Bloomberg recently reported about the dire conditions of the anime industry, based on stories shared by many professionals, ...

Yuasa stepped down from his role as president of Science Saru, the animation studio he founded with Eunyoung Choi in 2013, ...

As the popularity of Japanese animated shows and films has skyrocketed over the past decade, a scathing UN report has prompted Japan to act on unfair and exploitative industry practices. Animators and ...

Look Back won the Animation of the Year award in the film category of this year's Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF). Oshiyama, the film's animator Toshiyuki Inoue, and sound director Eriko Kimura also ...

For Yumiko Shibata, being a voice actress was always a dream as much as a career. Bringing popular manga characters to life in animated movies and video games was rewarding, but paid so poorly that ...

KYOTO--The defendant in a horrific arson attack that killed 36 people at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio in ... to the largest in a murder case in Japan during the postwar period.

Now animated by Liden Films, the latest anime adaptation revisits the swordsman Himura Kenshin’s exploits in Meiji-era Japan to help people in need. After living a life as a political assassin ...

On Friday nights at 6 p.m., fans of Japanese animation at Ohio University meet in Scripps Hall to hang out and watch their ...

Lying unconscious on a bed before him was Shinji Aoba, accused of murder and other crimes in an arson attack at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio on July 18, 2019. Thirty-six people were killed and 32 ...

This course examines Japan’s postwar and contemporary society on the basis of Japanese film and animation. The classes are divided into two parts. The first part consists of screenings of both major ...