Akira

The New York Comic-Con weekend brought with it a bunch of manga announcements, including a big new slate from Kodansha USA. The publisher revealed new print licenses for fall 2025, as well as some new digital titles and upcoming box sets. The big fall 2025 box sets include the first collection of Kamome Shirahama's Witch Hat Atelier and a new hardcover collection of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira.

This week on The Anime Effect: To celebrate 10 years of The Book of Life, filmmaker Jorge R. Gutierrez joins the show to talk about his love for anime, including how Spirited Away inspired his celebrated film and the surprising place he first watched AKIRA.Plus, the latest news on One Piece, SK8 the Infinity and much, much more, including recommendations from our resident anime experts!Episode 36 of The Anime Effect is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else you listen to your podcasts! If you're waiting to watch the video episode, it'll be live on Crunchyroll and YouTube at 7 p.m.

Visitors to last year's exhibition of cels from the legendary 1988 anime film Akira got a special treat: a soundtrack of remixed music from the film accompanied their browsing. There was just one problem: you could only hear these remixes at the exhibition, an