This week, Tristan and Christina discuss Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (1988)
Topics of conversation include: The Olympics, Stranger Things, and 1980s Japan
Track of the Week: Kaneda
Links:
1990 Review
Freida Freiburg, Akira and the Postnuclear Sublime  in Hibakusha Cinema
David Desser, Consuming Asia in Multiple Modernities
Susan Napier, The Dystopian Imagination in The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature
Susan Napier, Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira
Thomas LaMarre, Born of Trauma: Akira and Capitalist Modes of Destruction
Video Essays:
AKIRA: How To Animate Light 
The Impact of Akira
Understanding Disaster: Akira and the Postmodern Apocalypse
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