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The streaming service of Abema will start releasing the works of Katsuhiro Otomo on a weekly basis beginning on May 3rd, with Akira starting things off to be followed by Steam Boy, Short Piece ...
Akira director Katsuhiro Otomo will direct a new anime series that will be a continuation of the steampunk cult classic that made his name.. Otomo, who also created the original Akira manga ...
Sunrise Inc. announced the project during a panel at the Los Angeles Anime Expo and, in addition to the new Akira animated series adaptation, a new film and an Otomo anthology were announced.
Lots of "Akira" news coming out of the Anime Expo in Los Angeles. Katsuhiro Otomo, who directed the 1988 film "Akira" and created the original manga that inspired it, announced he will also direct ...
2018 might have been a year that lasted forever, but a new age is here at last. It took some time, but 2019 has reared its head… and anime lovers are eyeing Akira real hard in light of the new year.
Akira has gone down as one of the most beloved anime films of all time, but surprisingly, unlike many successful films from that era, it has a shaky history of being adapted to a tie-in video game.
Remember Akira on the first Game Boy? Of course, you don’t. The game version of the epic anime never came out. It was developed for a while, though. Players were to alternate between Kaneda and ...
Akira opens with a terrific, very “Game Boy” cinematic, showing a massive explosion in “Neo-Tokyo” before jumping forward to the near-future of 2019 and protagonist Kaneda. This then leads ...
My earliest memory of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime classic, came at 15, when, returning home from a night out, a friend told me with intoxicated enthusiasm that we should put on “the ...