It’s why Grave of the Fireflies author Akiyuki Nosaka only agreed to let his short story be adapted into an anime film by Isao Takahata’s team at Studio Ghibli: The form could capture the emotions of ...

Abby Trott, A.J. Beckles, and Aleks Le are geeked up for the epic return of the breakout hit anime.

The Spring 2025 anime season is more than halfway through by this point, and it is mostly shaping up to be decent. As always, ...

These colorful anime present as one genre at the start, but at some point in their run, they switch genres into something ...

Distinctive for being arguably the anime that began the CGDCT trope, Azumanga Daioh follows a cast of cute high school girls getting into absurd high school mischief together. Azumanga Daioh can ...

Beyond the cute aesthetics and online trends lies a much ... before the rest of the world even noticed? How did a blend of anime, diplomacy, and culture become one of the world’s most powerful ...

Roommates! Grumpy and sunshine! — which already spells a fun time for anyone looking for a cute romantic comedy. But it’s the cartoonishly bonkers physical humor that makes it so memorable.

Petrana Radulovic is an entertainment reporter specializing in animation, fandom culture, theme parks, Disney, and young adult fantasy franchises. I was pretty sure I knew how Sakamoto Days would ...

She is a kind and funny woman who knows a lot more than it ... Hinata is normally a name associated with wholesome and cute anime characters who cannot hurt a fly. That changes when you are ...

defining the subgenre of cute-girls-doing-cute-things anime that grew during the 2000s. From the beginning, Yamada had Reiko Yoshida. The prolific screenwriter behind Studio Ghibli’s The Cat ...

While this does make the anime extremely funny, it’s also unbelievably frustrating ... While My Little Monster is a relatively cute, simple, slice-of-life shojo anime from the 2010s, the ...

Of all the tropes and genres to repeat themselves over the years in anime, perhaps none have garnered as controversial a reputation yet passionate a following as Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (CGDCT).