Anime Akira

The anime while more famous than its source material only covers about 40 of the manga s story and relegates some major supporting characters like nezu and lady miyako to tiny background roles.

Anime akira. A secret military project endangers neo tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by two teenagers and a group of psychics. In addition both kaori and akira are handled very differently in part because the movie compressed so much of what happens in the manga. Akira was the first anime film to use pre scoring and to have fully detailed japanese lip sync. Akira s final budget was 10 million 1 1 billion making it the most expensive japanese animated film before studio ghibli s spirited away released in 2001.

Akira was created in 24 fps is mostly animated on 1s and totals 160 000 animation cels. A live action feature film has also been in development since 2000 and a new anime television series by otomo that will adapt the original manga more faithfully has also been announced. The film was a huge success even outside its native japan and is often heralded as one of the all time greatest anime ever produced. With mitsuo iwata nozomu sasaki mami koyama tesshô genda.