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Kojima Productions has offered the first proper peek at the Death Stranding anime with a teaser trailer. The brief look at Death Stranding Isolations has a few motifs from the game, such as a courier with cargo strapped to their back. The bulk of the clip focuses on a girl who wakes up in a panic…

The director Miyazaki Hayao and other leading anime creators have a surprising number of connections to Nagano in central Japan. The prefecture’s Suwa region, steeped in prehistoric Jōmon culture, is home to one of Japan’s oldest Shintō shrines.

DC’s Absolute Universe has reinvented the wheel with its experimental take on the comics’ iconic superheroes like Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. The comics are filled with iconic imagery, but the artists have now paid the ultimate tribute to the popular anime movie, Akira. The latest cover for Absolute Wonder Woman pays homage to the…

Anime’s billion-dollar boom is exposing a growing divide between studios that can invest in their productions and those struggling to reward the people who make them. Fujitsu Ryota, programming advisor for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Animation section, says stronger compensation and the willingness to shoulder financial risks could determine which companies thrive.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 has brought the anime series to yet another conclusive end, and the showrunner behind it all opened up to ComicBook about the potential future of the franchise after that finale. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners made a lot of waves with fans when it first hit as it ended in a way that pretty much…

The Hirayasumi anime just dropped new footage that reveals exactly how the beloved manga will look in motion. The trailer also unveiled the principal voice cast and a key visual ahead of the series’ 2027 premiere.

For a decade Crunchyroll has defined itself as the place anime lives after it airs — a simulcast library, not a marquee. Its acquisition of ufotable’s Witch on the Holy Night for North American theaters signals a different ambition: treating the cinema window as anime’s prestige tier rather than an occasional stunt. Partnering with Sony…

When it comes to anime movies, many of the most legendary features were released decades ago, long before the current rise in popularity of the medium. Movies like Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Perfect Blue, and the many animated ventures from Studio Ghibli have helped elevate the anime world amongst the masses worldwide. Ten years…

Vampires have been done to death in anime, but few films still cast the long shadow of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Directed by genre legend Yoshiaki Kawajiri and animated at Madhouse, the 2000 dark fantasy anime film has spent over two decades as a cult favorite, mostly kept alive through import discs.

The removal of the anime Chainsmoker Cat (尼古喵喵) from streaming platforms due to complaints about tobacco product placement contravenes the principle of proportionality and stifles creative expression, an advocacy group said on Thursday, after the Health Promotion Administration launched an investigation that could result in platform operators facing fines of up to NT$1 million (US$31,399).