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 ...

In 2024, it felt like the passion and hunger for anime was at its apex. But as we've seen this year, that growth shows no sign of stopping. In fact, in 2025 anime is being watched by more people now ...

It's almost the end of the year, which means it's time to look back and share our highlights, and is there a better way than by revisiting the best anime of 2025? For lovers of the medium, we don't ...

Although anime began gaining popularity in the West during the 1990s, the past decade has seen an unprecedented rise in the medium’s success. Thanks to the streaming services and better quality ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Fall 2025 season is here, and the new lineup is greater than ever with the return of some of ...

Now, the last bastion of the old-school way of producing anime has embraced the inevitable progress. Starting in 2026, after a three-month break, Toei Animation will only produce 26 One Piece anime ...

Language-learning app Duolingo has cast Duo — its adorable and plucky owl mascot — as the star of the company’s first-ever anime series, “最後の決戦 (The Final Test).” The company produced the five-episode ...

“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle,” the fourth film in a Japanese epic about a boy avenging his family, is poised to break box-office records when it’s released this month. That should ...

The autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) could help you access an altered sense of consciousness, research suggests. Oxytocin, colloquially known as the love hormone, is largely responsible for ...

Solo Leveling was named Anime of the Year and Attack on Titan received the Inaugural Global Impact Award at the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards. The 9th annual Anime Awards was hosted by Sally Amaki and ...