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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 ...
Chicago Futabakai Japanese School (シカゴ双葉会日本語学校, Shikago Futabakai Nihongo Gakkō, CFJS; "Futabakai" means "two leaves" or "bud" organization, or "organization of growing sprouts"), alternately in Japanese Shikago Nihonjin Gakkō (シカゴ日本人学校, Chicago Japanese person School), is a Japanese elementary and junior high day school and Saturday education program in ...
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.
ABC Animation, Inc. [a] is a Japanese animation planning, production and content company that serves as a subsidiary of the Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdings Corporation. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo , the company was formed as part of a spin-off of ABC's animation co-production business into a separate company, as part of a major restructuring of ...
After working as a background artist for productions such as Akira and Kiki's Delivery Service, Kamiyama joined Production I.G, contributing the screenplay of Blood: The Last Vampire and working as an animation director for Jin-Roh. In 2002, Kamiyama made his directorial debut with MiniPato, followed by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
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 ...
Toei Animation [8] Signal International [2] January 1, 1964: The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon: Yūgo Serikawa Toei Animation: Columbia Pictures — — July 23, 1966 [9] [10] Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon [11] Yoshio Kuroda [12] Toei Animation [13] Continental [13] N/A N/A 1970: A Thousand and One Nights: Eiichi Yamamoto ...