About this episode

The Bad Dads discuss the influential anime film Akira, exploring its themes and impact.

This week the Bad Dads take on Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime classic: part cyberpunk biker movie, part psychic apocalypse, part body-horror nightmare, and still one of the most influential animated films ever made. What We Covered The motorcycle connection: Sidey picked Akira partly off the back of motorcycle week, with the famous “Akira slide” still instantly recognisable decades later.Neo-Tokyo and the set-up: The Dads discuss the opening destruction of Tokyo, the rebuilt dystopian ci...

People in this episode

Host: Sidey

Topics covered

• anime
• cyberpunk
• body-horror
• film review
• influential films

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Akira

Places: Tokyo, Neo-Tokyo

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