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 ...

Kono Manga ga Sugoi! (This Manga is Amazing!) is the annual manga magazine-y award-y thingy that lists the best manga of the year. It’s due out tomorrow in Japan, but for now, it has revealed its ...

One of Japan’s most celebrated and beloved comic book and anime creations, Urusei Yatsura delivered a total of just under 200 high-voltage weekly blasts of supernatural-and-alien-augmented ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of AX Cinema Nights, A Silent Voice is returning to theaters on October 12, available both dubbed and subbed. Lexi Marman Cowden, a professional actress who plays Shoko in the English dub, is ...

With the release of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the number of Pokémon out in the wild across various regions is now over 1,000! In fact, there are 1,008 Pokémon in total, and the official Pokémon ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new teaser trailer has arrived for the fourth Be Forever Yamato: Rebel 3199, which opens in cinemas in Japan on October 10. This one puts the spotlight on Desler’s return and Legendra ship captain ...

Anime fans around the World voted on their favorite anime songs and the results are in! Japanese media, Asahi TV surveyed 1,740 people residing outside of Japan to rank their top anisongs. The top 20 ...

The Crunchyroll Anime Awards, an anime awards show hosted by the streaming service of the same name, were held this weekend in San Francisco. The event featured 15 categories, with anime from 2018 ...