In November 2021, a friend of 19-year-old Ano Sartania sent the teen a TikTok video of a girl with blue hair getting her eyebrow pierced. The video not only uncovered a decades-long family mystery, ...

While magical girl anime are sometimes defined by clichés, these shows stand out as proof the genre has more to offer.

The shortest month of the year saw the birth of several well-known anime characters, heroes and villains alike.