Akira's influence extends far beyond the Bike Slide, with its poster emulated plenty of times including for Brad Pitt's ...

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 ...

And like Akira, Tetsuo ultimately loses himself to the technological revolution, using inorganic material to create a new, devastating body that ultimately grows to terrifying sizes in the film ...

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 ...

and West is shown lying inside of it as if he were Tetsuo. Later, a motorcyle sequence is housed in the video, and its distinctive taillight trails look exactly like those shown in Akira.

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 ...