Akira

Warm up your "Sweet and Happy Boy's Love Life" with another huge issue of Gush, for Boy's Love manga fans. This is a thick manga with 480 pages of nice artwork and romantic stories by some great BL artists. In this January issue there are 12 exciting stories by individual artists including Tak...

Shitamachi" literally means "downtown" and it refers to the old part of Tokyo, and this is a great erotic manga by Akira Ozaki and Action Comics. When world renowned (and busty) princess Maria Som Gerald comes to live in Japan with her (equally busty) friend Yukie Hazuki, Yukie's son will r...

By yonghow The Art of Satoshi Kon’s Millenium ActressSpring in Tokyo, and pretty Cherry Blossoms.Revisiting the Art of Akira Part I - Akira Animation ArchivesAnime’s Love Affair with Railway TracksYakitori delights in Miyoshi, Tokyo Having visited the Art of Millenium Actress in a previous pos...

No habrá película de acción real de Akira, el clásico manga y posiblemente la cinta de animación japonesa más famosa de la historia. El proyecto, que auspiciaban la Warner Bros y Leonardo DiCaprio, está literalmente muerto. Allá por octubre de 2007, ...

 CA Bloody Disgusting now reports that the live-action Akira has been pronounced "Dead as a doornail" by not one, but two inside sources -- I guess we should have seen this coming when the film was promised to be released in 2009, and there wasn't a signed ...

Kiss a live-action look at spectacularly dystopian future goodbye. The live action remake of manga classic Akira is dead. Sad: We so wanted to see The Capsules, or at least the jacket, in real life. The movie was rumored to take the six-book original ...

 Netherlands De live-action film van de populaire anime Akira gaat er volgens Bloody Disgusting niet meer komen. Het project is "as dead as a doornail". De film was in handen van Warner Brothers en Leonardo DiCaprio's productiemaatschappij Appian Way, terwijl Gary ...

 MA The live-action adaptation of the classic anime Akira is dead, according to a report from Bloody Disgusting. The film has been in the hands of Warner Brothers and Leonardo DiCaprio's production company Appian Way for some time, and Gary Whitta (The ...

Akira is called the "definitive classic of anime". It's hard to imagine why, as the attempt to cram an unfinished manga (comic) into a compact film left the plot of Akira confusing and only partially explained. Pair that with the graphic violence and ...

By yonghow Revisiting the Art of Akira Part II - Akira ClubRevisiting the Art of Akira Part I - Akira Animation ArchivesAkira on Blu-rayWho is Katsuhiro Otomo ? 大友克洋 新解説Freedom screenplay + art of book 01 “The Continuity of Akira” is a 2 volume storyboard book set published in 1988 (right around the t...

 UT And if they are smart it will be an opening to read the comic. Example: I viewed Akira before reading the manga. There are many, many differences, but overall I liked the manga better. However, no one can say the movie is bad (the movie is great), ...

By yonghow Revisiting the Art of Akira Part I - Akira Animation ArchivesKatsuhiro Otomo + Katsuya Terada = VIVA IL CICLISSIMO!Freedom screenplay + art of book 01Brutus Special Issue : Takehiko InoueWho is Katsuhiro Otomo ? 大友克洋 新解説 Published in 1995, some 6 years after the film’s initial release,...

press release) With it being the 55th anniversary of Akira Kurosawa’s legendary movie the Seven Samurai, it is the perfect time for the release of the manga adaptation of the anime it inspired. This is the manga adaptation of the stellar anime series based on Akira ...

Instead, they seem much more like three random films that just happen to take place in Tokyo. With "Interior Design," Gondry explores notions of love and uselessness as he follows a young couple who move to Tokyo. Akira (Ryo Kase) is an indie filmmaker ...

 OH Told in the manga style of graphic novels, the artwork by Akira Hanasaki lets the reader savor each chapter step by step. The main character, Yamaoka Shiro, is on a quest for items to be part of the "ultimate menu." Although hardly what one would ...

By yonghow The Akira Animation Archives contains the most comprehensive collection of “behind the scenes” artwork from the animation film ( for artwork on the manga series, watch out for part II ), from concept sketches, in depth character sheets, background art, layout boards, mecha design, th...

 Japan In many Japanese films, however, from Akira Kurosawa's "Shubun" ("Scandal," 1950) to Satoru Isaka's "Focus" (1996) and even Keiichi Hara's "Kappa no Coo to Natsuyasumi" ("Summer Days with Coo," 2007), an anime for children, the media is portrayed as a ...

 - Jan 17, 2009 The anime DragonBall Z will be released in April and rumors have been buzzing for quite some time on the possibilities of the classic Akira becoming a live ...

 Canada - He watched Japanese animation (manga) like Ninja Scroll, Akira and Ghost in the Shell. Films and comics have helped him develop the ability to see where the ...

 CA - Ketch confronts a Japanese Ghost Rider clearly cribbed from Kaneda in the anime classic Akira. Aaron isn't exactly shy about showing off his cinematic ...

By 1UP Staff The Nintendo DS game will be released on March 28, 2009 in Japan for ?5980 ($64), somewhat more expensive than the ?4800 ($52) DS average but still well below many predictions. Wada had previously stated that he would set the DQIX price point as high as the market would bear, but Bandai Namco...

 NY - Dec 3, 2008 A young Japanese couple, Hiroko (Ayako Fujitani) and Akira (Ryo Kase), have arrived in the big city of Tokyo from a smaller town. They are short on cash and ...

Yeah, Tokyo’s got to be number one simply by sheer volume of manga/anime, let alone live action films. Akira, Evangelion, Neo-Tokyo, X, Fist of the North Star – the list is pretty much endless. And do films like Grave of the Fireflies ...

AKIRA (1988) (***) (First Reviewed 3/12/03) This film has long been considered the best anime film of all-time. That’s not really saying too much about anime… I liked the idea of humans tapping into the potential of mind… ...

By Elisabeth Rappe Filed under: Action, Classics, Foreign Language, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Scripts, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and SequelsIt's been two months since we heard anything about the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced Akira. This is a remake th...

By Alex Billington Dong-Kun Jang (Brotherhood) as Jubei in Ninja Scroll and Ji-tae Yu (Oldboy) as Kaneda in Akira….Now we need more motion towards the Wicked City live-action movie, I was always hoping David Cronenberg would direct it… ...

By Mike Sampson One project I'm keeping a very close eye on is the Warner Bros. live-action remake of the anime classic AKIRA. Leonardo DiCaprio is producing with an eye towards staring as Kaneda but beyond that we didn't really know much about how the film would change for American audiences. Well a Latino R...

By john@themovieblog.com (John Campea) People are worried about Akira being translated to an American audience in a live action epic. Well fear not true believers! We get a peek at just how the.

By Peter Martin Writer Alex Tse (Watchmen, Frankie Machine) has been hired, but Leo "is not planning to act in the film," according to Variety. Leo may not be able to open an Iraq-themed action picture, but he can still get long-gestating anime adaptations into development, i.e. Akira, and now Ninja Scroll...

NEW YORK — "I was honestly dumfounded," Akira Ueda recently wrote, "when I learned that the gold medalist judoka Satoshi Ishii told the Emperor, 'I fought for you, Your Majesty.' " Ishii made that statement when Olympic medalists and others were invited to tea at the Imperial Palace by the...

NEW YORK — "I was honestly dumfounded," Akira Ueda recently wrote, "when I learned that the gold medalist judoka Satoshi Ishii told the Emperor, 'I fought for you, Your Majesty.' " Ishii made that statement when Olympic medalists and others were invited to tea at the Imperial Palace by the...

By Andrew Fitch You're reading a Tokyo Game Show 2008 preview, which we've broken into three sections to make it easy to sift through during this week of convention madness. Check out TGS.1UP.COM for all (meaning words, screens, and videos) of our coverage from the show. What's the game about? Sure, Dragon B...

By slimepuppy 20 years after its cinematic debut, Akira is being released on bluray. Visit the official site (in Japanese). Read the manga (and then buy it!). Listen to the soundtrack by Geinoh Yamashirogumi (in Japanese). (buy it too!) Fear the soon-to-be-release live action remake.

By Yuyan Chen 455, 971 (2008). doi:10.1038/nature07399 Authors: Yuyan Chen, Junko Takita, Young Lim Choi, Motohiro Kato, Miki Ohira, Masashi Sanada, Lili Wang, Manabu Soda, Akira Kikuchi, Takashi Igarashi, Akira Nakagawara, Yasuhide Hayashi, Hiroyuki Mano & Seishi Ogawa

By Matt Laferty Akira Ishikawa had a mission. He wanted to find the eternal now of rhythm. After a mind-blowing trip to Africa in 1970, the Japanese percussionist had a goal -- true Afro-delic Acid Rock. He hooked up with composer Muroaka Takeru and this album was born in 1971. Awash in minimalist percussion -...

By Kevin Buist io9 has confirmed an earlier report that Ridley Scott will direct an adaptation of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s classic dystopian future novel. Scott says that Leonardo DiCaprio approached him about adapting the book, and it looks like he will star in the film as well. This is exciti...

By dimashu In my pocket review that I wrote for Akira nearly eight years ago now, I called it the ultimate cyberpunk anime. What is ultimately astounding is that the.

By Sachie Hiratsuka 10, 1349 (2008). doi:10.1038/ncb1794 Authors: Sachie Hiratsuka, Akira Watanabe, Yoshiko Sakurai, Sachiko Akashi-Takamura, Sachie Ishibashi, Kensuke Miyake, Masabumi Shibuya, Shizuo Akira, Hiroyuki Aburatani & Yoshiro Maru

Akira is the movie that anime nuts try to force me to watch whenever I tell them how much I loathe the art form. All of it. And I’m not watching any more of it, not even to try out Akira. ...

By Alex Billington The idiots that have never seen Akira anime will probably love this movie because they wont have a reference point. Remember Fist of the Northstar?? That was the vilest crappiest anime to films ever done. My expectations in story are ...

One of the greatest post-apocalyptic thrillers ever told was the animated Manga Akira, which saw an announcement wayyyy back in July of 2003 that James Robinson would pen the adaptation with director Steven Norrington. ...

By Jean Snow The video for Kanye West's new single, "Stronger" -- the one that samples Daft Punk quite liberally -- takes inspiration from Katsuhiro Otomo's classic AKIRA film.

By Bill Sherman Starring American actor Nick Adams (who'd previously appeared in Toho's Frankenstein Conquers the World) with his voice dubbed into Japanese on the subtitled version (as with the Ghidorah DVD, Classic Media provides both English and Japanese versions of the flick), Astro-Monster t...

By Akira Ohnuma Akira Ohnuma, Ryu Abe, Tamaki Shibayama, Bunsho Ohtani Communication from Chem. Commun.) Akira Ohnuma, Chem. Commun., 2007, DOI: 10.1039/b705697d To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.

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By Greg Former Nintendo Chairman Yamauchi Now Third Richest Japanese Forbes, the magazine for people with far more money than me, has released their annual list of the richest men in Japan. Guess who has risen from eleventh to third. That’s right, everybody’s favorite vampire, Hiroshi Yamauchi....

Animeondvd.com is reporting that Bandai Visual Japan has released new specifications for the next generation DVD release they have planed in Japan in 2007. The listing was first published in Watch Impress magazine. Akira, Wings of Honneamise, Patlabor Movie 1 and Patlabor Movie 2 are all...

By Philipp Lenssen One of the many full-length movies posted to Google Video – with varying degrees of quality – is Akira. This anime classic was uploaded in late January this year, and accumulated a walloping 63,979 views so far. I asked a couple of questions to the uploader, who identifies himself as Lt. Zerge...

San Francisco-based anime and manga giant VIZ Media announced that it has acquired the Blue Dragon television, home video and non-video game merchandising rights for the Americas, Europe and Oceania. Kids in Fiji, your prayers have been answered! The cartoon is based on the Xbox 360 gam...

That's right, Blue Dragon could be the last anime for Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Quest character designer. It's based off the Hironobu Sakaguchi Xbox 360 game of the same. At the recent Tokyo Anime Fair, the animator said: The offer to direct an animated version of Bl...