I was going to respond to Richard, but you are quite right. It is commonplace to refer to shojou and even bishojou as genres.

Even though Richard is right—the words attempt to describe the audience—the meaning of the words has been altered by otaku.

Richard's post was probably designed to be a pageclick =p

...with emphasis on the THREE years.

Just don't touch the helm or you lose ALL YOUR SPELLS FOR THE WHOLE DAY!

Well, look: I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but in many ways the quote is not an example of buffoonery. Propaganda is not some massive monolithic strategy. It seeps into the smallest of cracks.

It is certainly healthy to get vaccines, but it is also healthy to questions why you need them. Now, the reality is that many…

I wonder if that is because THE JEWS WERE A NOMADIC PEOPLE SO THEY LEFT SHIT EVERYWHERE.

ffs.

"Trek '09 was an innovative film"

Someone is deep in denial.

Well don't worry too much about it Richard. I have it on good authority that the first episode of the next season is reminiscent of the Ep 1 S 3 of Sherlock Holmes.

Actually I'm not so sure Hamas is using terrorism in this particular case. It's safe to argue that their goals are political, but I'd say they are far more existential. Hamas is fighting a traditional war, in this case.

Defenders of Israel will likely also claim they are fighting an existential war, but their actions…

heh. Repressed populations that refuse to be repressed are so bothersome!

"Let's run this down. Hatsuna used her powers to their limit (and thus "hung up," which prevented her from using her powers for a period of time). After Kuroha and Murakami left for the lab, she regenerated herself from a pile of goo (most likely hanging up again). Then, as Kazumi lay cut in half, Hatsuna somehow…

If you want to know what a good American adaptation of a Dirk Gently TV show would look like, watch the X-Files episode Jose Chung's From Outer Space.

I appreciate that Seraphna. I hope my bulletpoints help some readers understand this and other stories out of Japan.

Thanks for the response Helios. I like that Kotaku has writers like Brian and Richard that share news stories from Japan, but I think they oftentimes miss a chance to explain to Kotaku readers more about the situations they are sharing.

I should also say that this is often the case when Americans evaluate elements of…

I'd like to add two important notes to Brian's explanation that I hope may help readers understand just how easy it is to misinterpret things like this:

1: Japan is a high context culture. In an instance like this, a literal translation of the words alone are not enough to understand exactly what the speaker means. To…

And here I was wondering if there was any way that World of Warcraft content could get any more linear...

Well played Blizzard.

For years now, comics have gotten lost in the noise of Comic-Con — but this year felt like the worst example of that.

Well sure. Comics-inspired IPs are "cool" now. At one point in time you went there to see Clowes and Spiegelman. Now, maybe you still can, but you are mixed with thousands of people that worship…

Great review Richard.*

Black Bullet is a lot of things: an action show, a comedy, a teen romance, a fighting anime, a social commentary, and a post-apocalyptic adventure among other things. However, by trying to be so many different things at once, it rarely gives enough time to any one aspect for it to be truly…

The second one is fun though.

Russians are pretty protective of their intellectual property.

The Book and Movie are so hard to enjoy IMO, but Russians LOVE THEM.

It's odd you mention Duplin and that so many other here have enjoyed it. I thought it was very regional.

On another note, a friend I met in graduate school is the owner's son.