Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored. With Phil Mulloy’s films, it’s easy to see ...

Netflix has announced that an animated series of Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki’s best-selling manga “Pluto” is now in development. On Tuesday, Netflix shared a four-minute sneak peek at the ...

Netflix will release “PLUTO,” based on the manga comic book series by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, later this year, the streamer announced Tuesday. Created by Naoki Urasawa (“20th Century Boys, ...

Known worldwide as the godfather of both anime and manga, Osamu Tezuka’s cultural influence can never be over-stated. As pioneering as Walt Disney, and as prolific as Jack Kirby, his choices as a ...

News has broken that Eiichi Yamamoto, a pivotal player in anime history, passed away on September 7. His age has variously been given in the Japanese media as 80 and 88; going by what we know of his ...

There are few figures in anime and manga with the same weight behind them as Osamu Tezuka. Often called the father of those media, the accolade is actually apt in this case. So it is wonderful to ...

In the late 1960's, Osamu Tezuka — manga and anime visionary, as well as the creator of Astro Boy — helped create a 26 part serial for Japanese television called Vampire, in which a "vampire" (really ...

Cancel those Rosetta Stone orders, anime fans! Dororo… has subtitles at last on Amazon Prime! And yes, it's much better when you can understand what they're saying. The story takes place in the ...

As Mipcom’s 2016 country of honor, Japan has been selected for its “spirit of imagination.” And a big reason is the upcoming centennial of Japanese animation. The Japanimation industry has a long ...

Netflix has announced that an animated series based on the sci-fi mystery manga PLUTO by Naoki Urasawa will be available to view later this year, produced by GENCO and animated by M2STUDIO. A new ...