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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 three video games. A live-action feature film has also been in development since 2000, and a new anime television series by Otomo was also announced in 2019.
Akira (Japanese: アキラ) is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film [4] directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name.
With Akira and the espers, he ascends to a higher plane of existence. The Colonel ( 大佐 , Taisa ) The Colonel (born November 15, 1977), [ 11 ] last name Shikishima ( 敷島 ) , is the head of the secret government project conducting research on psychic test subjects (including the Esper children, Tetsuo, and formerly Akira).
He also borrowed the name Shikishima for the colonel and the name of Shikishima's son, Tetsuo, for the character Tetsuo Shima; he has stated in the Akira Club book that it could be said that Akira is based on Tetsujin 28-go (Akira himself is referred to as "No. 28" by the scientists experimenting on the espers).
Claw (爪, Tsume) is a criminal organization composed of many Espers, gathering others with psychic powers for their scheme to achieve world domination. The Super 5 (5超, Gochō) serve as the right hands of their group's leader Touichirou Suzuki with their top agents referred to as the Scars (傷, Kizu), named for the wound inflicted on them when they defied and/or challenged Touichirou.
The surprise death of Akira Toriyama, the beloved artist behind the Dragon Ball manga and the classic Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger video games, may be 2024’s first death to be felt around the ...
Colombian superstar Shakira is returning to the animal world of “Zootopia” next year. The news was announced on Friday at the D23 Brazil expo during Pixar’s panel. Shakira filmed a surprise ...
Akira is a proposed American cyberpunk action film based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Katsuhiro Otomo, and was set to be the second film adaptation following the 1988 anime version. The film will be written by Taika Waititi , Michael Golamco , and Charles Yu .