Looking forward, 2026’s anime roster is already stacked. A slew of exciting announcements at Shueisha’s Jump Festa heightened anticipation, but there’s so much more. Here are 20 titles worth looking ...

2025 has been one of the strongest years for anime in ages, building on what is clearly a new Golden Age in the Japanese animation industry. With widening viewership, more access to anime on streaming ...

In many ways, 2025 was a banner year for anime: There were box-office smashes, such as Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle grossing close to $800 million worldwide, alongside a less quantifiable shift in ...

It's almost the end of the year, which means it's time to look back and share our highlights, and is there a better way than by revisiting the best anime of 2025? For lovers of the medium, we don't ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

Unlike many streaming services, one of the perks of Crunchyroll, the popular anime service, was that it offered a free ad-based tier. While it changed throughout the years, as the platform started ...

Somehow we've reached the end of 2024, and what a year it's been! For fans of anime it's been an eclectic and vibrant 12 months with an array of brilliant debuts and highly-anticipated returns. Once ...

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The record annual results for Japan's booming anime industry were achieved even before the recent historic success of 'Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle.' By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau Chief The report ...

Now, the last bastion of the old-school way of producing anime has embraced the inevitable progress. Starting in 2026, after a three-month break, Toei Animation will only produce 26 One Piece anime ...