On Saturday, October 3rd, and Sunday, October 4th, I attended the Japanese anime and culture event 'Mela! Mela! Anime Japan!!

Looking beyond individual titles, the potential new award is being positioned as a way to celebrate the creators, producers and studios whose work shapes the popular Japanese art form.

The event features booths of many anime-related companies, including major Japanese publisher Kodansha, best known for the ...

"[Producer] Joseph Chou and I asked: How can Japanese anime reach the same level of mainstream awareness and emotional connection that major U.S. animated films have achieved with global audiences?" ...

In the first part, we talked about why we feel a sense of nostalgia for the shrines, festivals, and rural landscapes depicted ...

"The medium is so popular now," says Leigh, who remembers when anime existed mostly on home video and hardly ever played in theaters. "My friends out of state have seen the ‘Chainsaw’ movie. It was a ...

Overseas revenues of Japanese animation exceeded local consumption for only the second time last year. But the export-led boom is expected to continue, the Association of Japanese Animations said on ...

With Japanese animation forecast to become a $60 billion business by 2030, Sony is leveraging its assets behind the category: "We are very bullish about the overall growth of anime and what that means ...

EXCLUSIVE: The director behind My Grandfather is a Nihonjin, an animation about the Japanese immigrant experience in Brazil, has said she did not want to lean too heavily into anime but forge her own ...