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Anime Expo: 4K Akira Remaster + UHD Blu-Ray (JP: Apr. 2020); new manga-based Akira TV series

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Oct 27, 2017
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Announced yesterday evening at Otomo's panel at Anime Expo, Akira will be reborn across two different initiatives: first, an ultra-HD remastering of the original movie, which is set to release on blu-ray in Japan on April 24, 2020, with a western release coming at a later date
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Otomo also announced that work has begun on a new anime "project" at Sunrise based on the original manga. According to Anime News Network, it'll be a TV series rather than a new movie, and the project is deliberately not a sequel to Akira, but instead a continued re-adaptation of the manga it was based on. The adaptation hopes to encompass the entirety of Otomo's original manga—something the movie couldn't do
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Guess I'm quadruple-dipping.
 
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Oct 25, 2017
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100% in for the 4K remaster. By then I should be comfortably in OLED land.
 
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