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 ...

Lawmakers in Ohio recently called for Kent State University to no longer use the scholarly book Anime from Akira to Howl’s Moving Castle: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation in their ...

Can you really call it an anime if it doesn’t eventually have a hot spring episode? Winter 2020 anime Seton Academy: Join the Pack! is playing into that classic trope with a special episode that’s set ...

Papa and Daddy’s Home Cooking is a relaxed, slice-of-life manga involving families and food. The two main characters, Sengoku and Harumi, are suddenly in positions of being single fathers to young ...

My Stepsister Who Tells Me to Die Every Day Tries to Hypnotize Me So I would Fall for Her…! is a manga with a long title that tells you the basic setup. Ichigaya Aoto is a high schooler who moonlights ...

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 ...

Beryl Gardinant, a self-proclaimed “humble old man,” is a sword instructor at his dojo in a rural, backwater village. In his younger years, he dreamed of glory as a master swordsman, but those days ...

The manga Room of Guilty Pleasure (a.k.a. Guilty Hole: Oshiego Shika Shimei Dekinai Mise for the original Japanese title) is getting an anime adaptation from AnimeFesta. It’s debuting on Japanese TV ...

Animator Expo, the 2014 series of eclectic creator-driven animated shorts from Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara (Rebuild of Evangelion), is chock full of succinct, brilliant ideas for animated projects.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...