Akira
A shining example of 80’s body horror and cyberpunk anime, Akira has no qualms about putting sex, drugs, and violence on full display. Set in a dystopian future Tokyo, citizens live under martial law after a cataclysmic event wiped the city away 20 years prior. Gangs and criminals run amok, while governments carry out their agendas undeterred. That all changes when a psychic test subject, freed by anti-government terrorists, meets a motorcycle gang member named Akira, injuring him with his powers and inadvertently awakening his own terrifying potential.
Between casual sex and drug use, brutal detailed violence, and body horror scenes that would put an acid trip to shame, this film is a standout as one of, if not the, best of anime’s adult-aimed offerings. Add in the fact that it has one of the most iconic art styles around, and you won’t be disappointed by this bloody good film.
