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.

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 ...

“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).