Akira Trivia

In the 2001 sub version, Joshua Seth plays the voice of Tetsuo, but also plays other voices in some other anime shows, Digimon, Duel Masters, Speed Racer, etc. He plays the voice of a very small role character in the Spongebob Squarepants Movie. Seth also plays the voice of a chiuahua in the Taco Bell commercial.

In the 2001 English dub, the voice of Kaneda is performed by Yong Bosch who played Adam, the Black Ranger on "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers". Coincidentally, in the previous English dub, the voice of Kaneda was performed by Jimmy Flinders, who voiced Leonardo in the previous big superhero/fad show of the '90's, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".

At one point in the 1990s, Sony contemplated a live-action version of the film, but scrapped the idea when the projected budget allegedly went north of US$300 million.

Akira's budget was 8 million dollars, making it one of the most expensive animes ever at the time of its release.

The small, shifty man with the large incisors is named Nezu, which means "rat."

The name of the black clown who leads the clowns is Joker.

At one point a demonstrator is seen wearing a baseball cap with wings. A similar cap is a plot element in Katsuhiro Otomo's previous comic story "Domu."

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