Akira
Akira streams on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video, and it's free with ads on Tubi — so this one's easy to find on whatever service you already have. It's the film that broke anime into the Western mainstream, and its hand-drawn Neo-Tokyo still looks and moves like nothing made since.
About
In a sprawling, unstable megacity rebuilt after a catastrophe, a teenage biker named Kaneda watches his best friend Tetsuo get swept into a secret government program and begin manifesting terrifying psychic power. As Tetsuo's abilities spiral past anyone's control, an old friendship curdles into a confrontation that threatens to level the city all over again. It's a story about power, resentment, and a generation left to rot in the ruins their elders made.
Information
- Japanese
- AKIRA
- Premiered
- July 16, 1988
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 125 min per ep.
- Status
- Finished Airing
- Studio
- tms entertainment co., ltd., tokyo movie shinsha
- Source
- Manga
- Themes
- angst, drama, japanese production, speculative fiction, sci-fi, science fiction
FAQ
It's available on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video, and streams free with ads on Tubi.
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