Akira The Anime

Directed by katsuhiro ôtomo.

Akira the anime. Akira is a landmark of animation and one of the most influential films of all time. Akira is a japanese cyberpunk media franchise based on katsuhiro otomo s seminal manga akira published from 1982 to 1990 it was adapted into a 1988 anime film and two video games. Akira unlike in the movie is figuratively an empty shell of his former self.

Mind blowing artwork from the anime classic akira. Set in a dystopian future the film follows the story of kaneda leader of a biker gang in the futuristic city of neo tokyo. The mysterious boy known simply as akira is the titular character of the akira universe both in the manga and anime.

It has been praised by numerous critics and mainstream media sources and even kanye paid homage to it in his cover to daft punk s stronger. A secret military project endangers neo tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics. It showed them how exciting creative and cerebral the world of japanese animation.

Akira a 1980s cyberpunk manga by katsuhiro otomo. Akira a 1988 video game based on the anime film. With mitsuo iwata nozomu sasaki mami koyama tesshô genda.

Akira was the first anime film to use pre scoring and to have fully detailed japanese lip sync. Akira a japanese cyberpunk franchise. A live action feature film has also been in development since 2000 and a new anime television series by otomo that will adapt the original manga more faithfully has also been announced.

To a couple of previous generations akira is one of those movies that got them into anime. Akira often stylized as akira is a japanese cyberpunk manga series written and illustrated by katsuhiro otomo it was initially serialized in the pages of young magazine a seinen manga magazine from 1982 until 1990 and then collected into six tankōbon volumes by its publisher kodansha between 1984 and 1991. His psychic powers have increased to the point where it has destroyed his.

He is a child who serves as a key driving force in the lives of the main characters particularly the psychic tetsuo shima. It was published in the united states by marvel comics under epic comics becoming. Akira s final budget was 10 million 1 1 billion making it the most expensive japanese animated film before studio ghibli s spirited away released in 2001.

Akira planned film a planned live action film adaptation of the manga. Akira psycho ball a 2002 pinball simulator for playstation 2 based on the anime film.