I am very honored to have received a copy of the Japan Notes newsletter from the Japan American Society of St. Louis. I wrote a short article about my recent presentation at UM-St. Louis regarding Confucian (儒家) teaching in Anime. You can read this article along with coverage of Sake at Seki, a wonderful St. [...]

Here’s an interesting article on Scanlators – folks who nuke their import manga to soften the glue, remove the pages, scan, then photoshop in translations into the manga themselves, then distribute on the internet Not that I’d ever help anyone *cough* with any *cough* translation projects like this. Essentially, this article shows the scanlator’s argument [...]

The other day, I was helping one of our faculty in the Center for Hispanic Studies publish a narrated web presentation, a good portion of it concerning God’s First Commandment: You shall have no other gods before [YHWH], as found in the book of Exodus, chapter 20. Many of the slides contained familiar imagery, but [...]