“Delicious in Dungeon” on Netflix combines the aesthetic pleasures of anime with the food-nerd pleasures of ... “Dungeon” (in Japanese, with subtitles or dubbed) follows a ragtag crew.

Anime like Naruto and Food Wars! Shokugeki no Sōma are getting foreign fans hungry to try all kinds of Japanese cuisine. The number of foreign visitors to Japan in 2024 surpassed prepandemic ...

But there is also an aesthetic connotation: anime is usually hand-drawn and two-dimensional, unlike the photorealistic 3D animation that has grown more common outside Japan. The characters often ...

In terms of combining Japanese aesthetics and Western storytelling, do you worry that you might lose some of what makes Japanese anime attractive? It’s a project that we have been working on for ...