{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"AKIRA (1988) \u2013 Episode 220 \u2013 Decades Of Horror 1980s","description":"\u201cTetsuo is our friend. If anyone is going to kill him, it should be us.\u201d That\u2019s what friends are for, right? Join your faithful Grue-Crew \u2013 Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Crystal Cleveland, and Jeff Mohr  \u2013 as they take on the Decades of Horror universe\u2019s first anime in Katsuhiro \u00d4tomo\u2019s Akira (1988). Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 220 \u2013 Akira (1988) Join the Crew on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel! Subscribe today! And click the alert to get notified of new content! https:\/\/youtube.com\/gruesomemagazine A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends, and a group of psychics.   Directed by: Katsuhiro \u00d4tomo (supervising director) Writing Credits: Katsuhiro \u00d4tomo & Iz\u00f4 Hashimoto; Katsuhiro \u00d4tomo (manga) Selected Cast: Mitsuo Iwata as Kaneda (voice) Nozomu Sasaki as Tetsuo (voice) Mami Koyama as Kei (voice) Tessh\u00f4 Genda as Ryu (voice) Hiroshi \u00d4take as Nezu (voice) K\u00f4ichi Kitamura as Lady Miyako \/ Committee A (voice) Michihiro Ikemizu as Inspector \/ Committee I (voice) Yuriko Fuchizaki as Kaori (voice) Masaaki \u00d4kura as Yamagata (voice) Tar\u00f4 Arakawa as Army \/ Committee G \/ Eiichi Watanabe (voice) Takeshi Kusao as Kai (voice) Kazumi Tanaka as Army (voice) Masayuki Kat\u00f4 as Engineer Sakiyama \/ Committe D (voice) Y\u00f4suke Akimoto as Harukiya Bartender (voice) Masato Hirano as Committee F \/ Spy \/ Y\u00fbji Takeyama \/ Terrorist (voice) Yukimasa Kishino as Assistant \/ Committee B \/ Mitsuru Kuwata \/ Terrorist \/ Shimazaki (voice) Kazuhiro Kand\u00f4 as Masaru (voice) (as Kazuhiro Kando) Tatsuhiko Nakamura as Akashi (voice) Fukue It\u00f4 as Kiyoko (voice) (as Sachie Ito) Akira is Chad\u2019s pick and it completely blew his mind as he watched it for the first time with his mouth hanging open. It\u2019s not just the animation that still captures his attention. It\u2019s also the excellent stories and characters, the relationships, and how it leaned into body horror during the confrontation between Kaneda and Tetsuo. There is so much going on that it\u2019s a treat to sit down and watch it. Akira keeps getting better every time he experiences it. Crystal also loves the characters and their relationships depicted in the oppressed society of Akira. Those psychic kids messed her up and the animation is great, but it\u2019s really the story that makes it special. Bill prefers watching Akira in the original Japanese language with English subtitles, adding that this beautiful and influential film is an unrelenting and brutal bloodbath of a film in which no character is safe. Akira is the first anime Jeff\u2019s seen with the exception of the original Astro Boy TV series (1963-1965) and he, too, is blown away. There seemed to be no top end as the story, color, and animation just kept ramping up. He\u2019s so glad Chad chose this film. In general, the 80s Grue Crew prefers the version with Japanese language and English subtitles, but it is difficult to take in the visual feast while reading subtitles. At the time of this writing, Akira is available to stream from Hulu, Funimation, and Tubi, and on physical media as a Blu-ray disc or 4K UHD from Funimation. Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine\u2019s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode\u2019s film, chosen by Jeff, will be David Cronenberg\u2019s Scanners (1981). You know\u2026 the one with the scene? Please let them know how they\u2019re doing! They want to hear from you \u2013 the coolest, grooviest fans \u2013 so leave them a message or comment on the gruesome Magazine Youtube channel, on the website, or email the Decades of Horror 1980s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com. ","author_name":"Decades of Horror | Horror News Radio","author_url":"http:\/\/docrotten.libsyn.com","html":"