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'Gekimation': Japan takes a post-Ghibli leap into another dimension

Using thousands of lovingly crafted props and painstaking stop-motion, animator Ujicha is reviving the gekimation style with his grotesque, visceral films

Published: 18 Jan 2021

Kyoto Animation arson suspect charged with murder in Japan

Shinji Aoba was arrested after attack in July 2019 in which 36 people died

Published: 16 Dec 2020

Genshin Impact: the video game that's slowly taking over the world

It is a gorgeous, engaging, free-to-play, open-world role-playing game … but at what cost?

Published: 22 Oct 2020
4 out of 5 stars.

Akira review – apocalyptic anime's startling message of global annihilation
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 6 Oct 2020
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Black enough? Anime has a race problem, here's how black fans are fixing it – video

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Published: 1 Oct 2020

The good place Studio Ghibli and beyond: the best anime for coronavirus lockdown days

If you don’t yet know how great Japanese animation is, you just haven’t found the right show. Now’s your chance

Published: 17 Apr 2020

3 out of 5 stars.

One Piece: Stampede review – piratical manga mayhem
3 out of 5 stars.

This imaginative carnival of battling buccaneers makes Pirates of the Caribbean look like Swallows and Amazons

Published: 31 Jan 2020

Guardian Tokyo week The 'year of Akira': the film's vision of 2019, compared with today's Tokyo – in pictures

This is the year in which the 1988 science fiction film Akira set its animated dystopia – so how does reality shape up against Katsuhiro Otomo’s vision?

Published: 16 Jun 2019

Boys' love to Pokémon: British Museum to host major show on manga

Exhibition will be largest on the comic books and graphic novels ever held outside Japan

Published: 5 Dec 2018

Cowboy Bebop remake: please Netflix, keep the anime classic wild and raw

A live-action remake of the sci-fi series feels like a disaster waiting to happen unless the streaming service can harness the madness of the original bounty hunting epic

Published: 30 Nov 2018
4 out of 5 stars.

Mirai review – an anime fantasy that bottles the magic of childhood
4 out of 5 stars.

Mamoru Hosoda places himself among the best at his craft with a painterly tale of a boy dealing with a new sibling

Published: 2 Nov 2018

Ghost in the Shell's urban dreamscapes: behind the moody art of the anime classic

Art director Hiromasa Ogura looks back on the process of crafting the 1995 film that would fundamentally alter our visions of the future

Published: 2 Aug 2018

3 out of 5 stars.

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms review – heart-melting anime
3 out of 5 stars.

This female-centred story set among dragons and ancient clans is a sentimental tale of motherhood and ageing

Published: 26 Jun 2018
3 out of 5 stars.

Maquia review – impressive anime spectacle
3 out of 5 stars.

This high fantasy dragons’n’immortals tale is visually seductive, if somewhat sentimental

Published: 24 Jun 2018

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