IN APRIL 1972, while sitting in a traffic jam, a young Japanese man named Goh Nagai came up with an idea that would make him famous -and very rich. He thought: 'If a car had arms and legs, then there ...

That was the question posed to Mazinger Z protagonist Koji Kabuto about what he could potentially become should he harness the power of the iconic robot. Many decades after the original manga and ...

There are so many anime series in the U.S. that it’s sometimes easy to forget that these Japanese imports weren’t always ubiquitous. Some classic titles like Astro Boy, Speed Racer, Robotech, Mazinger ...