(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, ...

Osamu Tezuka's robotic boy wonder, Astro Boy, returns to the airwaves with a vibrant full-color restoration created using AI ...

AI risks taking Japanese anime artists' jobs but nothing can replicate Hayao Miyazaki, the creative lifeblood of the studio behind classics such as "Spirited Away", his son told AFP.