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Manga creator Akira Toriyama, who passed away last month, will be remembered for his prolific outpouring of internationally beloved work, including the Dragon Ball franchise, Dr. Slump and Sand Land. But there’s also a unique thing he did shortly before he died that ties him …Read more »
The unexpected death of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama shook the anime and manga world and beyond. Now Toonami has declared it will honor Toriyama with a marathon of Dragon Ball Z Kai episodes this weekend. Toonami said on Facebook: As a tribute to anime …Read more »
Fans around the world are expressing sadness and shock at the unexpected passing of Dragon Ball Z creator Akira Toriyama. Toriyama was a major influence on manga, and some other big-name manga authors have taken to the internet to pay homage to him. One Piece …Read more »
Fans around the world were hit with shocking news tonight, as the official Dragon Ball social media accounts announced that creator and overall legendary manga author Akira Toriyama has passed away. Toriyama was 68 years old, and according to the announcement he passed due to …Read more »
If you’ve ever wanted to own your own motorcycle from Akira — a.k.a. the Kaneda Bike — now’s your chance. If you have the funds to buy it, anyway. There are some fan-built examples in the past, including one that cost more than $100,000. This …Read more »
Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki’s Conjecture is a manga based on a light novel series, both of which are being published by Yen Press. Naoya Fukamachi, a new college student, has a mysterious past, where something otherworldly seems to have happened at a Bon festival. He’s …Read more »
SAND LAND, the new anime film based on the Akira Toriyama film of the same name, is headed to theaters in Japan this Friday, August 18. Now ahead of that release comes a new music video that shows off the film and its theme song, …Read more »
Akira Toriyama’s 2000 manga SAND LAND is getting an anime movie adaptation coming out later this summer, and it was just revealed it’s also getting a video game. To be more specific, it will be an action role-playing game developed by ICLA. A trailer that’s …Read more »
Neo-Tokyo is about to EXPLODE… with Akira cels! If you’re in Tokyo in August, one event you can’t miss is the Akira Cel Exhibition, featuring actual cels from the 1988 classic directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. That exhibition, which ties in with the Otomo Complete Works …Read more »
Back in December we learned that Akira Toriyama’s SAND LAND manga would be getting a “screen adaptation,” and now we have a better idea of what’s in the works. An anime film is currently being produced at Sunrise, Kamikaze Douga and ANIMA, and it’s scheduled …Read more »
For years there have been ongoing and abortive attempts to make a Hollywood live-action Akira. Jordan Peele was one of the people approached to possibly direct it, and he recently talked about the theoretical movie again. For background, in 2017 Peele revealed he’d been approached …Read more »
Earlier this month we discovered that Bandai Namco was doing something with Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama’s SAND LAND manga, which was originally published in Weekly Shonen Jump between May and August of 2020. Since then we’ve learned the project is a “screen adaptation,” the …Read more »
Akira Toriyama is best known for his mega successful Dragon Ball franchise, but that’s not the only manga he’s worked on. He debuted with his first serialized manga in 1980 with Dr. Slump, which is also fairly well known. But it’s his short Sand Land …Read more »
Jan Rabson is a voice actor who had a number of roles in the world of anime over the years, including Tetsuo in the Streamline Pictures English dub of Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark anime film Akira. According to fellow VA Bob Bergen, Rabson recently passed away …Read more »
The Twitter account for OTOMO The Complete Works recently held a Q&A session with Katsuhiro Otomo—the creator of the groundbreaking Akira and more—in which a fan asked about the future of his manga work. Otomo had something interesting to say in response to the question, …Read more »
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