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acquired the rights to a live-action Akira film in 2002, but since then has had difficulty in getting a project started, with it remaining in development hell.

The game had generally positive reviews from Japanese reviewers. It was developed by KAZe and released by Bandai on 21 February 2001, with limited release in Europe the following year. Īkira Psycho Ball is a simulated pinball machine video game, featuring elements from the manga and anime, for the PlayStation 2. In 1994, a British-made action game, simply titled Akira, was released for the Amiga CD32 and is considered one of the console's worst games. Intended for a 1995 release on the Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Game Gear, Sega Genesis, and Sega CD consoles, the game was never completed due to financial issues at THQ. Preview footage was shown at the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show. īlack Pearl Studios, a subsidiary of THQ, obtained permission from Kodansha to develop a game based on the Akira manga in 1993. It received average ratings from Japanese reviewers. Titled simply Akira, the game was a text-based adventure game with the text presented over images from the film, with the player decided what action protagonist Kaneda would take.

Main articles: Akira (video game) and Akira Psycho BallĪ companion video game to the film was developed by TOSE and distributed by Taito Corporation for personal computers, and released in Japan on 24 December 1988. Kaneda, Kei, Shikishima, and the other Espers work together to try to help Tetsuo come to find peace and end his destructive rampage.

As Tetsuo's abilities start to go out of control, the military, led by Colonel Shikishima, take ultimate actions to try to contain him, wanting to prevent the same destruction to Neo-Tokyo as happened before with the test subject Akira in Tokyo years earlier. As Tetsuo struggles with controlling his new abilities, Kaneda, desperate to learn more, joins forces with a resistance group, including Kei, a woman he takes interest in. After a near collision with a childlike Esper, the product of government research to imbue humans with powerful psychokinetic energies, Tetsuo becomes similarly afflicted. A city struggling to prevent crime amid political corruption, the story focuses on Kaneda, the leader of a motorcycle gang, and his friend and fellow member Tetsuo, who is mentally unstable. Akira creator Otomo posing on a replica of the futuristic motorcycle driven by Kaneda in AkiraĪkira takes place in futurist, cyberpunk 'Neo-Tokyo', some decades following the destruction of Tokyo years prior by a massive explosion.

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