Akira was one of the four nominees for the 2007 American Anime Awards' "Best Anime Feature" award, but it lost to Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children.

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Director Katsuhiro Otomo was also the creator of the long-running manga series on which the film is based. Akira tells the story of two childhood friends, Kaneda and Tetsuo, as they encounter a sinister government conspiracy in post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo. Tetsuo has an accidental encounter with a genetically engineered child and develops supernatural powers, while Kaneda forms a new relationship with a resistance figure named Kei and joins her in trying to expose the conspiracy. Inevitably, Tetsuo and Kane will end up clashing, with catastrophic results. Otomo’s manga ran from 1982 until 1990 and was unfinished by the time the film went into production. Otomo and his co-writer Izo Hashimoto had to find a way to wrap things up while still leaving it open-ended for fans of the manga. In the United Kingdom, Akira was first released on VHS by Island World Communications in 1991. [69] By 1993, the film had sold 60,000 tapes in the United Kingdom, [69] 100,000 tapes in Europe, [32] and 100,000 tapes in the United States. [61] The success of this release led to the creation of Manga Entertainment, who later assumed distribution. Manga released a two-disc DVD set in 2004, which featured the restored version with the Japanese audio Pioneer dub on the first disc and a VHS transfer with the Streamline dub on the second. Harrison, Richard (December 25, 1989). " 'Akira' (NR)". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015 . Retrieved November 22, 2013. Couch, Aaron (May 24, 2019). "Taika Waititi's 'Akira' Sets 2021 Release Date". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved May 24, 2019.

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