An American manga fan uses his smartphone's AI function to translate Japanese manga one text bubble at a time. It's not just English speakers who are frustrated. One young manga fan visiting from ...

The global phenomenon of Japanese anime and manga is attracting hordes of piracy websites that illegally sell the popular content. NHK has learned that a Chinese court has found three nationals ...

Like several of its characters, Dragon Ball fighting games have had many lives. From tight 2D brawlers to more ...

It is difficult now, after three long decades of deadening deflation, to imagine how truly wild the 1980s' bubble was in Japan, and how speculation upended its strait-laced culture. Kazukuni ...

A related Japanese term is "manga," which refers to animated cartoons and comics in general, not necessarily in the anime style. Outside Japan, the terms manga and anime are often used synonymously.

Gantz follows Kei Kurono, who gets involved in a violent after-death game in which he needs to kill aliens in order to ...

various forms of Japanese culture are being portrayed in anime and manga. These shonen manga were the very best to conclude ...

Together, these studies present a compelling and consistent story of the Japanese economy. Financial system problems, largely triggered by the bursting of the asset price bubble in the early 1990s, ...

Tetsuya Chiba, the brilliant mangaka behind Ashita no Joe, is the first ever manga creator to earn Japan's Order of Culture award.

Innovations in the African film industry are increasingly attracting the attention of creators of Japanese anime and manga. After the COVID-19 pandemic, the popularity of and demand for Japanese ...

In a career spanning more than 50 years, Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano has gained a following as an animator, illustrator, ...

Years ago, the great hero Ortega bid farewell to his wife and child on a quest to defeat the villainous Archfiend Baramos.