The creator of the legendary Akira anime has a new animation studio with a website that hints at the arrival of a new ...

Story by Koji Uchida Katsuhiro Otomo, the legendary manga artist and film director behind the cyberpunk masterpiece Akira, is ...

More than a decade after his last feature, Katsuhiro Otomo is launching Oval Gear Animation Studio to build a new generation ...

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.

The Toonseum in Pittsburgh, PA is currently hosting the largest collection of art ever displayed from Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime classic Akira. The exhibit only runs until July 18th, so grab your ...

Internet lore has it that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas turned down the chance to pick up the rights to the exalted 1988 anime Akira, believing it to be unmarketable in America. Twenty years later ...

The creator of Akira has officially launched a new anime studio, OVAL GEAR, and it’s already producing a new title.

Despite it being one of the loudest animated films ever made, Akira begins in eerie silence. In the year 1988, an unknown singularity suddenly and entirely wipes out the city of Tokyo, the screen ...

Remember that awesome “Art of Akira” show that’s now open in Pittsburgh? io9 caught up with its curator, Joe Peacock, who gave us the scoop on the exhibit’s history and allowed us to showcase some of ...

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