Arthell Isom, CEO and art director of D’Art Shtajio, Japan’s first black-owned anime studio, is one of those people. To saving money, starting over, or learning something new, ...

In this segment from June 2018, we discuss Black representations in Japanese manga and anime with William Bridges IV. He is assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester.

I t was around 13 years ago when LeSean Thomas first learned of Yasuke. At that time, Thomas came across the 1968 Japanese children’s book Kuro-suke by Kurusu Yoshio and saw illustrations of the ...

Newsweek recently sat down with Zeno Robinson, Anairis Quiñones and Lee George to discuss the highs and lows of working in the anime industry as actors of color.