Released: 1988
IMDB Rating: 8.16/10
At the beginning of the animation, we witness the explosion of a bomb in Tokyo in 1988. This explosion causes the complete destruction of the city and the start of World War III. 31 years later, a new city called Neo-Tokyo is established. This city has numerous social problems such as student riots, political instability, and worst of all, biker gangs. One of the members of these biker gangs is a motorcyclist named Tetsuo. He is arrested by the police one day after a collision with a strange and mysterious teenager. At the police headquarters, scientists discover Tetsuo's telepathic power and decide to use him as a laboratory rat to find the source of the extremely destructive power known as Akira, which also destroyed the original city of Tokyo, but...