India, Aug. 5 -- Anime, which mostly refers to Japanese animated content, has a wide following, and one of the largest happens to be in North America. Infillion estimates that around 52.8 million North American viewers watch anime on Crunchyroll. Hence, there's been quite a lot of chatter over speculations that the US might be banning anime.

However, what started this chatter? Are the fears founded? Here, we take a look into the possibility of US Congress banning anime.

The chatter online - both Reddit and X - seem to suggest that Congress might be planning to ban anime.

"Who's here after hearing that Congress is going to ban anime?," a person asked on Reddit. "They're what now??," one person exclaimed, while another wondered how it wo...