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The "Akira slide" scene is regarded as an iconic anime scene, widely imitated and referenced in many works of animation, film and television. The "Akira slide" refers to a scene where Kaneda slides into view with his motorbike, as he uses a sideways slide to bring his bike to a halt, while the bike gives off a trail of smoke and electric sparks ...
Akira (アキラ, stylized as AKIRA in English) is a Japanese cyberpunk media franchise based on Katsuhiro Otomo's seminal manga, Akira, published from 1982 to 1990.It was translated into more than a dozen languages and adapted into a 1988 anime film and three video games, among other adaptations.
Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋, Ōtomo Katsuhiro, born April 14, 1954) is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He first rose to prominence as a pioneer founder of the New Wave in the 1970s. He is best known as the creator of Akira, both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation.
Afforded one of the biggest budgets ever seen for an anime, almost every frame is created with an immense amount of hand-drawn detail that feels tangible in its construction. Akira remains one of ...
Prison School (Japanese: 監獄学園 （ プリズンスクール ）, Hepburn: Purizun Sukūru) [a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akira Hiramoto. It was serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from February 2011 to December 2017. Yen Press licensed the manga for English release in North America. The story takes ...
It actually predates the seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer (1984), which was released two years after Akira began serialization in 1982 and was not translated into Japanese until 1985. [90] Akira inspired a wave of Japanese cyberpunk-infused manga and anime works, including Ghost in the Shell, Battle Angel Alita, Cowboy Bebop, and Serial ...
Japanese artist Akira Toriyama, known for the hugely popular Dragon Ball comics, has died at the age of 68. Toriyama died on 1 March after suffering acute subdural hematoma , a type of bleeding ...
TMS is one of the oldest and most renowned animation studios in Japan, known for its numerous anime franchises such as Detective Conan, Lupin the Third, and Anpanman. [4] TMS Entertainment is the animation business company of the Sega Group and a well-established animation studio with its origins in Tokyo Movie.