Based in Scotland, Finn has been writing about Japanese pop culture for nine years now. He is also a gamer, hiker, and proud vegan. His passion is bringing news straight from Japan to you, in English, ...

South Koreans have recently been in a frenzy over characters created by two rival mobile messenger apps -- whether it is Line’s blank-faced bear named Brown or Kakao’s Muzi, who looks like a rabbit ...

We now know who many of the main characters in the new TooKyo Games title The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy are. A new trailer went over main character Takumi Sumino and his allies Darumi Amemiya ...

Line—the messaging app that is dominant in its home market of Japan and also a hit in Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand—is making a home for itself in New York. It launched a Times Square flagship store ...

Netflix will turn a cast of characters made popular by Japanese messaging app into an original animated series. The streamer is working with Line Friends, the character brand that started as Brown & ...