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 ...

Even if you’ve watched Akira multiple times, you may not have seen it presented on the big screen before… and very likely not in 4K and IMAX. That opportunity arrives September 4, when Crunchyroll and ...

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 ...

A brand-new 35mm print of Ôtomo Katsuhiro’s “Akira” – struck from the 4K master and the first of its kind to be created anywhere in the world in decades – will make its debut at BFI Southbank, London, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a starting budget of ¥500,000,000, which reportedly may have ballooned to ¥1.1 billion with advertising, translating the ...

Akira is heading back to the big screen, and it’s never looked this good before. The legendary cyberpunk anime film locks in its 4K and IMAX re-release date. Akira sets 4K & IMAX re-release date with ...