Buckle up, anime fans: a rare production cel from 1988's classic film Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo has been put up for auction by Heritage Auctions, a Dallas, Texas-based auction house dealing primarily ...

Katsuhiro Otomo’s dark, alienated “Akira” (1988) is widely credited with creating a mass audience for Japanese animation in America. It has been a perennial favorite on college campuses and in revival ...

Great news for fans of Katsuhiro Otomo's seminal Cyberpunk classic here, as it's been announced that a brand new anime series based on the original Akira manga is in the works. Otomo shared the news ...

Katsuhiro Otomo, who directed the 1988 film "Akira" and created the original manga that inspired it, announced he will also direct a new anime series that will be a continuation of the steampunk cult ...

"The Akira Project is a crowd-sourced, non-profit project meant to create a live action fan trailer of AKIRA, the renowned manga-turned-anime film from the late 1980′s; a stunning example of both ...

TanChun is a traveling film director and screenwriter who believes in positive Asian representation in Hollywood. She aspires to create more stories in Western media that give Asian actors a chance to ...

The live-action adaptation of Akira has been floating around the in development hell for 20 years. The latest director to be assigned the masterpiece is New Zealand's Marvel stalwart Taika Waititi, ...