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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Now, the popular anime robot Gundam is set to tower over the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo. Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. announced on June 26 that it will display a life-size model of Gundam at its ...

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.

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, ...