Akira 1988 2019 31 years after being destroyed during World War 3, Tokyo now Neo Tokyo has been rebuilt and is a thriving metropolis Shotaro Kaneda is the leader of a biker gang His friend Tetsuo is injured in an accident and taken to a top secret government facility He develops telekinetic powers but decides to use them for evil rather than good He has the same powers as Akira, the force that destroyed Tokyo in 1988, and now it appears that history will repeat itself