14 results for "Tokyo"
Hayao Miyazaki has retired three times and returned each time with a new film. The studio he built with Isao Takahata is the only animation studio in the world whose name alone is sufficient to guarantee an audience.
20 days ago
Comiket began in 1975 with 700 attendees and 32 creator groups. Today it draws over 700,000 visitors twice a year. Its story is one of fan creativity, legal grey zones, and the careers it has launched.
29 days ago
Rumiko Takahashi has been publishing manga since 1978 and has sold over 200 million copies of her work. Her career is one of the most durable creative achievements in the history of the medium.
17 days ago
CLAMP began as a doujinshi circle of 11 women making fan comics in the 1980s. Today, as a collective of four, they have sold over 100 million manga volumes across genres from children's fantasy to apocalyptic horror.
13 days ago
Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 adaptation of his own manga was produced at a scale and technical ambition that had no precedent in animation anywhere in the world. Its impact on Western film and culture is still being counted.
about 1 month ago
Makoto Shinkai made his first short film alone in his apartment in 2000. Sixteen years later, Your Name earned $380 million worldwide and briefly surpassed Spirited Away as Japan's highest-grossing film. Here's how he got there.
14 days ago
From Oishinbo to Shokugeki no Soma, Japan has produced a genre of manga devoted entirely to food — its preparation, its history, its cultural significance, and the drama of competitive cooking. Here's why the genre exists and what makes it work.
4 days ago
Serial Experiments Lain aired in 1998, when most of its viewers had never used the internet. It depicted a world where the boundary between online and offline identity had dissolved entirely. Twenty-five years later, it reads as documentary.
about 2 months ago
The anime opening sequence — typically 90 seconds of music and animation preceding each episode — has developed into a distinct artistic form with its own conventions, masterworks, and devoted critical community.
about 1 month ago
Satoshi Kon made four feature films and one television series before dying of pancreatic cancer at 46. Each work examined the boundary between reality and imagination with a sophistication that no other anime filmmaker has matched.
3 months ago
Ai Yazawa's Nana was one of the best-selling manga in Japan when it went on hiatus in 2009 due to Yazawa's serious illness. She has never returned. The story remains unfinished. The wait is now one of manga's most heartbreaking ongoing situations.
3 months ago
In 1983, the word "otaku" was a polite second-person pronoun used ironically among anime fans. By 1989, it had become a term of social stigma. By 2010, it was a badge of pride worn by millions worldwide. Here's how that transformation happened.
2 months ago
Shinichiro Watanabe's 1998 masterpiece was cancelled mid-production by its TV broadcaster for being too adult, rescued by satellite television, and has since become the series most often cited as proof that anime can be as good as anything.
2 months ago
Anime tourism — traveling to real-world locations depicted in anime — is a significant and growing segment of Japanese tourism. Here's why fans make the journeys, what they find when they get there, and how the industry has responded.
2 months ago