Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo is starting to tease his next manga project yet again. By Megan Peters. October 26, 2023, 6:01pm. ... “I had a dream Otomo-sensei drew a new manga.”.

For those of you unfamiliar with Akira, the acclaimed manga was published in 1982 before Otomo directed its 1988 anime film. The story is set in a dystopian world following the bleak close of ...

Warner Bros. has had the live-action film rights to Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark cyberpunk manga and anime since 2002. In that ...

Trying to bring what is widely regarded as one of the greatest animes ever made into the real world is no easy task, so much ...

We have news that will likely be viewed as cause for celebration for most Akira fans, as Warner Bros. has lost the rights to ...

After two decades in production hell, Warner Bros. has given the film rights to Katsuhiro Otomo's 'Akira' back to manga ...

Based on Otomo’s best-selling, voluminous manga of the same name (which was still being published when its adaptation was released), Akira is set in a 2019 Neo-Tokyo balanced on a knife-edge ...

Otomo, who also created the original Akira manga, announced the news during a panel at the Anime Expo in Los Angeles. The series will be produced by Bandai Namco’s Sunrise, although few other ...

What with this year’s Anime Expo underway, one of the bigger pieces of news from the event is that the 'Akira' manga will be re-adapted into an anime series and its author Katsuhiro Otomo is ...

Akira grew from Otomo’s equally visionary manga, serialized in the pages of Young Magazine between 1982 until 1990. “Usually in Japan, manga comes out either monthly or weekly or bi-weekly, in ...