Funimation Celebrates Happy 25 With AKIRA On DVD/Blu-Ray Later This Year

Well, while we are waiting for Non-Stop director Jaume Collet-Serra‘s newly announced restart of production for the $90 million-or-less live action feature film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Andrew Lazar producing for Warner Bros., FUNimation has plans to release the 25th Anniversary DVD/Blu-Ray of the classic 1988 animated movie directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, who wrote the original 1982 manga for Kodansha. Crunchyroll reports that FUNimation’s release will come in the form of a DVD/Blu-Ray combo pack, featuring both English dub tracks from the Streamline (1988) and Pioneer (2001) versions, as well as the Japanese track with English subtitles.

Check out the new Geek Week trailer for Akira and stay tuned for a release date!


UPDATE: To Pre-Order the film, CLICK HERE.

SYNOPSIS:

Tokyo has risen from the ashes of World War III to become a dark and dangerous megalopolis infested with gangs and terrorists. The government seethes with corruption and only maintains a token control over the powerful military that prevents total chaos and hides the secrets of the past. Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda plunge into Neo-Tokyo’s darkest secret when their motorcycle gang encounters a military operation to retrieve an escaped experimental subject. Tetsuo, captured by the military, is subjected to experiments that make him a powerful psychic, but, unfortunately for Neo-Tokyo, Tetsuo’s powers rage out of control and he lashes out at the world that has oppressed him! Nothing can stop the destructive forces that Tetsuo wields except possibly the last boy to destroy Tokyo.

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