Even if you’ve never heard of Japan’s Toei Company, chances are you’re familiar with some of the iconic titles they’ve helped bring to life. As the majority shareholder of Toei Animation, Toei has ...

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

Oscar-nominated Japanese anime director Isao Takahata, who co-founded the Studio Ghibli and was best known for his work “Grave of the Fireflies”, has died aged 82, the studio said on Friday. “(His ...

DLE Inc. has launched a new animation production approach titled “Alternative Anime” in response to structural challenges facing the Japanese anime industry, including production delays, studio ...

The studio established a Global Strategy and Content Creation department last year, a formal expression of a direction it had been moving toward for some time. “The era when anime was something made ...

Aniplex president Nishimoto Shu has unveiled a new global strategy aimed at deepening the studio's international footprint ...

You’d think the number of animators would grow accordingly, but it didn’t increase that much,” said Fukumiya Ayano, of Nippon Anime and Film Culture Association (NAFCA), an advocacy group. In 2010 it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan’s animation industry surged 14.8 percent to reach record revenues of $25 billion (3.8 trillion yen) in 2024, with most of ...

Directors Naoko Yamada and Abel Góngora spoke to IndieWire about Japan animation studio Science Saru’s upcoming historical ...