Akira is Anime at it's best

Rating: 10/10 (31 August 2019)

Akira is arguably one of the greatest Anime movies of all time made in 1988 this movie blew audiences away with its unique animation style a storyline that appealed to a more mature audience with adult themes including intense action scenes with high levels of violence blood and adult language which in 1988 made the movie pretty controversial as it reached a bigger audience and gave people previously uninterested in Japanese style Anime something unique and more appealing to adults.
The movie follows a young biker gang who spend there time in seedy bars stealing bikes and fighting with a rival biker gang the leader of the gang (Kaneda) is a ladies man with a bike so cool everyone looks to as the leader and kind of like a big brother to the gang except for the runt of the litter (Tetsuo) who is jealous of Kanedas bike and how he treats him like a little kid also protecting him when one night there rivals the Clowns start causing trouble on there turf the gang chase them down and after Tetsuo crashes his bike in a strange looking kid who uses his strange powers to destroy the bike and leave Tetsuo hurt and unconscious the gang is surrounded by military police who place them under arrest and take the strange kid and Tetsuo away where they begin to experiment on Tetsuo when they discover that he is linked to Akira an experiment that almost destroyed Old Tokyo years prior.
Akira has been quoted as one of the greatest Anime movies of all time and inspired the creation of movies like Ghost in the Shell and even The Matrix and now 31 years later it still ranks in the top 10 best anime movies ever made and continues to inspire filmmakers to this day.
I recommend Akira to any Anime fan you will definitely appreciate it's beautiful old school animation and story.