Twenty anime projects. Partnerships with the studios behind “Dragon Ball” and “Demon Slayer.” An international digital platform claiming the top revenue spot in Japan’s competitive app market. Webtoon ...

The top manga apps in the Google Play Store in Japan include Piccoma, Line Manga, Mechacomi, and Jump+. Magapoke, owned by Kodansha, is also on the list, with around 20 million installs.

This undated Yonhap file photo shows the Busan Story Market, a trading platform for original stories that can be adapted into ...

Japanese animation and comic books have exploded in popularity in the United States over the last few years. From floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to a win at this year's Oscars, the ...

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 authorities in ...

Police in Japan are investigating why a man torched a renowned animation studio in Kyoto, leaving 33 people dead in the country’s worst mass killing in almost 20 years. Officers haven’t been ...

Japan has long been Asia’s biggest producer of manga (comics) and anime (animation) for the world. But Chinese comic artists and animators are quickly coming to the forefront, especially in ...

Japan has long been Asia’s biggest producer of manga (comics) and anime (animation) for the world. But Chinese comic artists and animators are quickly coming to the forefront, especially in ...

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 ...