Like Ghost in the Shell that followed it, Akira is regarded a touchstone of the cyberpunk style, even though its inspirations run a great deal further than paying out homage to William Gibson’s Neuromancer or Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. For 1, it is the longest fight in a display presently recognised for its multi-episode fights (portion of its serialized DNA as an adaptation of Akira Toriyama’s manga collection in Weekly Shōnen Jump).