My earliest memory of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime classic, came at 15, when, returning home from a night out, a friend told me with intoxicated enthusiasm that we should put on “the ...

We’re protesting in the streets, bracing for the next violent attack and debating how civil to be in confronting a government some say is wildly overreaching. There’s a reason a Japanese ...

Otomo had been a respected illustrator of manga, Japanese comics. But for "Akira," instead of trying to match his anime peers in Japan, he was working from European comic artists such as Moebius ...

In 1988, Otomo released “Akira” as an anime, a film so detailed and intricate that it took animators years to hand-paint each of the single shots used to bring the story to life. The film is ...

To cap it all off, in the episode’s final scene, Jerry accuses Rick of “turning [Morty] into an Akira.” "I don't wanna see any more anime stuff happening to my son!" Adult Swim “I don’t ...

For most people outside of Japan, Akira is probably their first contact with the world of manga and anime. The original manga is an epic work and the movie is arguably one of the finest animated ...