Review of Akira (1988) by Anthony D — 06 May 2012

Tetsuo and Kaneda are two biker punks in a post-apocalyptic sprawl of Tokyo. On a fateful day they encounter a small child with frightening mental powers. This meeting unleashes Tetsuo's latent psychic abilities and his perception expands to a level that human sanity cannot comprehend.

Kaneda's mission to make sense of it all is rendered with animation whose quality hasn't been seen since the days of Fantasia. A landmark in the history of film, Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira is a sublime mindbender with unprecedented impact and style.