Anime
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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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‘Gekimation’: Japan takes a post-Ghibli leap into another dimension
Using thousands of lovingly crafted props and painstaking stop-motion, animator Ujicha is reviving the gekimat…
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Kyoto Animation arson suspect charged with murder in Japan
Shinji Aoba was arrested after attack in July 2019 in which 36 people diedJapanese prosecutors have charged a …
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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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One Piece: Stampede review – piratical manga mayhem
This imaginative carnival of battling buccaneers makes Pirates of the Caribbean look like Swallows and Amazons…
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Kyoto Animation suspect staked out anime locations before arson attack
As the death toll rises to 35, police say Shinji Aoba was caught on camera visiting sites in the city of UjiTh…
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Mourners pay tribute to victims of Kyoto Animation studio fire – video
Mourners gathered in Japan on Friday to lay flowers outside Kyoto Animation after an arson attack that killed …
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Kyoto Animation studio fire suspect named by police
Witnesses say Shinji Aoba claimed he started deadly blaze over plagiarisation disputeJapanese police have name…
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‘Too painful’: Kyoto anime fans join prime ministers in mourning fire victims
Sense of loss spreads beyond fans of the genre as Justin Trudeau and Tim Cook voice their shock“I have watched…
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Kyoto Animation studio fire: at least 25 dead after arson attack in Japan
Dozens more injured after ‘man threw liquid and set fire’ to building, police sayJapan has been plunged into a…