Anime and Manga News

The branding hits as soon as you leave Hong Kong International airport and spot two huge billboards heralding the Asian debut of the world's most prominent art fair, Art Basel.

An anime fan models as an animated science fiction character at the 16th annual Animazement convention in Raleigh, NC on May 24, 2013.

Wakfu is an MMORPG. It takes place in its own particular fantasy universe and is the sequel to the MMORPG Dofus .

Sword Art Online to Air on Toonami Starting in August of America announced at its panel at Anime Boston on Friday that the Sword Art Online television anime series will air on Adult Swim's Toonami block starting this August.

While the earliest known Japanese animation dates to 1917, and many original Japanese animations were produced in the ensuing decades, the characteristic anime style developed in the 1960s - notably with the work of Osamu Tezuka - and became known outside Japan in the 1980s.

In Japan, taxis are typically black. Sometimes, they're white or even yellow, but generally, people think of them as being dark-colored and dull looking.

How many of you out there were exposed to the Transformers for the first time in your life through Michael Bay's effort on the silver screen? Well, if you so happen to fall under that particular category, might I encourage you to check out the entire back history and story of the Transformers over the years so that you would not end up thinking ... (more)

The artwork that greets visitors to "Hand Held: Gerhard Pulverer's Japanese Illustrated Books" is neither a book nor from Pulverer's collection.

The official Twitter account for Studio Ghibli's international branch posted a second official movie poster for director Hayao Miyazaki's upcoming The Wind Rises film.

This year's Anime Boston is being celebrated Friday, May 24 - Sunday, May 26 at the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Hotel in Boston, MA.

The LACOSTE L!VE x Osamu Tezuka Capsule Collection shines a light on the renowned Japanese manga mogul.

"Zero Yen" architect, Kyohei Sakaguchi, will host a workshop for attendees of his documentary, HOW TO BUILD A MOBILE HOUSE.

A Kyoto museum serves up a collection of the Japanese stylised cartoons, some of which date back more than 100 years As the van comes to a halt outside the Kyoto International Manga Museum, I find myself checking that my hair is tidily tied back and my clothes are not too rumpled.

Need a break from the Fringe Festival this weekend? The Florida Anime Experience invades I-Drive's International Palms Resort May 24-26 with guest of honor Maile Flanagan.

When Japanese animation icon Hayao Miyazaki moved in next door to My Neighbor Totoro , it was almost a disaster.

This March, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda took a week off due to a "sudden illness". Today, it was announced that Oda has been admitted to the hospital.

Episodes of the new anime series K will debut on the same day in Japan and the US.

Here's another round of picks from the staff at the Ferndale Public Library . "The unintentional theme here is that everything is overall pretty depressing ," Circulation Specialist Kerrie Patterson says.

La MaMa, in association with Crossing Jamaica Avenue, presents the New York Premiere of the acclaimed Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!, featuring original music and a concept by Fred Ho, co-written by Fred Ho and Ruth Margraff, directed by Sonoko Kawahara, with martial arts choreography by Emmanuel Brown and Japanese sword fighting ... (more)

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month-a celebration of Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States.