Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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Teaching an anime enrichment class: first session complete

Back in September, I got hired as an after school enrichment teacher for the local YMCA, with my topics being Japanese and anime. Each week I go to a few different elementary schools in the area and give lessons to … Continue reading

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Teaching an anime class to elementary school kids

By a stroke of luck during my job hunt about a month ago, I came across an available position that combines my two favorite subjects; Japanese and anime…

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The anime art gallery that is my room

For the past ten years or so, a little quirk of mine has been to cover every inch of my room with anime pictures and products. On a previous post, I shared photos of how my room looked last year. … Continue reading

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The Anime Preference Survey 2008 results

The results of the Anime Preference Survey (2008 version) are now posted! I opened this survey a little over 3 weeks ago (I had one in ’06 and ’07 too) and it was basically a quick survey recording general preferences, … Continue reading

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私の部屋へようこそ – Welcome to my (anime covered) room

*Click the image for a larger, better version* Since I first became an anime fan back in the late 90s/early 2000s, I’ve always tried to make my room look like an amateur “anime art gallery” of sorts; basically I try … Continue reading

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The Anime Preference Survey 2008 version

I conducted the 2007 Anime Preference survey a little over a year ago with very interesting results. If you would like to take the new 2008 version, click here. It’s basically a quick survey recording some general preferences, interests, and … Continue reading

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Manga & Anime Explosion course at UC Irvine

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how, within the past few years, anime and manga have been making their way into the world of US education, with the rise of many anime and manga-related college courses, … Continue reading

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Anime at school

Back when I first started getting into anime about seven years ago, I never thought that you could bring your passion for anime into the realm of school work, at least not here in the US. Even though I think … Continue reading

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Off to college…(to study Japanese!)

Tomorrow I’m leaving home to start a new chapter in my life; I’m going to be spending the next two years at the University of California Irvine, working towards my B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature. This summer I finished … Continue reading

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Anime & fansubs mentioned in my college text book

I don’t know if this has become a common thing or not, but this is the first time I’ve seen anime mentioned in one of my school books…

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