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birefnet-toonout is a fine-tuned version of BiRefNet specialized for anime-style background removal. Created by sprited, this model packages work by Matteo Muratori and Joël Seytre that improves pixel accuracy from 95.3% to 99.5% on anime test sets by fine-tuning on 1,228 curated anime images. The model accepts any image as input and outputs either RGBA…

Once again, The Society for the Promotion of Japanese Animation marked this past 4th of July weekend with their annual celebration of Japanese pop culture, Anime Expo, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Indian actor R. Madhavan has raised concerns over Indian cinema losing a generation of viewers to Japanese anime and Korean content. Speaking to Cinema Express while promoting his upcoming film GDN, Madhavan said his 20-year-old son Vedaant and many of his peers no longer watch Tamil or Hindi films, describing the trend as “a big…

From July 2-5, Los Angeles hosted the 35th Anime Expo across the Los Angeles Convention Center and its surrounding venues. The annual convention brings together fans of anime and celebrates the popularity and influence of Japanese pop culture internationally. Featuring industry-first announcements, exclusive merchandise opportunities and fan events, the convention provides something exciting for all…

Anime Expeditions is a Roblox tower defense game with a vast amount of content to sink your teeth into. The game features a huge selection of modes for players to dive into, including the regular Story and Raid modes you’ll find in other similar experiences, along with features you typically don’t find such as daily…

Two things are truer now in anime than they’ve ever been: The eternal need to riff on Harry Potter is still going strong, with shows likeWitch Hat Atelier leading the charge and Mashle: Magic and Muscles making a delightful farce of She Who Shall Not Be Named’s wizarding world. The second thing is that queer…

Graphic Worlds: Anime & Comic Book Exhibition opens July 24–26 with a three-day festival celebrating anime, comics, and contemporary glass art. The opening weekend transforms Imagine Museum into an immersive fandom experience for guests of all ages.

Daemons of the Shadow Realm, based on Hiromu Arakawa’s manga, premiered on April 4 as a new 24-episode anime.

An evil child, a former shinigami, and cybernetics are what you can expect this summer anime season. There’s a new season full of anime to check out this Summer like the return of The Ghost in the Shell, the beautiful The World Is Dancing, and the highly anticipated finale of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War. Across…

I’m not Christopher Nolan’s biggest fan, I admit it, but I’ve got no choice but to be grateful, as a film lover, for having at least one person in mainstream cinema who does exactly whatever he feels like. A very long drama about the creator of the atomic bomb? Of course. A science-fiction film that…