By the time Jojo returned to a completely non-Japanese lead, via Part 7: Steel Ball Run 's Johnny Joestar, the series had become a seinen strip. But that international touch never left, as Giorno ...

The fandom surrounding anime and manga had been gaining steam before the pandemic, but interest in Japanese pop culture surged during lockdown, especially among young people like Alducin-Borges ...

While Japanese animation has been gaining fans in the West since the 1970s, the universe of manga comics, and the anime films they spawn, remain for most shrouded in an esoteric mist.

Nevertheless, at Kyoto Seika University, which established the country’s first manga program, the number of foreign students in it has risen to 57 currently out of a total of 800 students in the ...

What To Know. Manga artist Ryo Tatsuki's The Future I Saw has sparked fear over a natural disaster occurring on July 5, 2025.. The manga, first published in 1999 and revisited in a 2021 edition ...

“I thought: ‘Anybody can make this’.” Yet Japanese manga are being eclipsed by Korean webtoons. Last year the manga print market shrank by 2.3% to ¥265bn ($1.9bn).

All too often, something gets lost in translation between Japanese manga artists and Western interviewers. Now Deb Aoki, a seasoned manga journalist, shares her secrets of interviewing Japanese ...

A Japanese publishing startup is using Anthropic’s flagship large language model Claude to help translate manga into English, allowing the company to churn out a new title for a Western audience ...

Akira Toriyama, a Japanese manga artist and creator of the influential Dragon Ball franchise, has died. He was 68. Toriyama's death was confirmed on Friday by his manga and design production ...