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 ...

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 ...

Season 2 of Kaiju No. 8 premiered today… just two days after the original manga came to an end. While we can still enjoy the anime adaptation of Kafka Hibino’s monstrous adventures, it’s sad to know ...

Natalie Van Sistine works in different parts of anime, including as a voice actor, script writer and engineer. Her best-known acting role is as Yor in the hit SPY x FAMILY, and while she was a guest ...

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 ...

Kouichirou Itou, an anime producer best-known for working on a number of Makoto Shinkai’s movies, is back in the news because of updates in his criminal trial. Itou was originally arrested in February ...

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 ...

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: ...

As with every new installment of the Disney Twisted-Wonderland manga, we get a new protagonist. In the game, of course, the hero is you—or “Yu”—a faceless exchange student from the real world. With ...

The 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election took place yesterday, and ahead of this some manga creators expressed concerns about language used by political party Sanseito related to anime, manga ...

The Association of Japanese Animations (a.k.a. AJA) had some interesting findings for its Anime Industry Report 2024. The report looks at global sales numbers in 2023. During that year, the anime ...

Where did the idea for using healing magic the “wrong” way come from? Most people think of recovery magic as a kind of background support used to heal the injuries of allies. The idea for this series ...