You’d think the number of animators would grow accordingly, but it didn’t increase that much,” said Fukumiya Ayano, of Nippon Anime and Film Culture Association (NAFCA), an advocacy group. In 2010 it ...

In late August, six trainees were drawing anime characters under the guidance of an instructor at a room in a major anime production company in Tokyo’s Nakano Ward. TMS Entertainment Co. recruits ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Don Hahn remembers the night he lost the Oscar for Best Picture. The Beauty ...

This year marks the 76th anniversary of the Warner Bros.’ The Dover Boys at Pimento University, an experimental theatrical short directed by Chuck Jones that pushed stylized animation in new ...

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. For three years, Maddi Winter had been searching for a hit. She’d been posting videos to TikTok and ...