Japanese police on Wednesday formally arrested a man on suspicion of an arson attack on an animation studio in Kyoto last year that killed 36 people, a police spokesman said. The horrifying attack on ...

A Japanese content trade group representing multiple animation studios are demanding Open AI stop using their media to train its video generation tools. In an open letter, the group claims that Open ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Japan’s animation industry recording its highest-ever market value — JPY3.8 trillion ($23.7 billion), according to the Assn.

You’d think the number of animators would grow accordingly, but it didn’t increase that much,” said Fukumiya Ayano, of Nippon ...

A man in Japan was convicted of murder after he was accused of charging into an anime studio in the city of Kyoto, setting fire to the building and killing 36 people. Over 30 other people were badly ...

Oscar-nominated Japanese anime director Isao Takahata, who co-founded the Studio Ghibli and was best known for his work “Grave of the Fireflies”, has died aged 82, the studio said on Friday. “(His ...

Iconic Japanese animation studio Gainax has officially shuttered after a hugely influential and often tumultuous 42-year run. According to a studio president and co-founder, Hideaki Anno, the company ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japanese Animation studios like Studio Ghibli and Studio Pierrot have given anime fans some of the best animation movies from ...

KYOTO, Japan -- A man screaming "You die!" burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire Thursday, killing 33 people in an attack that shocked the ...

The studio established a Global Strategy and Content Creation department last year, a formal expression of a direction it had been moving toward for some time. “The era when anime was something made ...