Browsing: Anime

When you examine the history of anime and manga, particularly in the US, the importance of Pokémoncan’t be overstated. Those first adventures spawned a sprawling multimedia franchise that continues to this day and helped give rise to both the anime boom in the US and made publisher VIZ a manga powerhouse

When I sat down to play Orbitals at this year’s Summer Game Fest, it felt appropriate that we weren’t given Herman Millers or high-backed “gamer chairs,” but bean bags. There, on the carpeted floor of an improvised living room, complete with a bunk bed and an old-fashioned entertainment console, my co-op partner and I watched…

Science SARU, the studio behind Dandadan, has released several unique anime films and series ever since its establishment in 2013. While the studio was fairly well-known in the industry before Dandadan, its popularity only skyrocketed after its major Shonen Jump hit. Before adapting its biggest Shonen series, Science SARU spent over a decade releasing visually…

Titan Manga hasunveiled the front cover and artof the upcoming first volume ofResident Evil: Death Islandmanga series. The manga is an adaptation of the 2023 CG animated film of the same name in the Resident Evil franchise, with the first volume releasing in bookstores and comic shops on September 29, 2026. 

Maybe you’ve sped through That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Chainsmoker CatorDaemons of the Shadow Realmand you’re already foaming at the mouth for a new series to tackle

With its sheer ubiquity in American pop culture, it’s easy to take for granted how recently it was that anime was exported to the States. There are early examples as far back as the 1960s and 70s: Astro Boy is widely considered to be the first example of an anime finding immense success being syndicated…

My final demo at Summer Game Fest 2026 (I promise this is the last story) was the retro-anime-styled Orbitals. As a Switch 2 exclusive, it was also one of the bigger games being showcased inside Nintendo’s briefing area. Orbitals is billed as a two-player puzzle adventure game, which can be played both locally and online. The SGF…

At Anime Expo 2026, the Solo Leveling anime got a new movie announcement: Solo Leveling: Beyond the System. It picks up right after Solo Leveling season 2, Arise from the Shadow, and moves the main story ahead. So this isn’t another recap film. It’s a real sequel, not a side trip

The last game I had the chance to check out at Nintendo’s Summer Game Fest was Orbitals– an 80s/90s anime-inspired co-op game that oozes style. As someone who grew up with many of the anime that this game takes visual inspiration from, I wanted to see what all there was to Orbitalsbefore its release. After…

Citing a Japanese government official, Kyodo News on Monday reported that Tokyo intends to use ODA funding to help about 10 developing countries, including Vietnam and Indonesia, combat the growing infringement of copyrights related to Japanese manga, anime, and video games