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TOKYO – Japan’s anime industry, one of the country’s leading cultural exports, is beginning to confront the arrival of artificial intelligence in production as studios grapple with labor shortages, rising output and deep concerns over copyright and the future of animators’ jobs

Some anime are one-and-done. Others? They pull you back in the moment you hear the opening theme. Suddenly, you’re telling yourself you’ll “just watch one episode, and before you know it, it’s 2am, you’re emotionally attached all over again, and somehow Episode 19 has broken your heart for the second (or fifth) time

Seven years after this franchise made its original anime streaming debut with Crunchyroll, a major series has confirmed it’s coming back for a new live-action feature film adaptation. It’s been a big few years for live-action anime and manga adaptations, and there are even more in production than ever seen before. It’s led to many…

Netflix begins streaming a new spin-off of the Japanese anime One Piece today. One Piece is one of the world’s most sought-after anime series. It follows Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates as they search for the legendary treasure known as the One Piece while chasing their dreams

Fantasy anime is having a moment. Though the genre has always been a big part of anime, proper high fantasy as we know it in the West has been lacking for decades. Western-style fantasy isn’t exactly prevalent in Japanese culture. That’s why we’ve had few and far between high fantasy shows out of Japan. At…