Iconic & game-changing Akira is the definitive anime masterpiece! Katsuhiro Otomo s landmark cyberpunk classic obliterated the boundaries of Japanese animation & forced the world to look into the future Akira s arrival shattered traditional thinking creating space for movies like The Matrix to be dreamed into brutal reality Neo-Tokyo 2019 The city is being rebuilt post World War III when two high school drop outs Kaneda & Tetsuo stumble across a secret government project to develop a new weapon
- telekinetic humans After Tetsuo is captured by the military & experimented on he gains psychic abilities & learns about the existence of the project&s most powerful subject Akira Both dangerous & destructive Kaneda must take it upon himself to stop both Tetsuo & Akira before things get out of control & the city is destroyed once again Special Features Akira Sound Clip (1988) Music for Akira Director Interview (subtitled) Storyboard Collection The Writing on the Wall Original Trailers (subtitled) Original Commercials (subtitled) Restoring Akira Glossary US 2013 Trailer Trailers This new version of AKIRA Blu-ray features both the original 1988 Streamline English dub & the 2001 Pioneer Animaze English dub as well as the original Japanese dub (with English subtitles)