Samurai may have mostly faded from Japan at the turn of the 20th century, but the mark they left on Japanese society is ...

Shinichiro Watanabe, the director of Samurai Champloo, slams AI as a “heartless monster” in anime, praising human emotion’s ...

The Detective Conan counterparts to characters in Spring 2025's Yaiba feature in Movie 27: The Million-dollar Pentagram.

The Elusive Samurai, the hit Shonen Jump manga that spawned one of last year’s best and most beautiful anime, has just hit a major milestone, showing just how far the series has come.

The way the story plays on the clash of old-fashioned samurai adventures and modern Japanese culture is very appropriate, too, given how much this anime feels like a synthesis of classic '90s ...