Manga artist Katsuhiro Otomo unveiled his new mural art at the Sendai Airport on Thursday, four years after the area was hit by the tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Akira manga as penned by Katsuhiro Otomo. To commemorate that, we have an upcoming release of classic Otomo posters and they are gorgeous.

Kanye West is tweeting again, this time about famed Japanese artist and filmmaker Katsuhiro Otomo.Yeezy today (Aug. 27) shouted out Otomo's seminal 1998 work Akira, calling the movie his "biggest ...

Based on the popular series of comic books-sorry, make that graphic novels-by Katsuhiro Otomo, ”Akira” is, at a cost of $7 million, the most expensive animated film ever made in Japan. The ...

Akira Creator Pays Surprise Series’ Special L.A. Art Exhibit Katsuhiro Otomo was an extremely busy man during his visit to Los Angeles for the annual anime […] By Evan Valentine ...

Akira: Revisiting Katsuhiro Otomo’s Anime Classic. ... team of 70 animators worked at a ferocious pace, rendering tens of thousands of intricate cels and pieces of background art.

Nearly every seat was filled inside REDCAT's small theater on Saturday night when Katsuhiro Otomo took to the stage. The anime auteur was on hand to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for this ...

Writer/director Katsuhiro Otomo's 1988 movie Akira is the Citizen Kane of Japanese animation—the seminal masterwork that led a generation of admirers to pursue careers in film. But even the most ...

Akira creator, Katsuhiro Otomo, shocked fans when the mangaka announced that the franchise would be making a return to television at some point in the near future, though details about the ...

Born in April 1954, the artist grew up in Japan’s Miyagi prefecture and fell for all things art. After publishing a few manga, Otomo spent eight years completing Akira , and the manga has gone ...

With 2019 coming to a close, I rewatched one of my favorite movies, a film that takes place in the current year in spite of its release in 1988. The film I am referring to is Katsuhiro Otomo’s classic ...