Manga in America have age ratings like All Ages or 16+, but who decides these ratings, how do they decide them, and how consistent are they? Some schools have pulled manga from the shelves over ...

The 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election took place yesterday, and ahead of this some manga creators expressed concerns about language used by political party Sanseito related to anime, manga ...

The anime The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior (a.k.a. Higeki no Genkyō to naru Saikyō Gedō Last Boss Joō wa Min no tame ni Tsukushimasu. in Japanese), which debuted in 2023, ...

Japanese production conglomerate Big West and Robotech producer Harmony Gold finally reached an agreement over the rights to Macross.

Ever think the current wave of reincarnation isekai could be more… well… metal? Good news: now there’s one that is! Kasuga Ryo’s Isekai Metaller is coming ...

True to its name, Anime Taizen—the second word of which translates to “a book that collects all things related to the matter”—is the world’s largest comprehensive database on anime. Now the database ...

How Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Mawaru Penguindrum explores the many ways we defy fate and persevere through exercises in fantasy. The Takakura siblings—triple protagonists of Kunihiko Ikuhara’s Mawaru ...

The second season of Grand Blue Dreaming will be here on July 7, so the anime is using LA’s Anime Expo 2025 to hype the release. And it’s doing it in a very unique way — by letting you almost ...

Shirobako has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the anime season: a delightful office comedy about the work of actually putting together anime. This is a very meta premise, with more than its ...

One Reiji Miyajima series deserves the company of another, and that’s exactly what we’re getting in a new piece of art that mixes the creator’s The Shiunji Family Children and Rent-a-Girlfriend. Both ...

Most of Rumiko Takahashi’s manga series juxtapose the mundane with the unbelievable in unique ways. Urusei Yatsura twists Japanese folklore into a sci-fi harem series, for example. Inuyasha sends its ...

Between the new City Hunter movie on Netflix and an upcoming Cat’s Eye anime adaptation, it’s a big couple of years for Tsukasa Hojo fans. His two biggest series have always been popular, but they’re ...