In which the Mister joins me in reviewing AKIRA (1988), currently available on Funimation, Hulu and to buy/rent on Amazon.  From the manga and directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo, with a screenplay credit to Katsuhiro Ôtomo and Izô Hashimoto, the film is set in Neo Tokyo 2019, 31 years after WWIII.  Kaneda (Mitsuo Iwata) and Tetsuo (Nozomu Sasaki) are longtime friends who now are part of a biker gang that inhabits this new world.  An accident finds Tetsuo taken to a secret government facility where Tetsuo’s new developing powers seem to be going out of control and shades of history repeating itself soon surface.  Will Tetsuo destroy Neo Tokyo like Akira did in 1988?  Shout out to Andrew from film discussion group for the recommendation. The film was innovative for its time, introduced Western audiences to anime, has a run time of 2 h and 4m and is rated R.  Please note there are SPOILERS in this review.

Opening intro music: GOAT by Wayne Jones, courtesy of YouTube Audio Library