1988 · animation · sci-fi
Akira
Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo2h 4m1988
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
Our read: Akira (1988) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive animation · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, breathless, extreme animation / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
Watching Akira tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Akira feels to watch.
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“You want neon cyberpunk apocalypse where teenage rage reshapes a city.”
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