Welcome back to MangoBot, a biweekly column about Asian futurism by TokyoMango blogger Lisa Katayama. My childhood hero was a purple-haired robot who ...

The Mouse House will air 26 episodes of “Doraemon,” a manga-turned-anime from Japan about a robot-like cat from the future, on its cable channel Disney XD this summer.

Mecha, the giant robots or machines controlled by people, have been a staple of popular Japanese entertainment for decades. Fans of Japanese manga, anime, and mecha-themed video games probably ...

Engineer always wanted to ride inside a giant robot, so he built his own! Masaaki Nagumo has always dreamed of riding inside of a giant robot, just like the characters in his favorite anime series ...

Pluto, the long-awaited anime adaptation of Naoki Urasawa’s 2003 manga based on Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, is finally here and it’s amazing.The eight-episode series is a fastidiously ...

Gatebox, priced at ¥321,840 (about $2,700 US), is squarely targeted at young lonely salarymen and all brands of anime-obsessed otaku—promising the experience of "living with your favorite ...

Manga masters Osamu Tezuka and Naoki Urasawa collide in Pluto, the “Watchmen” of Astro Boy. Netflix’s eight-hour anime adaptation will premiere this month.

Not all of the robots go about indemnifying their past mistakes in the same way. Some robots, ... Studio M2 gives Naoki Urasawa’s beloved manga the anime adaptation it deserves.

Anime and manga have been counted among Japan’s start pop culture exports for many years now. ... By the mid-1980s, a wide variety of Japanese anime—including robot sci-fi, fantasy, sports, ...