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Review for Akira
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In August of 1988, World War III begins when a nuclear exposion occurs in Tokyo. By 2019, Neo-Tokyo is built, but is unfortunately there are antigovernment protest, terrorist, and an ongoing motorcyle war betweeen a gang called the clowns and a gang which is led by a teen named Kaneda. While one of the battles occurs, there is an incident where a seemingly kidnapped boy's kidnapper is killed by the police, and the boys yell of panic destroys a lot of the building's windows and signs in the area. Later, a member of Kaneda's gang and Kaneda's best friend,Tetsuo, is involved in a motorcycle accident with the boy. By the time his fellow bikers arrive, army helecopters come and take the boy and Tetsuo. Tetsuo escapes from the hospital he was in, seemingly more angered and more powerful, but seems to have no control over his state. After he is again taken by the army, Kaneda's need to find out about his friend, so he joins a terrorist group that is out to stop a project called Akira from occuring or possibly occuring again since that may have been the actual cause of the nuclear holocaust. Also because he is after a girl, Kei, who is part of the group.
In the hospital, Tetsuo is becoming more confused, but after a battle with other seemingly child patients of the hospitol, including the boy he crashed into, he sees how much power he truly has, and now he wants more. He is told that there is only one other with a greater power and that is Akira, and he now goes on a mission to defeat Akira at all cost and to destroy anyone who has wronged him which includes Kaneda. After Kei is taken by the children to help fight Tetsuo, Kaneda takes it upon himself to defeat his new enemy.
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