And what is V-Day? It's not V-E Day, Victory in Europe Day. It's not V-J Day, Victory in Japan Day, that was a long time ago. It's Valentine's Day. It's all about love. One of the problems with love ...

China increasingly adept at using social media, including those banned at home, to shape opinion, says analyst. Read more at ...

Dragon Ball Z is one of the most famous Japanese anime shows on Earth. But when it came to Zambia, fans got a subversive surprise. The action show is all about “powering up” into fighters’ final forms ...

Apart from Eeyore, Droopy, and maybe a couple of low-energy Smurfs, there aren’t too many sad, mopey characters in the pantheon of Western animation. Cartoon characters tend to be upbeat, confident, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business of fandom. However, in the hearts and minds of Chinese fans of Japanese anime, the Great Firewall of ...

For the first time ever, the Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon has been released in Japan! The debut comes thirty years after it originally aired in the United States. The Japanese version of the cartoon ...

Malaysia-based Lil Critter Workshop has sold its slapstick non-dialogue show Buck and Buddy to WarnerMedia’s Cartoon Network in Japan. Buck and Buddy follows two mischief-making insects who must learn ...

TOKYO — Takashi Yanase, creator of one of Japan's most beloved cartoon characters, Anpanman, has died of heart failure at age 94. Yanase died at a Tokyo hospital early Sunday, Yanase Studio said in a ...

TOKYO – Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the raspy voice of Doraemon, the beloved cartoon robotic cat from the future, has died. She was 90. Oyama, who voiced Doraemon for more than a quarter century, died ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the ...