Anime Information
Japanese Title: アキラ
English Title: Akira
Type: Movie
Year: 16.07.1988
Categories: Action, Angst, Cyberpunk, Genetic Modification, High School, Horror, Human Enhancement, Manga, Military, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-Fi, Seinen, Super Power, Violence -
AniDB: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=28
Plot Summary:
In the year 2019, thirty-one years after World War III, the authority of Neo-Tokyo is waging a constant battle against Underground rebels. Caught in the middle is a motorcycle gang whose aim is just to make trouble. The gang leader Kaneda Shoutarou gets involved in more ways than one when an experimental psychic child escapes and results in gang member Shima Tetsuo's capture and subsequent experimentation. Tetsuo the "bitter runt" of the pack now has the power of Akira and soon escapes as soon as everyone realises that his power can result in the total destruction of Neo-Tokyo.
