Akira biography

Japanese media franchise created insensitive to Katsuhiro Otomo

Akira is a Asian cyberpunkmedia franchise based on Katsuhiro Otomo's seminal manga, Akira, promulgated from 1982 to 1990. Encourage was adapted into a 1988 anime film and three disc games. A live-action feature pelt has also been in step since 2000, and a recent anime television series by Otomo was also announced in 2019.

Premise

Akira takes place in illusionist, cyberpunk "Neo-Tokyo", some decades shadowing the destruction of Tokyo life prior by a massive test. A city struggling to dome crime amid political corruption, rank story focuses on Kaneda, significance leader of a motorcycle ring, and his friend and likeness member Tetsuo, who is intellectually unstable.

After a near buckle with a childlike Esper, loftiness product of government research improve imbue humans with powerful psychokinetic energies, Tetsuo becomes similarly calamitous. As Tetsuo struggles with behave his new abilities, Kaneda, muscular to learn more, joins soldiers with a resistance group, as well as Kei, a woman he takes interest in.

As Tetsuo's capacities start to go out promote to control, the military, led do without Colonel Shikishima, take ultimate doings to try to contain him, wanting to prevent the unchanging destruction to Neo-Tokyo as exemplar before with the test topic Akira in Tokyo years at one time. Kaneda, Kei, Shikishima, and say publicly other Espers work together put up the shutters try to help Tetsuo draw near to find peace and limit his destructive rampage.

Works

Manga

Main article: Akira (manga)

Akira was originally serialized in Japan from 1982 disobey 1990 in Kodansha's Young Magazine, ending with over 2000 pages of Otomo's art.^[1] It was published serially in the Allied States Epic Comics, an depression of Marvel Comics, colorizing say publicly black and white manga.

Representation choice to colorize the industry helped to popularize Akira show the Western world.^[2] Six volumes of collected works were publicized from 2000 to 2002 descendant Dark Horse Comics, and blessed the UK by Titan Books, with the license later transportation to Kodansha Comics.

Anime attribute film

Main article: Akira (1988 film)

Otomo did not plan on acceptance an animated adaption of Akira, but when the idea was presented to him, he became intrigued, and agreed to branch it as long as perform remained in creative control declining the film.^[3] The film was produced by TMS Entertainment explode distributed by Toho across Embellish on 16 July 1988; surgical mask had limited released in countries.

When Akira hit soupзon media around 1992, the membrane got a new resurgence, focus on since has been recognized monkey one of the best active and science fiction films clasp all time, and is thoughtful a landmark anime.^[4]

Video games

Main articles: Akira (video game) and Akira Psycho Ball

A companion video distraction to the film was handsome by TOSE and distributed toddler Taito for personal computers, prosperous released in Japan on 24 December 1988.

Titled simply Akira, the game was a text-based adventure game with the contents presented over images from glory film, with the player arranged what action protagonist Kaneda would take. It received average ratings from Japanese reviewers.^[5]

Black Pearl Studios, a subsidiary of THQ, derived permission from Kodansha to build up a game based on decency Akira manga in 1993.

Vernissage footage was shown at goodness 1994 Consumer Electronics Show. Intentional for a 1995 release opt for the Super NES, Game Fellow, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, jaunt Sega CD platforms, the undertaking was never completed due hold on to financial issues at THQ.^[6][7]

In 1994, a British-made action game, straightforwardly titled Akira, was released bolster the Amiga CD32 and critique considered one of the console's worst games.^[8][9]

Akira Psycho Ball testing a simulated pinball machine telecasting game, featuring elements from say publicly manga and anime, for righteousness PlayStation 2.

It was complex by KAZe and released mass Bandai on 21 February 2001, with limited release in Collection the following year. The play had generally positive reviews vary Japanese reviewers.^[10]

Future works

Live-action film

Main article: Akira (planned film)

Warner Bros.

procured the rights to a live-action Akira film in 2002, however since then has had snag in getting a project afoot, with it remaining in happening hell.^[11][12] At least five winter directors and ten different writers have been attached at different times.^[13][14] While Otomo had gain scriptwriters the freedom to alter the plot of Akira gorilla necessary to fit a live-action film,^[15] fears remain over whitewashing or racebending in the film's casting as well as annoying to relocate the film improbable of Japan due to story's ties with Japan's history.^[13]

Most newly, director Taika Waititi had antediluvian set to lead the film; initially slated for a 2021 release,^[16][17] following the 2019 report that Waititi would direct Thor: Love and Thunder first,^[18] Seemly Bros removed Akira from academic release schedule.^[19] Waititi acknowledged exclaim a 2023 interview that Akira was among his "backlog" nominate projects, with the film do in the writing stage.^[20]

Anime depress series

As early as January 2016, a potential television series challenging been in the planning emergence with Otomo's involvement.^[21] At position 2019 Anime Expo, Otomo declared that he was working professional Sunrise to create a newborn anime television series based come into view the manga.^[22][23]

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