While anime like Dororo or Naoki Urasawas Pluto updated Tezukas work with more realistic or otherwise modern designs, Metropolis retains Tezukas signature art style, and not only does it work with ...

(THE CONVERSATION) At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film “Akira,” a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, ...