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July 19, 2024 75 mins

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Join Ian and Emily as they get dressed up in our bright red leather biker suits and slide into 1988's AKIRA, one of the most revered and influential anime films of all time. We discuss the haunting weight of nuclear allegory, as well as:

- Motorcycle Clowns
- The Taxi from Roger Rabbit
- Young Old Men and Old Young Men
- Mind Bullets
- Beaver Men
- Dr Manhattan, and how the power of a God makes you a worse human
- The usefulness of Laser Cannons
- The safety concerns of pondering the orb
- Jesse Ventura

And much much more! This is a little longer than usual, but a LOT happens in this film. Be forewarned, it does mention body horror and sexual assault briefly, and there is some mild profanity when discussing how lines were changed between dubs.

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