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 ...

Anime characters come with a variety of amazing and interesting names. Hinata is a name shared by many popular anime characters in the industry. There is no real reason why this name is so popular ...

Takopi's Original Sin lures viewers with a cute alien and a lonely girl, then delivers shocking emotional blows. The anime explores dark themes like bullying and suicide through the eyes of an ...

For more than a century, movies have been adapted from novels, plays, television shows and real-life historical events. The bite-sized animal-shaped cookies emblazoned with words such as “lion”, ...

Just a few days after release, Umamusume: Pretty Derby is going viral— inspiring livestreams, memes and TikTok edits—the bizarre anime girl racing game is proving immensely popular online. What Is ...

Microsoft announced that the Windows screenshot and screencast Snipping Tool utility is getting support for exporting animated GIF recordings. This new capability is rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders ...

Times are tough and the world can seem like a scary place. Whether it’s personal troubles, just trying to survive, or any number of struggles underneath the surface, whatever we’re going through, we, ...

The anime community thrives on pairing together their favorite characters, and there’s no better way to hype up fans than to give them “canon pairings.” These couples don’t always have to be endgame, ...

Oluwatokiloba, a freelance creative writer and editor living in Lagos, strikes a delicate balance between his academic studies at the University of Lagos and his love for writing. He is a voracious ...

Laura has been writing about anime for some time. Pokemon remains the top-grossing media franchise with estimated US$100 billion in sales revenue in 2021. The newly established Monpoke brand targets ...

Animated GIFs have become a staple of the internet. Invented in 1987, the looping, soundless video clips can be found everywhere online, from social media networks to messaging platforms. They're ...

It’s rare to see a movie and think, “I need every kid to see this.” That’s the case with Flow, which just screened at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. I don’t mean that as homework, the way that, at ...