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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero review – eye-candy anime is gloriously mesmeric
The immensely popular franchise is back with a cast of brightly coloured characters in a world of bad guys wit…
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Japanese creator of hit manga series Yu-Gi-Oh! dies aged 60
Kazuki Takahashi found in snorkelling gear floating in the sea off coast of Okinawa, reports sayA Japanese art…
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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 review – sorcerer anime series gets a spectacular prequel
This masterful coming-of-age tale sees the process of coming to terms with past traumas through a horror-fanta…
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Japanese anime One Piece to air its 1,000th episode in 80 countries
Cartoon series, starring Monkey D Luffy, started life as a manga in 1997 and is a record seller as a comic boo…
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The Witches of the Orient review – very strange but true sports history
Julien Faraut’s documentary recounts how a Japanese women’s volleyball team recruited from factory workers bec…
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Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train review – an anime fever dream
Good, bad and powerful spells collide in this impressively animated romp that inspires touching reflections on…
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Kentaro Miura, creator of bestselling manga Berserk, dies aged 54
Thousands of fans gather in online games to hold memorials for the artist and writer, who had been working on …
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Ride or Die review – bloody revenge and blossoming love in shocking Japanese thriller
A young woman hits the road with the killer of her abusive husband in Ryūichi Hiroki’s adaptation of cult mang…
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Akira review – apocalyptic anime’s startling message of global annihilation
The landmark Japanese cyberpunk animation from 1988 re-emerges as a deeply strange nightmare about destruction…
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My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising review – workies save the world
Apprentice superheroes fight the forces of evil in an anime adventure overloaded with Japanese bizarro zealA s…
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One Piece: Stampede review – piratical manga mayhem
This imaginative carnival of battling buccaneers makes Pirates of the Caribbean look like Swallows and Amazons…