Akira: The Manga ANIME SYPNOSIS
" CALL HIM AKIRA, A LIVING BATON, PASSED MADLY FROM HAND TO HAND IN A BID TO CONTROL THE FORCE WITHIN HIM. CALL HIM VICTIM; DROWSILY CAUGHT IN THE INTRIGUES OF POWER IN THE 21ST CENTURY , ABOUT TO BE AWAKENED BY A FLASH FROM THE DARKNESS. CALL HIM DEATH, AS A SINGLE GUNSHOT UNLEASHES A TORRENT OF SLAUGTHER FELT AROUND THE WORLD. THEN, CALL HIM MASTER. "
On July 16, 1988, a explosion destroys Tokyo. During the next 35 years, Neo-Tokyo is constructed around the crater that was once Tokyo.
Kaneda and his friends, a bunch of juvenile delinquents, battle with a rival group of bikers called Clowns. Meanwhile, a man leading a blue-prune-faced child attempt to run from someone. While fleeing, the man is shot by riot police and the child, (named Takashi), horrifed by seeing all the blood screams and shatters the buildings around him. The child escapes in the confusion while Kei and Ryu, the dead man's friends, watch in amazement. A man called the Colonel sets out with Masaru, another of these strange children, to find Takashi. While rioting crowds are subdued by the police with tear gas, Kaneda's rumble continues. Tetsuo pursues after a couple of clowns and takes one out but runs into Takashi. Tetsuo's bike suddenly explodes. First Kaneda and his gang arrive, then the army arrive with the Colonel. Takashi tries to run but Masaru stops him and Tetsuo are taken while the rest of the bikers are arrested. While Kaneda and his friends are being processed, he notices Kei's picture in a book of wanted criminals (Wow! Not Bad). After his interigation, Kaneda spots Kei, who has yet to be processed, in the hallway. He manages to convince the officer to let him take her with him. Kaneda is beginnning to introduce himself when Kei spots Ryu, who has also been arrested. She eludes Kaneda so she can help her friend escape. While analyzing him, the army doctors discover that Tetsuo's mind is psychically active. The Doctor tells the Colonel that Tetsuo might be helpful in understanding the mystery of Akira. The Colonel is uneasy but the doctor assures him that it will be handled properlly. After being disciplined by the gym teacher (Uh, Ya lost me Coach), Kaneda and his friends are joined by their girlfriends. Kaori asks where Tetsuo is, but Kaneda can only tell her that the army took him. Later that night, Tetsuo escapes and meets Kaori. The next day, they steal Kaneda's bike and go for a ride. They are spotted by a rival gang and pursued. Tetsuo and Kaori are caught but, Kaneda and his friends show up before anything happens. They capture one of the bikers, and Tetsuo beats the crap out of him. Kaneda tries to stop Tetsuo before he kills the guy. Tetsuo whirls on him and demands to know why Kaneda didn't help him escape from the hospital. Suddenly, Tetsuo suffers from a strange fit. The army shows up and carries him off again. Later Kaneda sees Ryu and Kei after they have performed an act of terrorism. He follows and helps Kei elude her army pursuers. While Tetsuo suffers nightmares in the hospital, yet another one of these strange children meets the Colonel. The girl, Kyoko, says she had a dream in which she forsaw that Akira will visit them again. This prompts the general to pay a visit to Akira, who is frozen at 0.0005 degrees Kelvin. Kaneda follows Kei back to her hideout. Kaneda is still going through his "come-on" lines. Ryu arrives and locks Kaneda up, believing him to be an army spy. They go into one of the other rooms where Ryu receives forged ID cards which will allow them to pass the hospital security. They are planning to break into the hospital and kidnap another of the children. Meanwhile, Kaneda is caught while listening and Ryu accuses him of spying on their meeting. Ryu meets with his boss, who is a member of the ruling council. While they discuss the planned attack, they observe a group of young people involved in a religious ceremony worshipping Akira. Later, at the council meeting, the Colonel meets with the other members. They are a bunch of petty politicians. They tell the Colonel that he is spending too much money. They have funded the Akira Project for four years and there have been no Results. The Colonel tells them that he is already at his minimum expenditure and warns of the dire consequences if they cut any further. The council ignores him, and he storms out. While Kaneda, Kei, and her group infitrate the hospital, Tetsuo's head begins throbbing again. He is assaulted by a series of illusions created by the Children for the purpose of heightening his emotional distress and thereby bringing forth his psychic powers. Tetsuo cuts his foot and the gruesomeness of the scene breaks the children's concentration. Tetsuo, now really pissed, wants to find the Children. Suddenly, he knows how to find them. While Tetsuo makes his way to Room A, Kei and her friends are attacked in the sewers. Kaneda takes one of the hover crafts and with Kei, hearing a voice, Kyoko, set off the find the children. Tetsuo battles his way to Room A. Takashi and Masaru engage Tetsuo in an indecisive psychic combat when the Colonel appears. Tetsuo's head begins pounding again, and the doctor tells him that if he would just cooperate, they could fix it. Tetsuo doesn't believe him. Kyoko tells Tetsuo that there is one with more power, Akira, but he found peace at last. Tetsuo demands to know where Akira is, and begins tearing the place apart to find him. Kaneda arrives and tells Tetsuo that he's come to rescue him (Tetsuo, I'm here to help). Tetsuo, resentful of Kaneda's usual bad treatment, laughs at him. He tells Kaneda that the only help that he might need his help. He then confronts Kyoko and pulls Akira's location, under the Olympic Stadium, from her mind. He then teleports himself out of the hospital. The Colonel sets out to deal with the menace when he is confronted by a government agent. He informs the Colonel that the council had decided to strip him of command hand have him arrested. The Colonel resists and realizes he will have to subdue the government so that he can deal with the crisis. Tetsuo finds his way back to the usual hangout and tells the bartender he wants some drugs, Capsules in the place. He then kills the bartender since he has no money to pay for the drugs. Yama and Kai arrive at the bar. They find the place a mess and the bartender dead and Tetsuo laughing. The drugs have had almost no effect on him. Yama asks where Kaneda is and Tetsuo's says he might be dead by now. Yama approaches Tetsuo but is thrown back by debris he knocked over. Now in a jail cell, Kei tries to explain to Kaneda what little she knows of Akira and his awesome power. Kyoko unlocks the cell dorr and the pair escape. Kaneda bumps into his Kai, who tells him what Tetsuo has done. Kaneda takes Yama's bike and smashes it. Takashi shows up and kidnaps Kei. Kyoko warns Kaneda that the consequences will be dire if Tetsuo isn't stopped. Meanwhile, Ryu's boss is trying to make his escape before the army can find him. Ryu shows up and the panic-crazed councilman guns him down. Tetsuo makes his way to the stadium, demolishing everything in its path. The doctor, who monitors Tetsuo's psychich output, realizes that Tetsuo has become avery unstable with his power. Tetsuo arrives at Akira's cryogenic chamber. He is confronted by Kei, who is being controlled by the three Children. She tells him that the power they have must never be used, or a catastrophe will result. Tetsuo isn't buying it, so they fight. Tetsuo prevails, only to discover that all that remains of Akira are some containers filled with a print of his nervous system. After much fighting with Kaneda and a killer satellite, Tetsuo sets himself up with the containers in the Olympic Stadium. Kaori enters looking for Tetsuo. She finds him writhing in pain. As Tetsuo begins to loose control of his new arm, the Colonel arrives. He tells Tetsuo that his only hope for freedom from the intense pain is to return to the hospital. Tetsuo refuses and attacks first the Colonel, then Kaneda when he arrives. The three Children appear and kneel before the remains of Akira, beseeching his help. Meanwhile, Tetsuo loses control of his power completely. The bottles containing Akira burst open and Akira regenerates himself. His full power bursts forth, recreating the phenomenon that demolished Tokyo 38 years ago, giving Tetsuo the only peace he can ever know. Kyoko teleports the Colonel to safety, but Kaneda is caught in the explosion. The Children sacrifice themselves to save him. Inside the explosion, Kaneda experiences several flashes of Tetsuo's life: Riding down the highway in Kaneda's wake, the strange experiment that gave four ordinary children psychic ablities, and the first time he met Kaneda. Kaneda finds himself on a mound of rubble and rides off with his friends. Masaru realizes that this is not an end, but a beginning. In a place that is no place, a voice is heard:
I am Tetsuo.
-- Akira Movie Summary Originally by Matthew Zell for the 1989 Capricorn Anime Guide. -- Modified by Kiyones 1999
A.D. 2019. A brilliant flash envelops Tokyo. Thought to be a nuclear explosion, the world falls in chaos and World War 3 begins.
The great saga of Akira has just began.
Eleven years after world war 3, 2030 A.D. In Neo-Tokyo the Olympics are expected to take place in Neo-Tokyo the following year. The motorcycle gang of "healthy, juvenile delinquents" race through the city led by Kaneda. An unusual looking boy, Takashi, suddenly appears in front of them and Tetsuo, Kaneda's best friend, is hurt by the boy's paranormal/psychic powers. As a result, Tetsuo is institutionalized in a military hospital. During his hospitalization, the military Colonel and doctor discover Tetsuo's own hidden power and transfer him into the laboratory to perform power awakening experiments.
Meanwhile, Kaneda is involved in an anarchist riot and inadvertently saves Kay, a female rebel. As a result, he finds out that the resistance target is the secret experimental laboratory where Tetsuo is being held captive.
As a result Kaneda and Tetsuo become entangled in a power struggle between a mysterious military and scientific organization led by the Colonel and an underground resistance group bent on putting a stop to the Colonel's activities. The Colonel controls the psychic children, whose ranks include Akira, a mental giant so powerful his light blast (a mini supernova explosion) destroyed Tokyo in 2019 A.D, and eventually led to world war three. Since the war, he has been buried beneath the earth's surface, suspended in crogenic sleep. Meanwhile, painful experiments on the injured Tetsuo awaken enormous pyschic abilities in him, along with a murderous streak. Once pushed around by his gang members and labelled as a useless fool. Tetsuo vows to seek vengeance, especially with Kaneda (the leader of the bike gang) his long time friend. Tetsuo mets some of the other psychic children by chance in the labs, and discovers the ultimate power in Akira. Jealous that his psychic abiliites are rivalled by Akira, Tetsuo seeks to awaken the him, in hope that he may be able to surpass Akira's powers. The Colonel, terrified of what may result from another light blast by Akira, seeks to hunt down Tetsuo along with kaneda and some the members from the underground resistance. Thus begans the ultimate confrontation with Tetsuo, whose pyschic powers have now reached the peak and nears to invincibility. Yet, he is losing control of his powers and they threaten to overwhelm him. In the ensuing struggle, all seems hopeless as Tetsuo starts to lose control of his ever increasing power, and the possibilty of yet another, even greater, light blast becomes frightenly apparent.
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