If you happen to missed the 4K remaster of Akira in theaters when it debuted in 2020, you might have a second shot this summer time. Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark anime film will return to theaters — for sooner or later solely — in 4K and IMAX format in September.
Akira might be rereleased in 4K and IMAX in the US and Canada on Sept. 4, distributed by Crunchyroll and Sony Footage Leisure. The showings of Otomo’s cyberpunk traditional might be introduced each within the authentic Japanese with English subtitles and in an English dub.
Akira is a must-watch anime traditional
Initially launched in 1988, Akira tells the story of Tokyo within the distant way forward for 2019, 31 years after the destruction of the metropolis. The animated epic, based mostly on Otomo’s manga of the identical identify, focuses on Kaneda, the chief of a biker gang whose childhood good friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires highly effective telekinetic talents after a near-fatal accident.
If you happen to’ve by no means seen Akira, this is how Crunchyroll describes the movie:
Because the chief of a gaggle of younger sturdy delinquents, Kaneda spent his nights tearing by the city wastes, racing his motorcycle towards rival teams. One evening whereas using along with his gang, his good friend Tetsuo all of the sudden encounters an odd boy― the product of human experimentation— and is injured within the ensuing crash. Shortly thereafter, a navy squadron seems on the scene to take the boy and Tetsuo away to a military analysis facility. Decided to free Tetsuo from seize, Kaneda sneaks into the military analysis lab. Nonetheless, a routine of utmost experimental procedures has woke up a brand new energy in his good friend, and now he’s consumed by insanity…
Tickets for the Akira launch can be found from the IMAX web site and Fandango.
Now, about that Akira TV sequence… (The place the heck is it?)