For many people here the biggest draw is the Akira manga itself ... nearly invisible guy-wires, creating the illusion that they're floating in space (or perhaps that Tetsuo's holding them in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Akira is the story of psychic teenager Tetsuo doing battle with former friend Kaneda in the futuristic city of Neo-Tokyo. Watch a trailer here (p.s., the soundtrack is pretty amazing too).