The Sanrio designer behind My Melody and Kuromi reveals that the latter's iconic pink hood played a key role in her ranking ...

Most of Yamada’s work — including her latest, The Colors Within, currently in select U.S. theaters — is slice-of-life, a popular anime genre that focuses on the mundane. She has a deep interest in ...

Some see anime as being entrenched in fantasy and sci-fi, but the medium spans genres, even delivering brutal tearjerkers.