Happy New Year everyone, I hope this year will be a good one for you and your family. I hereby selfishly give this year a second name – “The Year of Japan” because in 6-9 months I’ll be visiting the land of the rising sun! I thank all my readers again for their continued support...

In the blink of an eye the year 2010 has passed us by, I think it has been a fairly productive year for me personally but as it relates to my blog it has been excellent. Operation Visit Japan was started in January 2010 as one of my new years resolutions and twelve months later I am well on course to...

The first decade of the formerly new millennium is over. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish my supporters, blog readers, theirs friends and their families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. This Christmas will be a lot less materialistic for me but I look forward to spending some quality time...

Another month has zipped by in no time and it’s time for another update on the progress of Operation Visit Japan. Things are progressing exactly as planned and I am preparing to navigate one of the last major bumps on the road to Japan – you guessed it – Christmas! I’ve always...

The second of the three series on my interesting Fall 2010 anime list after Iron Man to get the first impressions treatment is Star Driver. Star Driver is a mecha, action type anime that looked awesome from the trailers I saw and it is being done by a studio that I liked so not much could go wrong right?...

I have never been much of a Halloween person, something about a day for the dead doesn’t go down too well for a wuss like me who is still having nightmares from that skin ripping scene in the Silent Hill movie not too long ago. Jamaicans are also largely a superstitious bunch, well at least the...

It has now been 10 months or over 300 days or over 7200 hours or over 432000 minutes since Operation Visit Japan was started ^-^. Fortunately things continue to progress as planned with no unmanageable hiccups appearing so far. Finally reconnected to the interwebs at work after moving over to a new...

The first anime from my interesting Fall 2010 anime list to get the first impressions treatment is the one I am most excited about Iron man. The super powerful and popular Marvel super hero with a badass personality of non of that “I am a super hero so lets hide my true identity” bullshit....

Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion around an important issue that impacts us all. This is my forth year participating in Blog Action Day, with the topic...

End of Summer already? Too bad? Yes I know but there is one thing to take heart from, the beginning of an all new season for all new anime series! My Interesting Summer 2010 Anime list unearthed 2 great gems in Highschool of the Dead and Occult Academy. My review of Highschool of the Dead is already...