Kadokawa Contents Academy Chief Executive Officer Tetsuya Koga (front, left) and TeamApp Inc. CEO Marilyn Montano ink a contract to implement the partnership in outsourcing films and TV projects on ...

When it comes to animation, China wants to be the next Japan. Long envious of its Asian neighbor’s success with anime, China is nurturing homegrown cartoonists and animators and encouraging them to ...

Demon Slayer is living a good life right about now, and it only has more to look forward to. With a second season on the way, the show is becoming more popular than ever, and its first movie is still ...

With blockbusters like Shinkai Makoto’s Kimi no na wa (Your Name) making waves around the world, the Japanese animation industry would appear to be bursting with vitality. Yet behind the scenes at the ...

India has become the world’s second largest anime market after China, with around 180 million fans of Japanese animated films ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's comics and animation industry intends to fight a ban on the sale to minors of comics and film depicting "extreme sexual acts" including rape, incest and child sex imposed by ...

It has been several months since Kyoto Animation experienced the unimaginable. The beloved studio found itself in mourning after an arson attack left more than 35 employees dead with many more injured ...

Hayao Miyazaki says he doesn't like giving interviews, but the Oscar-winning, megahit-making animator has strong opinions he isn't shy about sharing, as a packed room of reporters learned when he ...

But Japan’s overall love for cartoon entertainment is not in total decline, as evidenced by the booming demand for animated movies. Studio Ghibli is among the most famous animation studios, and the ...

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