The medium has been bigger than niche for a long time. That became apparent to everyone in 2025. By Maya Phillips Lately I’ve been remembering a time when certain kinds of animated entertainment were ...

2025 has been one of the strongest years for anime in ages, building on what is clearly a new Golden Age in the Japanese animation industry. With widening viewership, more access to anime on streaming ...

We’re wrapping up the year by naming some of the best of the best anime to come out this year. Japanese animation has quickly become the genre to prioritize for studios and streamers, with American ...

For an industry marred by brutally long waits between new seasons and animator crunch, shifting from a TV production cycle to movies could help alleviate some of those issues, while also elevating ...

Spy x Family made its debut in 2022, and the anime has become instantly recognizable thanks to iconic figures like Anya Forger and Bond. The series leans more into comedy and slice-of-life narratives ...

In many ways, 2025 was a banner year for anime: There were box-office smashes, such as Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle grossing close to $800 million worldwide, alongside a less quantifiable shift in ...

Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in a scene from Star Wars: A New Hope. (Disney Plus) Those mid-'90s edits included early CGI effects that ...

More Star Wars: The Vintage Collection figures are on the way, as Hasbro is reissuing some popular sets. One of which is the Jabba the Hutt Set that brings the notorious crime lord's palace from ...

The Star Wars: The Vintage Collection Jabba's Court Denizens was an obscure 4-Pack that brought some of the iconic background characters from Jabba the Hutt's palace to life. Hasbro has been bringing ...

Stranger Things is finally gearing up for its swan song, with season 5 rolling out in two parts: one arriving this Thanksgiving week, the other on New Year’s Day. It’s wild to think how far the series ...

A new international poster for The Mandalorian and Grogu has been released, giving us another look at Din Djarin and "Baby Yoda" ahead of their big-screen debut next year. In addition to focusing on ...