Akira Mystery Cache
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ANIME:
AKIRA (????) is a 1988 Japanese animated action film written and
directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his hit manga. The film is set
in a futuristic and post-war city, Neo-Tokyo, in 2019. While most
of the character designs and basic settings were adapted from the
original 2182-page manga epic, the restructured plot of the movie
differs considerably from the print version, pruning much of the
last half of the manga. The film became a hugely popular cult film
and is widely considered to be a landmark in Japanese animation and
film.On July 16, 1988, Tokyo is destroyed by an apparent nuclear
explosion, leading to the start of World War III. Thirty-one years
after Tokyo's destruction, Neo-Tokyo, a new megalopolis built on an
artificial island in Tokyo Bay, is gripped by political strife,
anti-government terrorism, and gang violence. Shotaro Kaneda leads
his bosozoku gang, the Capsules, which find themselves in a gang
war with another group called the Clowns. As Kaneda and his best
friend, Tetsuo, battle a pair of Clowns on a highway, the latter
almost runs into a child with wizened features and is injured when
his bike suddenly explodes. Tetsuo and the child, Takashi, are
captured by armed soldiers. Kaneda and his gang are taken in for
questioning, where Kaneda unsuccessfully flirts with a young woman
named Kei, a member of the terrorist Resistance. Kaneda, Kei, and
the remaining Capsules are later released. Colonel Shikishima and
Doctor Onishi, two members of a secret government project, discover
that Tetsuo possesses mental frequencies similar to Akira, a little
boy with essentially god-like mental abilities who destroyed Tokyo
decades before. Because Kiyoko, another one of supernatural
children called the Espers, has had visions of a similar
destruction of Neo-Tokyo, the Colonel orders the Doctor to kill
Tetsuo should his power escalate beyond their control. Tetsuo
escapes, meeting up with his girlfriend, Kaori, and stealing
Kaneda's motorcycle. As they attempt to leave the city, they are
attacked by Clowns, whom Kaneda and the gang defeat upon their
arrival. As Kaneda helps the couple recover, Tetsuo begins to
suffer a painful headache. On the Doctor's orders, a government van
arrives and takes Tetsuo away. That night, Kaneda sees Kei at the
scene of a terrorist attack, helps her avoid arrest, and
accompanies her to the Resistance headquarters. Kaneda offers to
help after the terrorists unintentionally reveal their plan to
infiltrate a high-security hospital to rescue Tetsuo. That night,
the Espers – Takashi, Kiyoko and Masaru – attempt to
kill Tetsuo before he grows accustomed to his new powers. This
attempt on his life, however, only makes Tetsuo more powerful. He
goes on a violent rampage through the hospital to the Espers'
hospital room, where he learns that Akira is now in cryogenic
storage below Neo-Tokyo's new Olympic Stadium. The Colonel, Kei,
and Kaneda, arrive too late at the Espers' room, learning that
Tetsuo is heading for the Stadium to meet Akira in the hopes he can
give Tetsuo more information about his powers. Kei and Kaneda are
detained, but Kiyoko – speaking through Kei as a medium
– explains that Tetsuo must be stopped and helps them escape.
Meanwhile, Tetsuo encounters Yamagata, Kaneda's right-hand man, and
kills him. Another capsule named Kai is also there to witness
Yamagata's death but is spared. Tetsuo travels to the Stadium,
brutally dispatching soldiers who attack him. Arriving at the
Stadium, Tetsuo battles and defeats Kei, who is voluntarily being
used by the Espers. Tetsuo finally unearths Akira's cryogenic
chamber, only to discover Akira's organs, stored inside glass jars.
The Colonel – who by now has taken over Neo-Tokyo and
declared martial law – tells Tetsuo that Akira's remains had
been meticulously analyzed after Tokyo's destruction and that he's
been dead the entire time. Kaneda, having learned of Yamagata's
death from Kai, uses Tetsuo's moment of confusion to fire on him
with a laser rifle, but Tetsuo is able to block almost all the
attacks but the initial one which manages to cut his arm badly.
While Tetsuo is distracted by Kaneda, the Colonel tries to destroy
Tetsuo using an orbital laser weapon but manages only to sever his
right arm. Tetsuo takes off into orbit and destroys the weapon,
then spends the night recovering at the Stadium, psychically
forging himself a new arm from inorganic material while studying
Akira's organs. His girlfriend Kaori arrives and tries to calm him
down as his powers create immense physical pain. The Colonel pleads
with Tetsuo to return to the lab, but Tetsuo attacks the Colonel.
When the Colonel fires back, with Kaneda (protected by the Espers)
joining the fight, Tetsuo is unable to keep control any longer, and
his body begins to transform into a gigantic cyborg-like monster
that crushes and kills Kaori. The Espers, watching from afar,
realize the only way to stop Tetsuo is to call forth Akira, his
life force contained in the body parts in the glass jars. Akira's
manifestation causes another explosion, and the Espers teleport the
Colonel to safety. In spite of Kiyoko and Masaru's insistence that
trying to save Kaneda alone would be futile, Takashi jumps into the
ever-expanding psychic field. Kiyoko and Masaru agree to join
Takashi, aware they likely will not be able to return, and help
save Kaneda. Kaneda experiences Tetsuo's and the Espers' memories,
including how much Tetsuo trusted Kaneda as a friend and how the
children obtained their powers. The Espers remove Kaneda from the
field and tell him that Akira will be taking Tetsuo "away" and to
find somewhere safe to ride out the explosion. The explosion
engulfs much of Neo-Tokyo, and when it shrinks and, finally,
vanishes, leaves a void that is quickly filled by the nearby ocean.
Doctor Onishi is caught in the implosion this causes, crushing his
van and killing him. Kaneda wakes up to find that Kei and Kai are
safe, and they drive away from the ruined stadium into the city.
The Colonel walks out of the tunnel The Espers teleported him to
and watches the sun rising over the destroyed city. The credits
begin with a Big Bang with Tetsuo saying, "I am Tetsuo."
MANGA:
AKIRA (????) is a black and white serial manga or graphic novel by
Katsuhiro Otomo.The manga takes place in a vastly larger timeframe
than the film and involves a far wider array of characters and
subplots. Through the breadth of the work, Otomo explicates themes
of social isolation, corruption and power. AKIRA is set primarily
in 2030 Neo-Tokyo, after the destruction of Tokyo on December 6,
1992 (later revealed to be caused by AKIRA), and the subsequent
start of World War III. However, the narrative occasionally
explores other areas of the world of the manga.
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