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It’s no secret that anime has exploded in popularity in the past decade. What was once seen as a niche genre on late-night TV that most fans watched in three-part chunks on YouTube has now become one of the most profitable and prevalent forms of entertainment in the world. Last year alone, Japan produced over…

It’s been 30 years since Kazuki Takahashi’s Yu-Gi-Oh!originally made its debut in the pages of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine, and the franchise has returned with a special anime remake to help celebrate. While it might have started out as a much darker series than what fans would recognize it as decades after, Yu-Gi-Oh! has…

Anime fans have been spoiled for choice when it comes to classic series getting rebooted. With critically acclaimed reimaginings like 2018’s Devilman Crybaby, which sets Go Nagai’s horror shonen classic in the modern era and Science Saru’s recent take on Ghost In The Shell, offering fans an anime adaptation that delivered on being more accurate…

Kyoto is often imagined as the seat of tradition, culture, and Japanese history—and while all of that is true, it’s also a fun-loving and modern place to visit. No time is this truer than during the Kyoto International Manga Anime Fair!

Japanese people used to beone of the heaviest smokers on the planet,so cigarettes have always appeared in anime. But rarely as an object of focus. They were simply too commonplace for that, so they became part of the background until Japan did a 180 on its smoking culture, heavily regulating all things tobacco, like severely…