Like Ghost in the Shell that followed it, Akira is thought of a touchstone of the cyberpunk style, even though its inspirations operate a lot deeper than paying homage to William Gibson’s Neuromancer or Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. For 1, it is the longest struggle in a exhibit previously acknowledged for its multi-episode fights (section of its serialized DNA as an adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s manga series in Weekly Shōnen Jump).