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— by Kambole Campbell: Despite it being one of the loudest animated films ever made, Akira begins in eerie silence. In the year 1988, an unknown singularity suddenly and entirely wipes out the city of Tokyo, the screen fading to white before back in to show the crater, the husk of the old city that lies still abandoned in 2019, post World War III…

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