Eat Pray Anime

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 claiming to explain the inspirations behind the manga, anime, and video games we love. But have you ever wished you could learn more than what you could by reading a Wikipedia page by 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.

Kay is a PhD candidate at the UC Santa Barbara researching the connections between Japanese religion, media & technology, and popular culture. Whether the college classroom is far in your future or in the rear-view mirror, you can learn about religion and popular culture in Japan anytime on Eat Pray Anime!