Four Japanese anime films are in the running for a nomination in the Oscars’ animation category, including Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You. The market for Japanese animation has nearly doubled in ...

The Japanese animation industry generated $25.3bn (¥3.84tn) in 2024, marking a 14.8% rise year-on-year and setting a new record, according to a report by the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA).

Simply sign up to the Media myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For a few days in March, anime and manga broke the internet. Wide-eyed, cute-looking characters spread like wildfire across ...

If you mentioned “anime” to a bunch of British people you used to get a lot of this: "Huh? / Isn’t it all hentai porn and perverted stuff? / Isn't that for kids? / Doesn't sound like my sort of thing.