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In 1989, the Disney Animation Studio enjoyed huge commercial success with their take on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale. A cel-animated piece, that effectively launched a new era of Disney ...

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The finale of “Akira” is only one example of apocalyptic imagery in the anime and manga canon; a number of anime films and comics are rife with atomic bomb references, which appear in any ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the ...

Akira is set in an alternate 2019, 31 years after the Japanese government dropped an atomic bomb on Tokyo ... s seminal work (based on his own manga), and it’s absolutely gorgeous.

Dubbed Akira, the project we’ll be featuring today is one of their latest. Readers who are into anime and manga will have immediately recognized that name, as it was taken from one of the most ...