Eat Pray Anime
Creating fun and educational YouTube videos exploring the history and culture behind your favorite Japanese media!
Eat Pray Anime is an educational YouTube channel that explores the thousands of years of religious history and culture behind your favorite Japanese pop culture products!
Let's be real—there's a lot of fluff pieces out there that claim to explain the inspirations behind the manga, anime, and video games we love. Have you ever wished you could learn more about religion and Japanese pop culture than what you could by reading a Wikipedia page yourself? Eat Pray Anime is a channel created by an expert on religion and Japanese culture and designed to take you on an enlightening and entertaining journey through Japanese media one bite-sized and rigorously researched episode at a time.
Meet Your Host!
Hi there, I'm Kaitlyn Ugoretz, but since we're all friends on YouTube, you can call me Kay! I’m a PhD candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara researching the connections between Japanese religion, media & technology, and popular culture. I grew up watching any anime I could get my hands on: Sailor Moon, Studio Ghibli, Mobile Suit Gundam, Pokemon, and Tenchi Muyo! You name it, I consumed it with a passion—I still do. I bet we have that in common. Fast forward a decade or two: I study and teach religion and anime for a living at a major university! Whether the college classroom is far in your future or in the rear-view mirror, you can learn about the fascinating relationship between religion and popular culture in Japan with me anytime on Eat Pray Anime!
How to Support
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