Think
New translations from the Japanese of Light Yagami quotes from Death Note. Hopefully these new renderings of Yagami light’s words give a clearer picture of what Yagami, and by extension, Death Note’s Author was trying to say.
Best Japanese Christmas Cards of 2023
Christmas is coming. Japan does design stuff better than most places. Even traditional western stuff. So why not get some Japanese stationary in the form of a Japanese Christmas Card for the festive season? Japanese don’t celebrate Christmas as a holiday since it’s primarily a Shinto and Buddhist nation. Christmas has been adopted in Japan …
A List Demon Slayer Pillars and their characteristics
A hashira 柱 in Japanese is usually some kind of large beam that holds up a house or building. Which is to say, a pillar. In the same way, the Hashira or Pillars are the members of the Demon Corps in the Demon Slayer manga/anime franchise are the Demon Slayers who hold up the large …
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The 16 Luffy Quotes with the biggest life lessons!
Who says that manga can’t teach you life lessons? The character of Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece has a habit of coming out with surprisingly wise one-liners, observations and snippets of wisdom. His single-pointed devotion to a purpose. His naive-to-the-point-of-endearment purity. His unwavering belief in himself and unshakeable commitment to all those who have …
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Are Kanji Tattoos Cool?
Is there such a thing as a cool kanji tattoo? Can Chinese character ink be hip? Can Japanese lettering tattoos be good on a gaijin? These are the questions we tried to answer in this discussion between a native English speaker, and a native Japnese speaker. Don’t fall in to the trap of getting any …
Bad Kanji Tattoos
I had a chat with my friend Ai about what we thought were our top 10 Kanji fails. The transcript of our talk is outlined below, along with the images we talked about. We tried not to “dig the boot in” too much into any of these people and their Chinese character tattoos. Hopefully, this …
Japanese letter tattoos – ideas, pictures, dos and donts to get yourself a cool kanji tattoo
I’ve seen a lot of Japanese letter tattoos. Some of them aren’t pretty. Some of them are pretty. And some of them are pretty meaningless. So here I’ve put a list of my favorites, and some notes about what is, erm, probably best avoided. I’ve also got a list of what I consider bad or …
19 Anime Miko, Shrine Maidens and Shinto Priestesses with images
We list 19 different anime titles that include Miko, Shinto Priestesses & Shrine Maidens. We also look at the question of why Miko are so common in Anime.
Japanese Folklore & Shinto Mythology in Anime – (Talking in Japanese & English) 神道と民話とアニメの話し（日本語と英語)
A look at the common Japanese mythology in anime, with a focus on Shinto and Buddhism.
