1/5/2023 0 Comments Anime soundtrack![]() With themes of political corruption, widespread public unrest, and a Tokyo Olympics Organizing Committee determined to go ahead in dubiously safe circumstances, Otomo's vision of 2019-the year in which the story takes place-clearly resonates with audiences today. ![]() And yet, a 4K remaster of the 1988 anime movie last month returned to cinemas across the U.S. As end-times narratives go, Akira's is a little more dramatic than the dreary slide into reactionary politics, social isolation and pandemic mismanagement that has characterized our experiences in the Western world in recent times.įirst created in its manga form by Katsuhiro Otomo in 1982, this story of a post-apocalyptic neo-Tokyo, rebuilt in the wake of a third world war that began due to the destruction of the city by a child called Akira with superpowers beyond comprehension and control, perhaps could have sprung only from the national consciousness of a country that, 37 years earlier, had experienced the full power of the atom bomb, twice in a matter of days.
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