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