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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 »
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 »
Katsuhiro Otomo, he of Akira, Domu, Short Peace and many more legendary manga, hinted on X/Twitter yesterday that he may be at work on a new manga series. He (or his staff) tweeted a freshly illustrated picture of Kiyoko, the prescient Esper from Akira, saying, …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 »
Katsuhiro Otomo is famous for his work, especially Akira, and Kodansha is getting ready to release the manga Complete Works of Katsuhiro Otomo in Japan. They’re putting up some pretty serious advertising murals in crowded areas of Shinjuku and Shibuya, and Otomo himself had to …Read more »
Do you know what day it is? Neither do we. Between springing forward and… you know… other things… time seems kind of fluid right now. Kind of like it is in these time travel anime! (Yes, in a pinch, we can bring anything back to …Read more »
Not all that long ago, which anime got licensed was a matter of what would sell fastest. That generally meant shows with tie-in merchandise, or things that already proved popular. Cult classics were a bigger risk, and so rarely got picked up in any official …Read more »
Once again, the hi-res, Keanu-filled awesomeness that is Cyberpunk 2077 eludes us. We’ve been hyped about this game ever since we saw the announcement trailer, and the wait is killing us. But we can do it, right? Just another month… probably. In the meantime, we’re looking back …Read more »
Tetsuo!—Er, Tokyo! Tokyo Reborn, an upcoming NHK special about how Tokyo is changing in the lead-up to the 2020 Olympics, is getting some help from the creator of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo. The man behind that legendary manga and anime (set in the fictional Neo-Tokyo of …Read more »
Tokyo, meet Neo-Tokyo. In the latest of our social media clips, we take a trip to Shibuya, where in recent months, a mural celebrating the Katsuhiro Otomo classic Akira has appeared. The giant mural wraps around the construction site of Parco, a department store being …Read more »
No way around it: the end (and beginning) of a year is always list-heavy. This one’s a bit different, though, in that it has nothing to do with 2016. Nope, this is something a bit more ambitious. Music and entertainment magazine Paste has put together …Read more »
If the success of American television broadcasts of anime titles such as Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans , Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure , and One-Punch Man isn’t enough to fill your anime fan spirits with hope for what’s to come, then perhaps going psycho is the answer. For …Read more »
I don’t know what strange stream of consciousness led me to think about the Streamline Pictures trailer reel with its oh-so-smooth narrator promising us the best in “state of the art Japanese animation," but that thought triggered a cascade of memories, none more prevalent than …Read more »
In light of Funimation’s re-release of the TV series X , directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, we decided to look back at his classic film Wicked City , as well as Kawajiri’s early work. Released in Japan in 1987, Wicked City (or ‘Supernatural Beast City’ as …Read more »
Anime has always been dominated by trends. If a show comes out and hits it big, you can be assured that several more shows that are awfully similar to it are going to follow in the hopes of recapturing that lightning in a bottle. The …Read more »
Matt Schley
Danica Davidson
Kara Dennison
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Darius Washington
