Coming back to Akira after all these years ... secret state programme to contain and control that ancient power, he comes to embody it. Tetsuo transforms into a monster; first metaphorically, and in ...

An artist's rendition of the galaxies Akira (right) and Tetsuo (left) in action. Akira's gravity pulls Tetsuo's gas into its central supermassive black hole, fueling winds that have the power to ...

The story is, in part, an allegory for the fallout from the nuclear bombs dropped by the United States during World War II — where Akira represents the bomb and Tetsuo is the dreaded next calamity.

Akira’s monstrous character Tetsuo is a youngster who finds horrific forces mutating his body. Peter Parker shoots out embarrassing strands of web-goo, but Tetsuo’s whole body engorges into a ...

Soon, Tetsuo ignites a chain of events that threatens to destroy Neo-Tokyo once again. To definitively signal to audiences that Akira’s Neo-Tokyo is an unprecedented, futuristic interpretation ...

The Akira manga is an e­nthralling Japanese cyberpunk ... In his despe­rate pursuit to prove himself e­qual to Kaneda, Tetsuo unknowingly performs a daring act. This act se­ts off a chain ...

There are few anime films like Akira. Not only was it an adaptation ... unwittingly unleashed by unethical scientific research. Tetsuo’s childhood friend and erstwhile rival, Kaneda, fights ...