New article: Finding Relena
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of Gundam Wing. In August, I was looking for an angle for a feature I was writing about my relationship to this show, which was…
New article: Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI?
I’m glad to finally share my new piece of reporting for Anime News Network, Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI?. This is one of the longer features I…
Of The Manga I Read In Fall, These Were Some
These days it feels like Halloween stretches out for an entire month. Between pumpkin patches, Trunk or Treat, and the neighborhood Halloween parade, I’ve spent the last four weeks escorting…
Hyping my own Otakon coverage
Mothman cosplay I saw at Otakon 2025. I don’t write very much in summer anymore. Each June, I realize that the only way I was ever able to be productive…
Otaku Journalist is 12 years old!
Twelve years ago today, I began posting on this blog. One of my professors at American University’s School of Communication encouraged us each to secure our name as a dot…