One Piece's anime remake gets its first trailer

The Straw Hat Pirates’ blitz continues. On Wednesday, Netflix finally released the first teaser for WIT Studio’s upcoming ...

Japan’s Toei Animation Impresses at Annecy With ‘Monkey Quest,’ a Japan-U.S. Animation Blender

Made by production teams from the U.S and Japan and beyond, Toei’s “Monkey Quest” shows the U.S. and Japan move closer ...
AOL

Growing backlash in Japan over Trump's use of anime characters

Trump most recently posted a video in which he depicts himself as Naruto A backlash is growing in Japan over US President Donald Trump's use of popular anime and manga characters in his posts on ...
scmp.com

Japanese fans draw the line at Trump using manga, anime to boost image

Almost 20,000 people have signed an online petition in Japan to protest against US President Donald Trump and the White House using manga and anime characters in posts on social media. In the latest ...
The Guardian

Japanese manga fans urge Trump to stop using characters in his online posts

Renewed outrage at White House’s use manga and anime imagery after US president is depicted as ninja Naruto Japanese anime and manga fans are urging Donald Trump to stop using their favourite ...
BBC

Growing backlash in Japan over Trump's use of anime characters

A backlash is growing in Japan over US President Donald Trump's use of popular anime and manga characters in his posts on social media. Upset has been brewing since March, when fans started noticing ...
GitHub

SCAIL-2: Unifying Controlled Character Animation with End-to-end In-Context Conditioning

SCAIL-1 identifies the key bottlenecks that hinder character animation towards production level: how to represent the pose and how to inject the pose. However, the reliance on intermediate pose ...
Cartoon Brew

Must Anime Still Be Made In Japan? Toei GM Asama Yosuke Doesn’t Think So

For most of its history, to be classified as anime, a work had to be made in Japan. The term didn’t describe a specific genre or a general aesthetic, but rather the national industry with its own ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Tubi Nabs ‘Scooby-Doo’ Anime Series From Warner Bros. Animation

The show will follow Scooby and Shaggy to Japan, where they encounter mythical monsters. By Rick Porter Television Business Editor The next animated iteration of Scooby-Doo will take the crime-solving ...
Variety

‘Monkey Quest’ and a New Anime Frontier: How Toei Animation Is Rewriting Its Global Playbook

The studio established a Global Strategy and Content Creation department last year, a formal expression of a direction it had been moving toward for some time. “The era when anime was something made ...
The Verge

Netflix is building an AI animation studio

The newly formed unit is staffing up to produce ‘feature-quality content’ with generative AI. The newly formed unit is staffing up to produce ‘feature-quality content’ with generative AI. is a tech ...