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 ...

This short art tutorial demonstrates how to draw the basic structure and proportions of an anime-style female face. It covers the initial head circle, facial guidelines, and how to shape a slimmer ...

Purple-haired anime girls are rarely the center of attention. They tend to be more on the sidelines, leaving room for the main characters to shine, like Asuna from Sword Art Online, Mikasa from Attack ...

And of course, if we could all change into a better version of ourselves or harness magical powers with a simple transformation, who wouldn’t want to be a magical girl? While the genre does have its ...

I’m at a sold-out concert in Hollywood, and I’m the only one in the 1,200-plus-capacity venue who doesn’t know any of the songs. One of the acts has just finished, and everyone around me begins ...

The free mobile and Steam game is blowing up, but to master it, you need the right strategy. Get ahead of the pack with these tricks. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and your go-to source ...

to assist in building out its expanding roster of AI companions, such as "anime girls" that will communicate with users on its Grok platform. The job listing, titled "Fullstack Engineer – Waifus," ...

Elon Musk’s hate speech-spewing AI chatbot Grok, which recently gave itself the nickname “MechaHitler,” didn’t exactly fit into the gender binary — but you have to admit that its edgelord persona had ...

Elon Musk has just unveiled “Companions,” a new feature for his AI chatbot, Grok, that allows users to interact with AI personas. These include Ani, a gothic anime girl who communicates with emojis, ...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has pivoted from antisemitism to anime girl waifus. Musk wrote in an X post on Monday that AI companions are now available in the Grok app for “Super Grok” subscribers who ...

Umamusume: Pretty Derby, the Japanese mobile game in which you raise anime horse-girls, has brought Japan’s most unsuccessful racehorse a second boom in popularity following its western launch on ...

The internet’s latest obsession: training and cheering on anthropomorphized anime horses as they race around a track. First released in 2021 as a mobile game for iOS and Android, Umamusume: Pretty ...