Some of anime's darkest stories also feature serial killers who are so well-crafted that they can make viewers shiver with a single look.

Do you love watching anime series? Well, then this will shock you. A man convicted of murdering an 89-year-old in Auckland may have been acting out a scene from the Japanese anime TV series and ...

A New Zealand court has decided that a convicted killer can seek an appeal after new evidence showed that he may have been reenacting a scene from an anime. This is a representational image.