It is simple...iain62a said:
Get drunk and watch it... it will make a hell of alot more sense...
But here's the gist:
The government have made a bunch of children psychic, the strongest was called Akira, but he nearly blew up the world, so they killed him and dismembered him, because he was so powerful he might put himself back together if not properly contained, and finish what he started.
There is a religious movement/freedom fighters that believe Akira to be something along the lines of the Messiah and want him to be set free, not knowing he's dead.
The psychic children because of the drugs they are kept on and the mental and physical manipulation they went through are still children a decade or few or something later, that's why they look and sound damn creepy.
Akira isn't really really dead, he just doesn't have a body, and his psychic form has started trying to hold Tetsuo Shima for a host body, but it's not really Akira as such, more a psychic echo of him, but you don't get this til the end.
Tetsuo becomes more and more powerful, but cannot controle it so becomes insane and murderous.
In the meantime his best friend, Shotaro Kaneda, is off poncing about with some bint, Kei, from the religious movement/freedom fighters, cos he think her hot... Tool!
It all culminates in a big fight between Shotaro and Tetsuo, where Tetsuo is completely mind-f***ed then turns into a giant mutant baby because his body can no longer contain the psychic forces within him.
Tetsuo's girlfriend, Kaori, is there and as he's mutating he tries to get her to help him, as if she fecking could, and squishes her in his giant rolls of fat.
Tetsuo tries to do the same with Shotaro, but Shotaro uses his laser gun, which he knicked off the army, to cut his way out of Tetsuo's fat rolls.
The pain causes Tetsuo to unlock Akira from his psychic echo and Akira sorts everything out, rather than destroying the planet, but he does make a BIG-BADDA-BOOM!!!
And they all lived post-post apocolyptically after... the end...
Oh and Shotaro is the leader of a small bike gang at a really crappy school for youth offenders that Tetsuo is the laughing stock of, both the school and the bike gang, but Shotaro has always looked after him ever since they were both kids... "Bestest buds for life, until you kill the rest of the bike gang, and then try to kill me, and then everyone else in existance, capeesh?!."
DOES EVERYONE UNDERSTAND IT NOW???!!!...
IT IS HONESTLY AS EASY AS THAT...
WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THIS...
The basic premise of probably 80% of all anime is normal or special people of some description get tangled up in something bigger than they can handle then... oh look... they handled it pretty damn fine... but it was really fun to watch... the end...
Night night all...
