In early September, the legendary animator Miyazaki Hayao announced his retirement as feature filmmaker for Studio Ghibli. This news story, which was covered globally, raises questions about the ...

LONDON—The performers spoke in Japanese, but the British audience remained mesmerized throughout the play. The daunting project of transforming one of Japan’s most popular animated movies into a ...

The Bitchu Bingo region (Ibara City and other parts of western Okayama Prefecture, Fukuyama City and other parts of eastern Hiroshima Prefecture) is known as a production center of high-quality ...

Studio collar known as "Evangelion New Theater Version" and Dwango launched the "Japan Animation (Fair) Exhibition" as a joint project to explore the possibilities of Japanese animation. The logo is ...

By Linda Pasquini Feb 18 (Reuters) - Japanese director Yoshitoshi Shinomiya wanted his anime feature film debut "A New Dawn" to convey the value of preserving tradition and landscape in the face of ...

Hayao Miyazaki, right, one of animation's most admired and successful directors, shares a laugh with Toshio Suzuki, chairman and producer of Studio Ghibli Inc., as they shake hands during a news ...

The Association of Japanese Animation has sort of a strange timetable for its annual Anime Industry Report. The full report is published in December, but preliminary data is released in the middle of ...

CHENGDU, China, April 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- During the 2025 Chinese Spring Festival, the Chengdu-produced animated film Nezha 2 became a global sensation, ranking among the top five ...

EXCLUSIVE: The director behind My Grandfather is a Nihonjin, an animation about the Japanese immigrant experience in Brazil, has said she did not want to lean too heavily into anime but forge her own ...

On movie distribution sites such as YouTube, I sometimes see Japanese animation with subtitles such as English, Italian, Portuguese, etc. However, adding subtitles to animation is called "Fan sub ...