If your love of anime extends to creating it, Christopher Hart’s introductory guide to designing characters will prove a highly useful resource. This well-reviewed book offers advice on drawing ...

Drawing cartoon characters is a fun way to express creativity. Artists of all skill levels can enjoy coming up with unique ...

Shinkai Makoto’s hit movie Kimi no na wa (Your Name) is breaking box office records and making headlines across Japan and around the world. We talked to the anime director about how he feels ...

Your Name is actually directed by Makoto Shinkai, who has done several other critically acclaimed anime films, including 5 Centimeters per Second, Children Who Chase Lost Voices, and The Garden of ...

If you are not familiar with Your Name, then you should know the anime feature is the highest-grossing film of 2016 in Japan. The film raked in more than $170 million at the box office since it ...

Rey and Kylo shippers have used Your Name to draw parallels between the characters since the anime film hit theaters—their speculation fueled by directors J.J. Abrams and Rian Johnson—and it ...

Review: ‘Your Name’ is an anime ‘Freaky Friday’ with a twist By G. Allen Johnson , San Francisco Chronicle April 6, 2017 Some days, Mitsuha is just not herself in “Your Name.” ...

Japanese anime ‘Your Name’ goes in delightful directions By G. Allen Johnson , Staff Writer Updated April 6, 2017 2:05 p.m. A scene from the animated file entitled 'Your Name".

Makoto Shinkai on His Anime Hit ‘Your Name,’ Being Called the “New Hayao Miyazaki” (Q&A) His latest film has topped the Japanese box office since its release at the end of August and ...

What starts out as a "Freaky Friday"-type body exchange becomes a rumination on time travel, cataclysmic fate, rural-urban dynamics and, of course, a love story in novelist-turned-anime director ...