Dreamworks Animation’s latest animated feature, The Wild Robot, isn’t just a financial success, scoring number one at the box office for its opening weekend, but is a critical success as well. The ...

Yoshiyuki Tomino’s creation laid the groundwork for decades of mecha anime, spawning an entire franchise that remains influential today. The Gundam series became a cultural phenomenon in Japan, with ...

MOST ATHLETES raise their fists in triumph after a win. When Noah Lyles, an American sprinter, won gold in the Olympics 100-metre race in August, he held his hands out in front of him, wrists together ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

Given how popular it's become around the world in the past few decades, it's no surprise anime is incredibly influential on global animation. There are several Western animated series that feel more ...

The mecha anime genre's stories of bombastic battles with giant robots are best told in these series, including Gundam and ...

A Japanese actor who was the voice of "Doraemon", a cartoon cat robot beloved by children in Japan and other countries has died, her agency said Friday. Nobuyo Oyama was 90. For a quarter of a century ...