Compared to other forms of media, Japanese animation has always had a penchant for teenage protagonists, and the rising popularity of slice-of-life-genre anime means that every TV season in Japan has ...

Touching on themes as disparate as sex and death to science fiction and romance, manga and anime caters to all ages and tastes, and historical hits projected a new image of Japan to the world.

Netflix's latest anime original, Yasuke, tells the story of Japan's first-recorded Black samurai. The anime series was created by LeSean Thomas, and features the voice of Academy Award-nominee ...

This semester, students in a new online course got to analyze Japanese culture in a novel way: through the lens of anime and manga, a style of Japanese comic books. The class is offered through the ...

She’s a filmmaker who became interested in anime movies and manga books after watching the films of Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary Japanese director who has won multiple Academy Awards.

People started talking about the high quality of Japanese “manga films.” But Japanese anime were costlier to produce than Western animations and were overshadowed by the popularity of Disney ...

Exports of anime series and films have tripled since 2014 – aided in part by sales to streaming giants such as Netflix and Amazon – and so far show no signs of slowing. Japan is a country that ...

Following Japan’s defeat in the war, the manga and anime industries shifted gears again. In 1952, artist Osamu Tezuka – who grew up watching early Disney animations – released “Astro Boy ...