The manga also helps contextualize plot threads and the world of Neo-Tokyo in general. The 35th Anniversary Box Set comes with a hardcover Akira Club art book and an exclusive pill patch.

However, there is still the question of when this new manga will launch. Back in 2012, Otomo informed fans he was preparing work on his first long project since Akira debuted.

Akira is widely regarded as one of the best animated films and manga of all time, and right now you can save big on the 4K Blu-ray as well as the 35th anniversary manga box set at Amazon.

It's been announced that a new Akira anime series is being developed by creator Katsuhiro Otomo that will more closely adapt the original manga. There's also a 4K remaster of the 1988 movie on the ...

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 ...

Akira served as a spiritual follow-up to many of the plot elements Otomo was unable to include in his earlier 1979 sci-fi manga effort Fireball, focusing on young rebellious characters that would ...

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 ...

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