The creator of the legendary Akira anime has a new animation studio with a website that hints at the arrival of a new ...
The news was first announced Thursday night during a Sunrise Inc. panel at the Anime Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Details are scarce, but this new Akira won’t be a reboot of his manga or ...
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 sickest ...
It’s almost impossible to have discussions about essential, transgressive anime that broke barriers without touching upon 1988’s Akira. Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, adapted from his six-volume manga ...
Then came Akira — a film that exploded onto my screen, dragged me through a neon-lit dystopian Tokyo, and made me question everything I thought I knew about animation and storytelling. Dramatic? Yes.
'Akira' director Katsuhiro Otomo will direct a new anime series that will be a continuation of the steampunk cult classic that he made a name with and also work on 'Orbital Era,' his third anime ...
Katsuhiro Otomo has established a new studio with a promise to finally return with the anime series announced years ago.