It can be difficult to recognize what is and isn't popular in other countries. A franchise, genre, or performer can look niche in the United States even as it becomes the most important thing in the ...

If ever you needed to know how influential Hideaki Anno is in Japan, look no further. The creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion and its many reboots has more recently ushered in a new, unprecedented ...

One of the more delightful things—aside from the movies themselves—to come out of Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno’s “Shin” tokusatsu movies is the Shin Japan Heroes project, a merch collab that mashes ...