Audiences crave familiarity, but constant reliance on recycled ideas turns creativity into assembly-line entertainment.

In any entertainment medium, there will be commonly shared traits such as genre, plot progression, character type, and setting. When these traits are repeated within a community to the point of ...

Shonen anime was barely a blip on the radar in the 1990s, but the 2020s tell a different story. The extraordinary successes of recent shows like Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer proved the global ...