Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi is still working on a live-action version of Akira. Both the Akira manga and anime by Katsuhiro Otomo take place in a dysopian version of Tokyo dubbed Neo-Tokyo in 2019, and follow the leader of a teen bike gang trying to save his best friend from the military when his latent telekinetic powers emerge. That description makes the story sounds relatively straightforward, but both the twisting plot of the anime and manga feature political intrigue, social commentary, and teen melodrama.
The Akira anime was a groundbreaking piece of work, and helped anime become popular in the west. Warner ...
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