You are like the dense main character in a shoujo manga.

And you will murder someone one day, pika. If you're my daughter.

When a young man’s telekinesis is discovered by the military, he is taken in to be turned into a super weapon and his brother must race to save him before Manhattan is destroyed by his powers. Kaneda is a bar owner in Neo-Manhattan who is stunned when his brother Tetsuo is abducted by Government agents lead by the Colonel. Desperate to get his brother back, Kaneda agrees to join Ky Reed and her underground movement who are intent on revealing to the world what truly happened to New York City 30 years ago when it was destroyed. Kaneda believes their theories to be ludicrous, but after facing his brother again is shocked when he displays telekinetic powers. Ky believes Tetsuo is headed to release a young boy. Akira, who has taken control of Tetsuo’s mind, Kaneda clashes with the Colonel’s troops on his way to stop Tetsuo from releasing Akira, but arrives too late. Akira soon emerges from his prison courtesy of Tetsuo as Kaneda races to save his brother before Akira once again destroys Manhattan island as he did thirty years ago.

Leonardo DiCaprio-produced film Akira is set to begin shooting in California, it has been confirmed.

The upcoming Warner Bros. movie – a live-action remake of the 1988 anime classic – received an $18.5 million tax credit from the California Film Commission’s Film & TV Tax Credit Program 2.0 yesterday (April 2). It was amongst 18 fund allocations for film and TV projects, with Akira bagging the largest sum.