Your Favorite Anime Just Ended? A Beginner's Guide on How (and Where) to Start Reading Manga   You've finished the latest season of your favorite anime. The solution is simple: read the manga. The manga is the original source material for most anime, and in almost every case, the story is much further ahead than the animated adaptation. But this raises three key questions for a beginner:...

Loved 'Jujutsu Kaisen'? 5 Other Dark Supernatural Anime You Need to See Next   Jujutsu Kaisen has redefined modern action anime. Its popularity comes from a specific combination: a modern world threatened by supernatural horrors (Curses), a well-defined power system (Cursed Energy), and fluid, cinematic combat animation from studio MAPPA. If you finished the latest season and are looking...

It is a frequent question in the anime community: How many episodes does One Piece have? Is it the longest? The short answer is: No, One Piece is not the longest anime in history. Although the Luffy anime has surpassed 1100 episodes, the throne of the most extensive anime belongs to a category of short-format Japanese series with near-daily broadcasts that have been on the air continuously for...

Any anime fan knows the terms “Shonen” (for young boys) and “Shojo” (for young girls). Many are familiar with “Seinen” (for adult men). But there’s a fourth crucial pillar that, in the West, is often overlooked or misunderstood: “Josei.” Josei is the demographic aimed at adult women. It is not Shojo. It is the medium that produces some of...

How 'Sailor Moon' Created the Modern "Magical Girl" Template   The "Magical Girl" (Mahou Shoujo) genre is one of the oldest and most recognizable in anime. When most people think of it today, they imagine a group of teenage girls in colorful outfits, elaborate transformation sequences ("henshin"), and special attacks to defeat a monster. That image, however, was not always the standard....