Japan’s animation industry grew by 14.8% to hit record revenues of $25BN (JPY3.8TR) in 2024, with much of the increase coming from overseas markets, according to a report presented by the Association ...

Kyoto Animation, the Japanese anime studio hit by a devastating arson attack Thursday morning — Japan's worst mass murder in the post-war era — had built its reputation on beautifully crafted ...

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A Japanese court on Thursday sentenced a man to death after finding him guilty of setting an animation studio on fire, killing 36 people and injuring dozens of others. The Kyoto District Court found ...

Fellow animators and others in the Japanese entertainment industry have expressed their sorrow and solidarity with Kyoto Animation, the well-respected anime studio that suffered a horrific arson ...

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it’s ever ...

TOKYO – Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage visitors to seek out the train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places ...

Kanishma Ray is a writer at GameRant, who's known to play a mean violin (decently, that is). She's a Computer Science student by day and a wordsmith by night, with a knack for crafting engaging and ...

When it comes to animation, China wants to be the next Japan. Long envious of its Asian neighbor’s success with anime, China is nurturing homegrown cartoonists and animators and encouraging them to ...

TOKYO – Eighty-eight places in Japan are going to be designated “animation spots” to encourage tourism – using train stations, school campuses, rural shrines and other fairly everyday places where ...