Beyond Journey's End (Original Story: Kanehito Yamada / Art: Tsukasa Abe), currently serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday, has captured hearts with its unique fantasy world depicting the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Japanese ‘kawaii’ pop culture is exploding in Hawaii, with a new retailer bringing cute and viral merchandise from across Asia to stores in Oahu. Kawaii Kingdom owner ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. At the beginning of 2025, Hypergryph shared the first closed beta test for Arknights: Endfield, the free-to-play action-RPG spin-off from the ...

Ranking of Kings is an adorably animated series that combines royalty with one of the most poignant character-driven plots of the last decade. Released in 2021, the series has a total of 23 episodes ...

Purple-haired anime girls are rarely the center of attention. They tend to be more on the sidelines, leaving room for the main characters to shine, like Asuna from Sword Art Online, Mikasa from Attack ...

The "clean girl" aesthetic, long the defining look of social media's minimalists and wellness aspirants, is being eclipsed by a new wave of chaotic chic. The rise of the "messy cool girl" signals a ...

Setting aside whether Grok’s romantic companion, Ani, is creepy or just silly, she made me crave not just a human partner but also a better AI one. I’ve been writing about consumer technology and ...

In another, better world, we could've all been geeking about seeing Wu-Tang and Spice Girls headline their own cartoons. Reading time 2 minutes Now, here’s a sentence no one expected to read in the ...

I’m at a sold-out concert in Hollywood, and I’m the only one in the 1,200-plus-capacity venue who doesn’t know any of the songs. One of the acts has just finished, and everyone around me begins ...

Convenience stores, a very American concept for people on the go, were first introduced in Japan in the 1970s. Today, they’re an intrinsic part of life throughout the country – even more so than in ...