Rei Penber is the Deputy Lead Editor for GameRant's Anime and Manga team, originally from Kashmir and currently based in Beirut. He brings seven years of professional experience as a writer and editor ...

Renan is the Movies & TV Lead Editor for GameRant. Ren graduated Cum Laude from Lesley University in 2017 and has been focusing exclusively on his journalistic endeavors ever since. When Ren isn't ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance it’s because you came across a confusing new term like Shonen or Isekai in an article about anime and then clicked on a link hoping to learn more.

2025 has been one of the strongest years for anime in ages, building on what is clearly a new Golden Age in the Japanese animation industry. With widening viewership, more access to anime on streaming ...

In 2024, it felt like the passion and hunger for anime was at its apex. But as we've seen this year, that growth shows no sign of stopping. In fact, in 2025 anime is being watched by more people now ...

It's almost the end of the year, which means it's time to look back and share our highlights, and is there a better way than by revisiting the best anime of 2025? For lovers of the medium, we don't ...

AI on the JVM accelerates: New frameworks like Embabel, Koog, Spring AI, and LangChain4j drive rapid adoption of AI-native and AI-assisted development in Java. Java 25 anchors a modern baseline: The ...

Lucas Kloberdanz-Dyck is a writer for Collider. He grew up creating lists, stories, and worlds, which led to his love of anime and video games. He attended Sheridan College where he earned an Honours ...

Japan’s anime industry reached an all-time high in 2024, climbing to JPY3.84 trillion ($25.25 billion) in total market value, according to data presented by the Association of Japanese Animations (AJA ...

The idea of an anime series being banned is something that tends to go over the heads of Western audiences, with the threshold for inappropriate media considered relatively low. The most controversial ...