Anime (Japanese animation) and Manga (Japanese comics) are both very popular worldwide, and with Hollywood producing a lot of very popular DC and Marvel comics movies, it’s only natural that they would start mining these forms for new material. So here are some of the upcoming Hollywood anime and manga projects like Ghost in the Shell (Steven Spielberg), Battle Angel Alita (James Cameron) , Bleach (Peter Segal and Michael Ewing) and Akira (The Hughes Brothers), and some of the older films that have paved the way for this next generation.

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