I have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime , exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, ...

Japanese anime director Mamoru Hosoda's latest film ... Hosoda still prefers drawing by hand. At Hosoda's studio, traditional anime techniques live on. Solomon feels this old-fashioned approach ...

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Despite the growing global popularity of Japanese media, there hasn’t been a state-led system to archive art and ephemera created during the production of anime and manga—until now—leaving ...

Folks across social media are using ChatGPT’s latest model, GPT-4o, to transform ordinary photos into dreamy, Studio Ghibli-inspired anime illustrations. OpenAI’s newly expanded image generation ...