Akira

Overview

Akira is a highly acclaimed MOVIE. Produced by the renowned Tokyo Movie Shinsha, this adaptation perfectly blends the Action, Adventure, Horror, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Supernatural genres.

Akira won the Silver Scream Award, the audience award of the Amsterdam-based Imagine Film Festival, in 1992 and was nominated for the American Anime Awards' Best Anime Feature award in 2007.

With a deeply passionate fanbase, it has secured a global AniList score of 79% and attracted over 8,307 favorites worldwide. It currently holds a massive popularity ranking of #217063 globally, making it a must-read/watch for enthusiasts of the medium.

Synopsis

It's the year 2019, thirty-one years have passed since the start of World War III. A top-secret child with amazing powers of the mind breaks free from custody and accidentally gets a motorcycle gang involved in the project. This incident triggers psychic powers within one of the gang members, Tetsuo, and he is taken by the army to be experimented on. His mind has been altered and is now on the path of war, seeking revenge on the society that once called him weak.

(Source: FUNimation)

Official Rankings

• #140
  highest rated all time
• #18
  most popular all time