Akira
The year is 2019 after a devastating and unexplained explosion 20 years ago; Neo Tokyo
is well on the way to rebuilding the city. The story revolves around Kaneda and Tetsuo who are motorcycle-riding
hooligans who are part of a group of misfits whose only joy in life is to ride
motorcycles and fighting with other cycle gangs. While out reeking havoc on
another gangs Tetsuo stumbles across a secret military project whose goals are
to develop children into powerful telekinetic humans. Tetsuo is abducted by the government and his
latent telekinetic powers surface.
Kaneda
joins with an extremist group bent on stopping the government’s tests. When Kaneda and Tetsuo meet up again, he
learns how Tetsuo felt as a child, and Tetsuo tells him that he hated being
pushed around by Kaneda.He tries to
destroy Kaneda, but Tetsuo’s overload of psychic power stops him and Tetsuo
starts to mutate because he cannot control him own power.
Although
what is left of Akira is a jar of organs, he comes back to take Tetsuo’s
powers.Akira saves the world by
destroying Tetsuo.