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Best Art Ever (This Week) - 08.30.13
Best Art Ever (This Week) - 08.30.13
Best Art Ever (This Week) - 08.30.13
We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we’ve created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwor
Funimation Announces 'Akira' 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray/DVD, Including Both English Dubs
Funimation Announces 'Akira' 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray/DVD, Including Both English Dubs
Funimation Announces 'Akira' 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray/DVD, Including Both English Dubs
  That feeling you just felt? That was at least a little of the grossness of the potential Warner Bros. live action Akira movie being rinsed from your soul by the righteous news that Funimation has announced plans to release a 25th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray and DVD of Katsuhiro Otomo's original manga-turned-animated feature by the end of the year. It's not just a feel-good nostalgia bomb for lon
Good for Health: ‘AKIRA’ Bike Rides Across Japan for Autism Charity [Video]
Good for Health: ‘AKIRA’ Bike Rides Across Japan for Autism Charity [Video]
Good for Health: ‘AKIRA’ Bike Rides Across Japan for Autism Charity [Video]
Shinji Tejima spent several years and the equivalent of about $120,000 American dollars to create a flawless replica of the iconic red motorcycle seen in AKIRA, the landmark 1980s manga and anime written and drawn by Katsuhiro Otomo. The justification for such an endeavor is manifest, and the owner could have chosen to simply ride the bike around the world for the rest of his life with both middle
‘AKIRA’ Creator Katsuhiro Otomo to Return to Long-Form Manga
‘AKIRA’ Creator Katsuhiro Otomo to Return to Long-Form Manga
‘AKIRA’ Creator Katsuhiro Otomo to Return to Long-Form Manga
The great mangaka Katsuhiro Otomo is recognized around the world for his enormous influence on comic books and anime, a legacy cemented in his seminal work, AKIRA -- a 2,000-page opus that remains Otomo's only long-form manga. That is set to change, however, when Otomo begins work on what will be his first extended serial in more than 20 years...
‘Akira’ Movie Update: Kaneda the Bartender and Actual Japanese Person Offered Role
‘Akira’ Movie Update: Kaneda the Bartender and Actual Japanese Person Offered Role
‘Akira’ Movie Update: Kaneda the Bartender and Actual Japanese Person Offered Role
As predicted by George Takei in April, Warner Bros. Pictures seems intent on making its live-action adaptation of AKIRA -- the seminal manga and anime by Katsuhiro Otomo -- as pointless as possible. Takei and other AKIRA fans' pronounced unhappiness with the studio and producer Leonardo DiCaprio's plans to cast the film with non-Asian actors was compounded this week with the release of a plot syno

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