Anime stories are often set in schools, elementary for children viewers, high schools for teens.
Anime does have typical character design characteristics – large eyes, hair that clumps into thick points, smooth angles.
The debate over whether anime is or may be a harmful influence on children is a massive topic.
Sometimes the end of a good anime series can be rough. It can't be the end. No Way!
As today’s fans grow older, they may expect anime to grow with them, leading to an increased development of 'serious' series.
In Asian culture, there seems to be a significance for the number 108. Several anime and manga usually consider this number. For example, Mokona-Modoki mentioning that he has 108 special techniques in Tsubasa Chronicle; Karin having to perform 108 good deeds to get out of transforming into a giant pig...
Japanese characters including Binchoutan, Habanero-tan and the OS-tans are mascot characters, roughly similar to Sanrio’s Hello Kitty. More technically, they...
Osamu Tezuka is considered the godfather of Japanese manga and anime. His output spanned forty years, 700 titles, and iconic...
The Japanese culture has a particular fascination with genetics, heredity, lineage, and blood type because of traditional values. The Japanese fascination with blood type is a modern equivalent to Western astrology. According to Japanese superstition, blood type reveals and influences personality in the same way that astrology suggests that the...
The industry started gaining a mass audience with the debut of a weekly TV series created by manga genius Osamu...