Director
Katsuhiro Otomo
Staring
Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, and Taro Ishida
Overview
Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
Review
Akira
Whatever happened to dystopian cyberpunk stories? It seems like they all died out with Y2K. Maybe they became real life? Anyway, Akira is a classic even if it is a mind fuck. Also, Kaiori gets sucked into the blobverse, yet no one cares. Sad.
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