Yeah, I know my skills aren’t good enough yet. That’s the main reason I want to move there, to work on it more intensively and learn natural speech. I’m not ruling out teaching English, it’s just not the most ideal thing.

Haha, actually I have a terrible marketing personality and hate the spotlight! I’m usually on the writing side (social media, articles for company in-house publications, etc). But I’m not totally against teaching, depending on the age group. If it really is the best way to go, I’ll definitely look into it :)

I am. The plan is definitely to get a job first, then show up. I don’t think I could handle the uncertainty of moving pre-job, though my fiance works for a company that also has offices in Japan, so the best case scenario is that he can get a transfer. In that case, I would have some more breathing room for finding…

Sure. My plan is to move there sometime in 2016. There’s a chance some connections will work out as far as jobs go, but assuming they don’t, what do you think a good track to take for finding a job would be? I want to work in translation/localization, so the goal out of the gate isn’t to get a job in that field, but…

Yeah, I feel like the body acceptance movement has not been helped by calling everything from 00-8/10 skinny or thin. It’s becoming a meaningless descriptor.

This one is the best! http://myanimelist.net/anime/22495/He…

How about good looking great-great grandfather?

This will probably be left in the greys, but -

Try IX sometime! I’ve found a lot of VI fans really enjoy it. Agreed about the aliens. One thing I love about it is that you can tell the team of creators just put all they had into it and that shines through.

I don’t get the appeal of idol shows but a friend of mine (holla, Koda) explained them in the best way, to paraphrase: “it’s a harem show without the useless male protagonist.”

They can, but I doubt you will see it topping anime polls, if they even consider it anime. Most of us here certainly don’t consider “American anime” to be a phrase that makes sense.

the results of this Japanese poll ...

When instead of shipgirls/swordboys we come full circle and have:

Booo. You already have KanColle. Let us have our KanColle without you guys needing your version of our KanColle.

This is a really cute dress from an old guard Harajuku brand. I know that has nothing to do with anything but it’s always cool to see people who are into fashion and super girly things but also weapons.

Heh, I was hoping her first project was named as a Cowboy Bebop reference (which to be fair is still a Beatles’ reference).

I agree with most of what you’re putting down but I would not be so confident on judging weights. My mom and I are both under 5’4.” I’m less than 110 and you would not look at me and think I am like, shockingly thin or anything. My mom is closer to 120 and probably looks more like 110 because of a muscular build.

on point

By “host style” I don’t think they mean don’t wear nice shirts and suits. They mean don’t wear unbuttoned shirts/deep Vs, gaudy necklaces, tons of hair gel, etc. Like so: