Akira

Neo-Tokyo, 2019. Decades after a mysterious explosion helped trigger World War III, biker gang leader Shoutarou Kaneda and his volatile childhood friend Tetsuo Shima race through a city shaken by riots, military control, and anti-government unrest. Their lives change when Tetsuo collides with a strange child possessing psychic powers and is taken away by the military.

Experiments awaken terrifying abilities inside Tetsuo, magnifying his resentment and hunger for power until even his closest friends cannot reach him. Kaneda becomes entangled with a resistance movement and a secret government project centered on the legendary “Akira,” while Tetsuo’s rapidly expanding power threatens to unleash another catastrophe upon Neo-Tokyo.