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A.D. 2019. A brilliant flash envelops Tokyo. The great Akira saga has just began. Eleven years after world war 3, 2030 A.D. In Neo-Tokyo a band of teenage delinquents led by Kaneda encounter the child Takashi, one of a series of psychic children. Takeshi accidentally injures Kaneda's friend Tetsuo with his telekinetic abilities. 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 bet 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 been labelled as a useless fool, Tetsuo vows to seek vengeance, including Kaneda, all along envious of his been leader in the group. Tetsuo mets some of the other psychic children by chance in the labs, and discovers the ultimate power in Akira.


Jealous of his psychic abiliites been rivalled by Akira, Tetsuo seeks to awaken the kid. The Colonel, terrified of what may spark off another light blast in Akira, seeks Tetsuo along with kaneda and some other members from the resistance.Thus begans the ultimate confrontation with Tetsuo, whose pyschic powers have now reached the peak and nears to invincibility, shrugging off all attacks.


In the ensuing struggle, all seems hopeless as Tetsuo started to lose control of his ever increasing power. Neo Tokyo's last hope - Akira !

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