Discover the Japanese anime and manga that secretly inspired some of Hollywood's biggest movies, from The Lion King to The Matrix.

Adriano is GameRant’s Anime Features lead. He has been working on creating anime content for GameRant since November 2021. He enjoys a wide variety of anime, with Shinichiro Watanabe’s Cowboy Bebop ...

Scarlet, the 2025 Japanese animated fantasy film loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, is finally coming to U.S. movie theaters this weekend. First Hamnet, now this? Big moment for Hamlet! I think ...

Raw scans for One Piece Chapter 1173 are out, and with that, we finally have some answers to the questions that Eiichiro Oda had teased his readers with. The title of this installment is known as ...

Without fail, Valentine’s Day always sneaks up on me as a parent. It feels like the entirety of the fall and early winter includes weeks of preparation for the marathon of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and ...

Here's what The Hunting Party leading lady Melissa Roxburgh told us. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I'm pretty confident that ...

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Darren Aronofsky has released the trailer of his AI-driven Revolutionary War series, On This Day… 1776, but the reaction online has been largely critical. Produced ...

After what’s felt like years of handwringing over the perils of AI, internet brainrot, and the inherent exploitation of streaming, it’s nice to step into a world that finds the best in all of the ...

Parents need to know that Cosmic Princess Kaguya! is a Japanese anime retelling of a Japanese folk tale ("The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter"), reimagined in a modern setting. Combining genres of sci-fi, ...