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'The Akira Project' Faithfully Adapts The Manga [Video]
'The Akira Project' Faithfully Adapts The Manga [Video]
'The Akira Project' Faithfully Adapts The Manga [Video]
It's tough to say whether the much-talked about, sometimes-maligned live-action adaptation of Akira, the latest iteration of which would have "localized" the movie to an unrecognizable pulp, will ever see the light of day, but a group of fans may have already bested anything Hollywood could have accomplished anyway. The three-minute-plus trailer created by The Akira Project looks and fee
The Art Of 'Bartkira' At Portland's Floating World Comics
The Art Of 'Bartkira' At Portland's Floating World Comics
The Art Of 'Bartkira' At Portland's Floating World Comics
For the better part of the past year (and some change), Tumblr has beheld one of the most blissful art jams of the current millenium, a panel-for-panel recreation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira manga starring the cast of The Simpsons appropriately dubbed, Bartkira. Inspired by Ryan Humphrey, organized by James Harvey and featuring the work of a sprawling assortment of artists from all over the web, th
Doraemon Meets Akira In Disturbing 2020 Tokyo Olympics Video
Doraemon Meets Akira In Disturbing 2020 Tokyo Olympics Video
Doraemon Meets Akira In Disturbing 2020 Tokyo Olympics Video
The city of Tokyo won its bid to host the 2020 Olympics this past fall, leading many people, this site included, to draw the parallel between reality and the post-apocalyptic manga and anime feature film Akira, which took place in the run-up to the 2020 Olympic Games in Neo-Tokyo. The organizers real-life Games in Tokyo have turned to another manga/anime, Doraemon, to help promote the Olympics. Th
'Akira' Creator Katsuhiro Otomo Draws Astro Boy For Magazine
'Akira' Creator Katsuhiro Otomo Draws Astro Boy For Magazine
'Akira' Creator Katsuhiro Otomo Draws Astro Boy For Magazine
The business journal Anime Busience has scored another coup with its cover art for its spring 2014 issue, landing a gorgeous image of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy drawn by none other than Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo. The magazine's two previous issues have featured a Space Battleship Yamato cover by by Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno and an Akira cover by Evangelion character designer Yushiyuki Sada
AKIRA Remake Director Says Story Lacks 'Strong Characters'
AKIRA Remake Director Says Story Lacks 'Strong Characters'
AKIRA Remake Director Says Story Lacks 'Strong Characters'
While promoting what's surely a startlingly insightful drama about richly textured character portraits trapped on a CGI plane with Liam Neeson and a bomb or something, director Jaume Collett-Serra stopped talking about Non-Stop long enough to remark that his next project might be the on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again live-action adaptation of AKIRA. The director hopes t
Tokyo Gets 2020 Olympic Games Just Like In Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira'
Tokyo Gets 2020 Olympic Games Just Like In Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira'
Tokyo Gets 2020 Olympic Games Just Like In Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira'
Over the weekend, the International Olympic Committee announced that Tokyo will be the host for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games. That's great news for the city, except, as basically everyone on social media pointed out after the announcement, it could possibly mean Tokyo will be destroyed by psionic super-people and overrun by teenage motorcyle gangs. Why, you ask? Because the exact s
Warner Bros. 'Akira' Masaru Espers Concept Art Howard Lau Design
Warner Bros. 'Akira' Masaru Espers Concept Art Howard Lau Design
Warner Bros. 'Akira' Masaru Espers Concept Art Howard Lau Design
The live action cinematic adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira may be moving forward again under Warner Bros. and director Jaume Collet-Serra, but it remains to be seen if any of the art commissioned back when the movie was to be set in Neo Manhattan and star mostly white actors will move past the concept stage and into an eventual film. That said, it's become less outright entertaining to look a

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