David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. This work from 1979 about a kindly inventor who lives in the woods certainly looks ...

TOKYO — Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation and named a perfect figure Wednesday to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon. Foreign Minister Masahiko ...

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 ...

A campaign has been launched in Japan ... of the cartoon-human unions was instantly apparent this week as more than 1,000 were enlisted to the campaign. Among them, one supporter wrote: "For a long ...

TOKYO, Japan Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed the cat an "anime ambassador," handing a human-sized Doraemon doll an official certificate at an inauguration ceremony, along with dozens of ...

* Interactive graphic tracking global spread of coronavirus: open https://tmsnrt.rs/3aIRuz7 in an external browser. TOKYO, May 10 (Reuters) - Millions of Japanese viewers of the world's ...

FILE - Doraemon, one of the most popular animation characters in Japan, participates in a kick-off ceremony of the Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo when Tokyo is bidding against Istanbul ...

A Japanese man is campaigning to legalise marriage between humans and cartoon characters. Taichi Takashita, whose online petition has accumulated over 1,000 signatures, confessed that he feels more ...

HONG KONG – Walt Disney is to begin broadcasting Japanese cartoon “Doraemon,” the first time in the iconic series’ history that it will play in English in the U.S. Some 26 English-dubbed episodes will ...

A lost 1928 Walt Disney cartoon featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the character that would lead to the creation of Mickey Mouse, has been found in Japan. By Gavin J Blair A lost 1928 Walt Disney ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the business of fandom. Sayonara to the stereotype of the unsociable male anime nerd. According to data from six of ...