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The Story:
In the year 2019, a giant explosion destroys Tokyo...all the
world's main cities are destoyed in this war called World War III...this is just the begining...
Thirty years later; after WWIII, it's the year 2030. Tokyo is
rebuilt, now is called Neo-Tokyo.
Childhood friends Kaneda and Tetsuo's motorcycle gang encounters a military operation to retrieve an escaped
experimantal subject. The military captures Tesuo and conducts experiments on him that unleash his dormant psychic ability,
but when these new powers rage out of control, Tetsuo lashes out at the world that has oppresses him!
The only one who can stop him is AKIRA, the boy that destroyed Tokyo during 30 years ago!
The movie is based on the manga by Kasuhiro Otomo
who also directed the movie. Otomo tried to put the whole manga story into the anime that's why some people who haven't read
the manga get confused with it. Well, I must had been hard to more than 2000 pages of complex story in a 124 minute-long movie.
I give ya a tip: Watch the movie more than once, this way you'll understand more and
a third time you watch it......you'll be the master at knowing the story line. :)
AKIRA: The Anime & The Manga:
The movie almost has the same story
as the manga but has many differences. For example: Lady Miyako is not a main charactes, she's
just some religious believer. Yamagata is killed by the hands of Tetsuo... ok, in
the manga too, but in the anime he is killed in the Haruki-ya bar and in the manga he is killed
in a warehouse along with many other bikers.
 Akira's Creator:
Katsuhiro
otomo is Akira's creator. Otomo was born in Miyagi near Tokyo, in 1954. In
1973, he moved to the Japanese capitol, Tokyo, where he immediately
began his talent, to draw comics.
He has been
drawing only Sci-Fi comics since 1979. In 1984, he won as the first Manga/Comicdraughtsman and the Literacy Award "Large Scienfiction Price" Young
Magazine" began printing Otomo's Masterpiece, Akira in December. It took Otomo 10 years
to create 2,000 pages of Akira. In 1988, AKIRA came out into the theaters
as an animated movie (the movie was a hit as the manga). In 2001, AKIRA,
the movie, was digitally treated and remastered (by Pioneer) for a much clearer and sharper image and
sound.
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