Akira

Alright if you're a fan of the Matrix trilogy and Ghost in the Shell then you can't miss this chance online. Courtesy from Google video, an entire length of Akira has been posted online. For those of you who wanted to get in touch with the stable of the Japanese anime, look no further this is a must see movie. Here I'll post you a quick synopsis to prepared you for a this mind blowing dystopia. Neo-Tokyo, Fast Yakuza future bikes, genetic engineering out of control oh my.

Akira (アキラ, Akira) is a 1988 animated movie by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name. The movie led the way for the growing popularity of anime in the West, with Akira considered a forerunner of the second wave of anime fandom that began in the early 1990s. One of the reasons for the movie's success was the highly advanced quality of its animation. At the time, most anime was notorious for cutting production corners with limited motion, such as having only the characters' mouths move while their faces remained static. Akira broke from this trend with meticulously detailed scenes, exactingly lip-synched dialogue (voices were recorded before the animation was completed, rather than the opposite — a first for an anime production) and superfluous motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation cels.^[1

The story takes place in the politically volatile city of Neo-Tokyo, built over Tokyo Bay after an unexplained explosion inciting World War III destroyed the original city in 1988. The cataclysm is revealed to have been caused by the frightening psionic powers of a child, Akira, who had earlier been the subject of a secret government research project for the development of psychokinetic abilities.

So sit back and enjoy this great film on your post mayhem Christmas hangover....