Wang is convinced Chinese animation can become every bit as big as Japan’s anime business, a multimillion-dollar industry that at one point, in the early 2000s, was the fastest-growing segment ...

Zag, the independent animation studio founded by Jeremy Zag, “Miraculous” co-creator and producer, is opening an outpost in Japan and has appointed former Toei Animation boss Kanji Kazahaya as ...

Immediately after WWII, the United States occupied Japan and imported nearly as much American culture as it did soldiers. For years after the war, animation from abroad (namely the U.S.) was more ...

Smoke billows from a Kyoto Animation building in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 18, 2019. A murder trial began Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, for the 2019 deadly arson attack on the Kyoto animation studio ...

A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a 45-year-old man to death for setting fire to the renowned Kyoto Animation studio in 2019, which left 36 people dead in the country’s worst mass killing ...

Animation has evolved beyond the realm of Saturday morning cartoons. From foul-mouthed adult capers like Archer to generation ...

The Toei Animation film is directed by Inoue Takehiko and is adapted from his manga cartoon series about high school, youth romance, delinquency and sports. The cartoon was first published between ...

In 2021, The New York Times published a report that indicated some animation workers in Japan were making as little as USD$200 a month, driving many out of the industry.

Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio of Miyazaki, will become a subsidiary of Nippon Television Network Corp., both sides said Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Credit: AP/Chris Pizzello ...

The suspect in a 2019 arson attack at an animation studio in Japan went on trial Tuesday, pleading guilty to the murder of 36 people. Shinji Aoba, 45, is charged with multiple counts of murder ...