Crunchyroll Awards are big, but they could get dethroned soon by a new emerging award show in Japan.

"The medium is so popular now," says Leigh, who remembers when anime existed mostly on home video and hardly ever played in theaters. "My friends out of state have seen the ‘Chainsaw’ movie. It was a ...

Osaka-based Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation will launch ytv animation, a new brand that will leverage Yomiuri TV’s long history in animation, while also undertaking more challenging titles. The move ...

MOST ATHLETES raise their fists in triumph after a win. When Noah Lyles, an American sprinter, won gold in the Olympics 100-metre race in August, he held his hands out in front of him, wrists together ...

Japan’s anime industry reached an all-time high in 2024, climbing to JPY3.84 trillion ($25.25 billion) in total market value, according to data presented by the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA ...

Japanese voice actor Natsuki Hanae and American actor Channing Tatum arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of Crunchyroll’s “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle” held at TCL Chinese Theater ...

"[Producer] Joseph Chou and I asked: How can Japanese anime reach the same level of mainstream awareness and emotional connection that major U.S. animated films have achieved with global audiences?" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ChaO Japan’s animation industry grew by 14.8% to hit record revenues of $25BN (JPY3.8TR) in 2024, with much of the increase coming ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about women in comedy. While the highest-grossing anime film (and highest-grossing Japanese film of all time), Demon ...

Curious about Japanese honorifics in anime? Learn what common suffixes like -san, -kun, -chan, -senpai, -sensei, and -sama ...