The Manga Boom and the Backordered Backlist
Manga sales have been on the rise over the last few years, and 2020 looked to continue that trend. But once the pandemic hit, there was a lot of uncertainty. New...
GameStop Chews On Its Future
GameStop is a regular topic in this column. That should be no surprise as it's the largest video game retailer chain in the world, and GameStop has been instrumental in pushing...
The Data on Best Buy Beta
Odds are you either have an Amazon Prime membership or know someone who does. After all, about half or more of US households have a subscription so they can get free...
Will Sony’s Deal Roll On?
After going back and forth for a while, this past December brought confirmation that Sony, owner of Funimation, would be buying Crunchyroll from AT&T. But is it possible the deal will...
Small Packets, Big Changes
All of Japan is in one timezone, Japan Standard Time, which, because of Daylight Savings Time, currently runs 13 hours ahead of the US Eastern Time Zone. So when this post...
Toys R Us Plots Its Comeback…Again
Toys R Us' bankruptcy led to one of the biggest US retail collapses in recent history. It was a brand that had been around for years and had iconic marketing, but...
Lucky Clovers
Today is St. Patrick's Day. And because it won't fall on a Wednesday again until 2027, I decided to have a little fun and look for some St. Patrick's Day-related anime...
AT&T Directs DirecTV to the Exit
AT&T's struggles have been well-documented. And one of the things they've been planning on to help them is to get rid of DirecTV. And now they've done it!
...Sort of.
When AT&T...
Goodbyes to Fry’s
The COVID-19 pandemic has been rough for people as well as businesses. Store closings were at or above record-setting levels, and this year is expected to keep up the pace.
It's really...
Seven Seas Sails Toward Some Revisions
Translation is an art. It's especially difficult when translating between two dissimilar languages. For native English speakers, Japanese tends to be one of the hardest languages to learn, although it doesn't...