Yet the powerlessness of cute characters can also, paradoxically, be powerful: Most onlookers can't help but cheer for a furry, yellow cartoon animal fleeing from riot police. A cute character can ...

Never mind that Studio Ghibli director and founder Hayao Miyazaki famously denounced AI-generated art as “ an insult to life itself .” Both the Pikachu protester and the viral Studio Ghibli-esque ...

As a pet parent to three cats and two dogs, I sometimes forget that, while I'm moving about my life, theirs revolves around me. It's both heartwarming and breaking once I realize one of them has been ...