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 ...

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 ...

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 remains one of the most celebrated feats ... by many anti-social elements while trying to help his friend Tetsuo, a teenage boy who is exposed to a mysterious energy source and develops ...

My earliest memory of Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime classic ... it will be interesting to see how the mutant children and Tetsuo develop differently: they get a little bit of short ...