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Akira (1988)

Akira (1988) remains the definitive masterpiece of hand-drawn sci-fi, boasting 160,000 individually painted cels that still dwarf most modern digital productions. Katsuhiro Otomo's cyberpunk epic set in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo was a watershed moment for anime in the West, and its fluid animation and dystopian vision influenced everything from The Matrix to Stranger Things.

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