The Association of Japanese Animations (a.k.a. AJA) had some interesting findings for its Anime Industry Report 2024. The report looks at global sales numbers in 2023. During that year, the anime ...

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 ...

After almost 50 years, the annual Kodansha Manga Award is one of Japan’s most prestigious, well, manga awards. The winner of this year in all three categories were just announced, so let’s check ‘em ...

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 ...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba is the hot topic right now, with everyone from the New York Times to Japanese government officials talking about it. It’s a good time to be Koyoharu Gotoge, the creator ...

More details have arrived for the DIGIMON BEATBREAK anime, which was first unveiled back in March. The series is set to premiere in Japan on October 5, and more cast and staff have been unveiled ahead ...

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 ...

This month, Kodansha is releasing Volume 1 of Shimazaki in the Land of Peace in English. The series hails from Umigami author Gouten Hamada and Invincible artist Takeshi Seshimo. And fans of series ...

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End season 2 previously announced plans to debut in January 2026, and now we have a fresh preview looking at the continuation. Crunchyroll also confirmed that it will stream ...

A new original anime titled Grow Up Show: Himawari no Circus-dan (Grow Up Show: Sunflower Circus Troupe) is on the way from A-1 Pictures. Aniplex announced the production this week, featuring director ...

Ken Sugimori is a cool dude. You might think the guy who helped co-create Pokemon would be a little arrogant, spending his days in some kind of ivory tower, sleeping on top of large piles of money, ...

It’s a wish fulfillment trope that’s made it into almost every anime genre, from romantic comedies to scif-fi and fantasy. Plot circumstances drop an ordinary average guy into a close living/working ...