Doraemon goes head-to-head with Akira at the 2020 Neo-Tokyo Olympic Games Despite being over 30 years old, Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga masterpiece, Akira, still dominates mainstream media today. Talks of a (personally unwelcome) live action film are still underway – and only this month its legendary soundtrack by musical collective Geinoh Yamashirogumi was given a vinyl release and instantly sold out on Bleep.com Now, with the announcement that Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympic Games, it seems that Akira has written itself […]

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