Discover the meaning behind the viral “Ruby-chan” trend from the Japanese idol group AiScReam and how it took over TikTok and Instagram.

FRUITS ZIPPER’s “Kawaiitte Magic” blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, on the chart released May 21.

Once a niche character from China-based toy brand Pop Mart, Labubu is now a social media darling, a $27.99 keychain clipped ...

Over the past few years, interest in anime has grown exponentially, especially outside of Japan, which means streaming anime ...

Architect Toshiko Mori once said that Tokyo “demonstrates that ‘city’ is a verb and not a noun.” Indeed, the Japanese capital ...

Anime thrives on that which is familiar. Shounen story beats are often the same; even character designs sometimes evoke each ...

McDonald's spotlights Chiikawa with an adorable collection of new Happy Meal toys that would give Sanrio's Hello Kitty a run for her money.

In Japan, the term “anime” signifies – generally – all forms of animated works, both Japanese (although these are sometimes called manga, like the comics they are based on) and foreign. In the West, ...

The Xbox Series X is now $100 more expensive than it was a month ago. And now even anime is threatened by the administration’s ongoing trade war. Trump recently threatened 100 percent tariffs on ...

Crunchyroll has always offered a free subscription tier with a decent library of anime. Still, some of the most popular and simulcast series get locked behind the service’s Premium membership.

Based on the already-popular game series, the Pokémon anime became a cultural phenomenon almost immediately after it was first released in the '90s. A quarter-century later, the franchise is ...

All the power to you if you like anime. But if you wrap your entire car in Kawaii anime girls in outfits so skimpy that it needs a crew of FCC employees to censor it as you drive, it's probably ...