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 ...

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 ...

Last year, the Japan Animation Creators Association (Janica) partnered with publisher Dai Nippon Printing to conduct a survey of working conditions in the anime industry, and a detailed report of the ...

pictSPACE, a Japanese online shopping service dealing with doujinshi, is the latest Japanese retailer to soon lose the ability to take payments through Visa and Mastercard. This is part of a growing ...

Manga: it ain’t just about the laughs. One of the most appealing parts of the medium, as our readers well know, is the wide range of genres it spans, and with it, the wide range of emotions it can ...

Satsuki Nakamura and Kana Yuki’s Though I Am an Inept Villainess: Tale of the Butterfly-Rat Body Swap in the Maiden Court is the latest novel series to make the leap to anime. An official website went ...

If Arise was a risk, with its new take on familiar characters, SAC_2045, the most recent take on Ghost in the Shell, is like revisiting old friends. We’re back to the characters of the Stand Alone ...

Milky Subway takes place in a spacefaring world that’s at once futuristic and retro. There are hovercars, space subways, and aliens. But everything is lived-in and well-used, and these futuristic ...

In I Want Your Mother to Be with Me!, Ryo is working part-time while trying to pass his accounting exam. He’s also head over heels in love with his coworker, Yuzuki, though she doesn’t know that yet.

So what did we learn from this list? It seems that the popularity of magical girl anime among U.S. fans is firmly striated into just a few tiers. There’s Sailor Moon in a class of its own, then ...

The Japanese brand UNIQLO is known for its everyday classic tees, bottoms and outerwear, but also for its anime collaborations. Recently, the brand launched DAN DA DAN, Mofusand, and Dragon Ball DAIMA ...

Aika is, as she tells us at the beginning of Pretty Pretty Please, a totally normal 15-year-old. She has average abilities and no secrets. She even makes friends with loner Zira during lunch, setting ...