After years of failed attempts, Hollywood is betting big on anime with these 10 live-action productions backed by top-tier ...

Over the past 37 years, one particular visual has influenced hundreds of artists, animators, and filmmakers: Kaneda’s iconic bike slide from the anime movie Akira. Dozens of popular cartoons from ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Many fans have attempted to recreate Kaneda’s bike. Some have done so in cosplay form, using PVC ...

The poster for F1: The Movie is generating buzz. It visually nods to Akira, a classic anime film. This reference bridges Japanese cyberpunk and motorsport cinema. The poster's design works on multiple ...

The 1988 anime Akira motorcycle is probably still the coolest two-wheeled pop culture phenomenon nearly 40 years on. But what if it came to life? Japanese design firm Ichiban has created a sleek, ...

Akira is known as one of the best anime movies of all time. It was one of the first manga series to be successfully translated into English, giving Western audiences an opportunity to experience an ...

Kurosawa’s movie played Out of Competition at Cannes 1991, and the poster visualises a grandmother, a victim of the Nagasaki atomic bombing on August 9 1945, conveying to her grandchildren her faith ...

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the poster for its upcoming 77th edition which pays tribute to Japanese master Akira Kurosawa and his late career feature Rhapsody in August. The image shows a ...

Fans of Katsuhiro Otomo's cult cyberpunk anime Akira can now ride the motorcycle its hero Shōtarō Kaneda rides around the city of Neo-Tokyo. That's because Bel & Bel, a small workshop studio in ...

Since the latter half of 2022, Barcelona-based upcycler and art studio Bel&Bel has been building a hybrid electric replica of an iconic motorcycle featured in a dystopian manga classic. Now a limited ...

A creative studio based in Barcelona, famous for its ability to up-cycle achingly cool retro vehicles and turn them into furniture, has recently taken the wraps off its Akira bike project - a faithful ...