Holy shit, this tribute to Akira is good
Akira is the gift that keeps on giving, a proto-cyberpunk vision of the apocalypse that has only gotten more ineffably…
Can a lifelong anime skeptic learn to love it?
How much of the stuff that you don’t like have you actually given a fair shake? I’m posing this question to you, the…
Taika Waititi now in talks for the live-action Akira movie
Warner Bros. controls the rights to make a live-action version of iconic anime film/manga series Akira, and the studio…
Jordan Peele won’t direct the live-action Akira after all
It sounds like Jordan Peele has successfully avoided the live-action anime adaptation trap. Blumhouse.com reports that…
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Take a tour through Imaginary Cities, from Blade Runner to High-Rise to Gotham
For as long as human beings have huddled together in communities, architecture has played a role in their lives. From…
It’s Rumor Time: Is Jordan Peele in talks to direct Akira?
Get Out is a bona fide phenomenon, a massive critical and commercial success that made history as the first debut film…
An unreleased Akira Game Boy game has been unearthed
The video game collector Patrick Scott Patterson hunts down rare and unfinished games and video game ephemera, but he…
Akira’s secret weapon is its clever use of lighting
Akira is generally recognized as a masterpiece of animation, and it’s highly regarded for a number of…
Akira, but it’s just people yelling “Tetsuo” and “Kaneda” the whole time
Akira is a great, weird film—a visionary piece of cyberpunk fiction and one of the sharpest, most engaging animated…
Akira kicked open the door for manga’s rise to popularity in the U.S.
This week: Katsuhiro Otomo’s award-winning Akira Vol 1., a seminal work frequently credited as the trigger for the…
Fans reimagine and pay tribute to Akira using CG animation
It’s been 28 years since the film debuted (and more than 30 after the original manga ran), and Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira…
It’s Rumor Time: Warner Bros. might want Justin Lin to direct Akira
Apparently, somebody at Warner Bros. recently woke up from a long nap and realized that nothing has been done with that…
“Megaplex” is the audio-visual mixtape fever dream of pop culture you need
Supercuts and mash-ups are all the rage on the internet these days. Compiling disparate clips with a running theme, or…
It’s Rumor Time: That live-action Akira movie will be a trilogy
It’s been a while since we checked in on everyone’s favorite eternally-in-development project, the live-action…
Bartkira trailer takes The Simpsons to Neo-Springfield
Bartkira, the strange–and strangely wonderful–mashup of the Japanese manga/anime classic Akira and The Simpsons, now…
Warner Bros. hires Daredevil showrunner to write an Akira script
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. has tapped Marco Ramirez to pen its long-stewing live-action…
That live-action Akira everyone hates is still happening, apparently
Looks like Warner Bros. has finally learned to be appropriately ashamed of its live-action Akira remake. The…
Akira meets The Simpsons in Bartkira comic
While American studios have reportedly abandoned their plans for a live-action remake of Akira, that hasn’t prevented…
Fans made a pretty awesome fake trailer for a live-action Akira movie
As reported extensively by The A.V. Club’s own Sean O’Neal, the live-action, Americanized version of the classic…