TOKYO (AP) — Takashi Yanase, creator of one of Japan's most beloved cartoon characters, Anpanman, has died of heart failure, his studio said Tuesday. He was 94. Yanase died at a Tokyo hospital early ...

In Japan, "anime," pronounced "ah-nee-meh," are cartoons that date back to the early 1900s. A related Japanese term is "manga," which refers to animated cartoons and comics in general, not necessarily ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix is ramping up its international original animation production with several new Japanese series. Last summer, Netflix ...

Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the raspy voice of Doraemon, the beloved cartoon robotic cat from the future, has died. She was ...

Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite comes with a generous amount of storage capable of holding more than enough reading material for the average user, unless that user happens to be a devout consumer of the ...

There’s an art to screaming well. It requires a lack of inhibition, a willingness to holler with a gaping maw and full-throated sincerity. Your audience will know if you don’t mean it. From inside a ...

Animoca Brands is announcing two mobile games based on Astro Boy, a famous anime and manga cartoon series from Japan. For Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands, a spin-off from mobile-game maker Animoca, ...

David Gerstein and Cole Johnson found this delightfully primitive 1934 Japanese cartoon about a war in 1936(?). Clearly inspired by Hollywood cartoons of the era, one can read plenty into the fact ...