Forty years after "Astro Boy" hit U.S. airwaves, Japanese manga and animation are more popular than ever Stateside.

Anime has a long tradition at the Berlinale: it was here in 2002 that Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, the environmentalist fantasy that now figures on many critics’ best of all time lists, won ...

Hollywood doesn’t make movies like Suzume, anime auteur Makoto Shinkai’s latest, ... Shinkai held a screening of the film in Tōhoku, the region devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

The Pokémon anime was building up a dramatic arc in the spring of 2011, which involved Team Rocket trying to use meteorite technology to take over Unova. Unfortunately, a major earthquake and ...

The 23rd and 24th episodes of Pokémon Black and White anime were slated to air in March 2011, but after the catastrophic Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the two-part arc was dropped from ...

Toei Animation abruptly postponed the season three finale of the World Trigger anime series. The episode was initially scheduled for 1:30 a.m. Japan Time on January 16, 2022. Toei put the airing ...

With large parts of northern Japan still affected from the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami that hit two years back, David Byrne and Sigur Rós have come out in support for the benefit appeal, allowing ...