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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Also known as Natsume’s Book of Friends, this long-running series has a deceptive title. It’s not so much about befriending yokai as it is letting them go. Takashi Natsume is a loner with the ability ...

On August 25, Post Japan joined with Swiss Post, the United Kingdom, India, New Zealand, Australia and other countries in saying they will halt shipping parcels to the United States. They all point to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until I Meet My Husband is illustrated by BL mangaka Yoshi Tsukizuki and is about a man in relationships with other men. But it’s not your typical BL. It’s a true story—a manga adaptation of Japanese ...

Yukito Kishiro previously announced plans to release the next in the long-running Battle Angel Alita manga series this year, but those plans have changed. GUNNM: Kikou-Jutsu Senki (Battle Angel Alita: ...