The Simpsons and Akira Merge Together to Create Bartkira

Back in 2013, James Harvey’s Bartkira Project was a comics event where every participant took five pages from Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira original manga to collectively redraw his entirety work in their own styles with characters from Matt Groening’s  The Simpsons. In association with the comic, Moon Animate Make-Up producer Kaitlin Sullivan pitched the idea of an animated trailer to match, with the work of over fifty artists.

Here’s the trailer for Bartkira:

Here’s the original Akira trailer for comparison:

Here are some character designs that the Bartkira team revealed earlier:

Source: Crunchyroll, Bartkia