All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga. And all stand on equal ground with the likes of Shohei ...

Sally Amaki is a voice actress and idol professional entertainer in Japan. Kana Ichinose stars in the TV anime series “Mobile ...

Fans meet each other at comic stores, online and at anime conventions, where they can dress up as their favorite characters and bond over their love of Japanese pop culture. Young people flocked ...

Saudi Arabia under the leadership of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, a known lover of anime and video ...

and the venue was crowded with people dressed in costumes of various manga characters. Dimona Wa Mukenyi, 17, an employee of Tamashii Nations, a company that sells Japanese figurines, said that ...

A beloved Japanese anime series from the late 1980s is set ... It gained immense popularity thanks to its quirky characters, bizarre storylines, silly jokes and playful puns.

and characters' names were changed to Japanese names – which are choices incredibly similar to how American translations of anime used to be back in the 1990s.