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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

These anime from the 1980s are arguably even more impressive today than they were decades ago.

Legendary manga artist, writer, and animation director Katsuhiro Otomo, known for being selective in his works, held court at this year’s Anime Expo to make a handful of announcements about his future ...

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.

In a series of tweets, Kanye West has expressed his admiration for Katsuhiro Otomo’s animated feature Akira, calling it “the greatest animation achievement in history.” West goes on to say that the ...

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Barbara James is a writer for Collider and a content creator. Currently, she works at Screen Rant as an Video Game Features Writer. As a graduate with a major in English, Barbara has worked as an ...

A post-apocalyptic war torn neo-Tokyo, Greek statues come to chorus girl dancing life, a psychedelic Snow White with a sprinkling of Bambi fetishism and some hard-core erotic and amusing (are the two ...