David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. This work from 1979 about a kindly inventor who lives in the woods certainly looks ...

And what is V-Day? It's not V-E Day, Victory in Europe Day. It's not V-J Day, Victory in Japan Day, that was a long time ago. It's Valentine's Day. It's all about love. One of the problems with love ...

TOKYO — Japan has created an unusual government post to promote animation and named a perfect figure Wednesday to the position: a popular cartoon robot cat named Doraemon. Foreign Minister Masahiko ...

Dragon Ball Z is one of the most famous Japanese anime shows on Earth. But when it came to Zambia, fans got a subversive surprise. The action show is all about “powering up” into fighters’ final forms ...

Malaysia-based Lil Critter Workshop has sold its slapstick non-dialogue show Buck and Buddy to WarnerMedia’s Cartoon Network in Japan. Buck and Buddy follows two mischief-making insects who must learn ...

TOKYO – Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the raspy voice of Doraemon, the beloved cartoon robotic cat from the future, has died. She was 90. Oyama, who voiced Doraemon for more than a quarter century, died ...

A Japanese man is campaigning to legalise marriage between humans and cartoon characters. Taichi Takashita, whose online petition has accumulated over 1,000 signatures, confessed that he feels more ...

TOKYO — World sales of Japanese toons fell 6% to $2.2 billion in 2007 compared to 2006, according to figures from the Assn. of Japanese Animations. It’s the first drop since the AJA began conducting ...

A lost 1928 Walt Disney cartoon featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the character that would lead to the creation of Mickey Mouse, has been found in Japan. By Gavin J Blair A lost 1928 Walt Disney ...

FILE - Doraemon, one of the most popular animation characters in Japan, participates in a kick-off ceremony of the Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo when Tokyo is bidding against Istanbul ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the ...