Wolves, wizards and white mares... As animated epic The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim goes on release, we enter into some of the cinema’s most vivid fantasy realms.

Gyaru fashion is all about freedom and goes against traditional Japanese beauty norms. Many gyaru characters in anime are ...

Updated December 7, 2024 by Mark Sammut: Galleries have been added for every Magical Girl anime mentioned in this discussion.

Ai Hoshino from Oshi no Ko will be featured on the cover of SPUR's February 2025 issue. Mengo Yokoyari designed the artwork ...

Full of iconic moments like Totoro waiting with the girls at a misty night bus stop or sprouting towering trees from seeds, this anime set in rural Japan is a must-see exploration of childhood ...

When Netflix dropped an anime short made with generative AI in ... Twins HinaHima is slated for Spring 2025, and it's based on real Japanese TikTokers.

In addition, anime has had a massive positive influence on driving visitor numbers. The Japan Times reports, "As of September 30, 2024, Japan had nearly 27 million foreign tourist arrivals.

Dec. 13 (UPI) --A Japanese court on Friday found a U.S. airman guilty of the abduction and rape of a 15-year-old girl in Okinawa and sentenced him to five years in prison. Brennon Washington ...

Of all the tropes and genres to repeat themselves over the years in anime, perhaps none have garnered as controversial a reputation yet passionate a following as Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT).

He passed the difficult exams to obtain a Japanese medical license only seven years after he started learning the Japanese language. He says he owes his remarkable accomplishments to anime.

A US air force member stationed in Okinawa prefecture was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday on charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a girl under ... in Japan, but also drew ...

It was another banner year for theatrical Japanese animation. Of the year’s 10 top-grossing films, half were anime features, according to box-office site PickScene. That includes the year’s ...