(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...

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“If I do have a dessert, I eat it with dinner or soon after, so it doesn’t spike my blood sugar levels as much compared to eating it alone later in the night.” What you drink is just as important as ...

The Spring 2025 anime season is upon us, and Crunchyroll has announced their first additions to the anime line up for the coming months. With the end of the Winter 2025 anime schedule now ...

Anime fandom in Arizona is at an all-time high. For proof, look no further than the sheer number of conventions and fandom events that have spawned since the pandemic (spoiler: it’s a lot.) ...

Webtoons have been booming in popularity recently. Solo Leveling isn’t the first webtoon to find success with an anime adaptation, but it’s definitely one of the biggest and most successful one.

From the moment Astro Boy first aired on NBC in 1963, anime has been a part of American TV-watching habits, whether audiences knew they were watching anime, or thought it was just another cartoon.

Hulu has an excellent reputation for having an incredible collection of TV simulcasts, and impressively, this has extended to anime for several years. These, of course, come packaged with the ...

A standard drink is a measure of how much pure alcohol you are drinking. It varies based on the concentration of alcohol in a beverage. In Canada, a standard drink is 17.05 millilitres or 13.45 grams ...