Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. The interesting part about this new anime adaptation of Akira is ...

Legendary manga artist, writer, and animation director Katsuhiro Otomo, known for being selective in his works, held court at this year’s Anime Expo to make a handful of announcements about his future ...

Like Moebius, Katsuhiro Otomo is a creator's creator. He's perhaps best known for the animated version of Akira, his beautiful feature film about the perils of power, but before it was a movie Akira ...

The news was first announced Thursday night during a Sunrise Inc. panel at the Anime Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Details are scarce, but this new Akira won’t be a reboot of his manga or ...

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Akira manga as penned by Katsuhiro Otomo. To commemorate that, we have an upcoming release of classic Otomo posters and they are gorgeous. This new poster ...

Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime landmark Akira returned to movie screens across the United States and Canada on September 4 in a ...

Hosted every year in France, the Angoulême International Comics Festival is the biggest comic con in the world, surpassing even San Diego’s mighty Comic-Con International by tens of thousands of ...

The man behind the seminal work in Japanimation is back with a 3,000-piece exhibition of original artwork, a new short film, and plans for a new manga series. For many people here the biggest draw is ...

Katsuhiro Otomo, the legendary manga artist and film director behind the cyberpunk masterpiece Akira, is making history once again. It has been revealed that Otomo has established his own production ...

Katsuhiro Otomo, the creator of the Akira manga and director of the iconic 1988 anime film, has revealed his "one major condition" for a live-action movie adaptation."I did give one major condition to ...

'Akira' director Katsuhiro Otomo will direct a new anime series that will be a continuation of the steampunk cult classic that he made a name with and also work on 'Orbital Era,' his third anime ...