Akira

About Akira

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.

Akira (1988) is an animation science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. The film is filed under vibrant, experiment, cyberpunk, and army.

Mitsuo Iwata takes the lead as Shotaro Kaneda (voice), Nozomu Sasaki as Tetsuo Shima (voice), Mami Koyama as Kei (voice), and Taro Ishida as Colonel Shikishima. At 124 minutes long, it arrived in July 1988.

The screenplay is by Izo Hashimoto and Katsuhiro Otomo. Production companies include Kodansha, MBS, and TOHO. The story is adapted from a manga. It streams on Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll Amazon Channel in the United States.

Ghost in the Shell, Dune, and The Animatrix make useful companions to Akira, all filed under adult animation and based on manga. TMDB voters put it at 7.9 out of 10 across 5,096 votes and it carries a R rating.