Nature-Inspired Anime Art Combine the beauty of nature with anime aesthetics for a harmonious tattoo design. These tattoos ...

In her new book, Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, she considers how those feelings help us form judgments about the aesthetic world, how we know to describe something as ...

Japanese kawaii culture also went global, with the spread of anime films and manga comic books. After the advent of mass production, cute trinkets and toys became widely available; Sanrio, which ...

Ghibli-style art is gaining widespread popularity as users transform their photos using Google Gemini's AI model. This trend, inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's distinctive animation, is easily ...

One Piece’s anime has been running for decades now, first premiering in Japan in 1999 and starting the adaptation that would follow Monkey D. Luffy assembling his crew of swashbucklers to aid ...

Alistair D. Swale's "Anime Aesthetics: Japanese Animation and the 'Post-Cinematic' Imagination" covers even more ambitious ground. It asks: how is anime "art"? Anime Aesthetics, by Alistair D. Swale ...

This spring and summer, Japan’s ancient aesthetic heritage meets the cutting edge of animation. On at the Tokyo National Museum from March 25 to August 3, ‘Imme ...