Akira Concepts

Betrayal is the act of treachery or a violation of a trust or allegiance. This can be to one's friends, country, or God.

The concept where a character's body goes through the process of a graphic transformation, destruction or degeneration of the body.

Power corrupts. Bureaucratic power (especially tied to other powers) is no exception.

The process of freezing living organisms.

The loss of limbs and body parts is a common concept in many of the more violent Japanese manga and anime.

Someone who sells illegal drugs for profit

An esper (or ESP-er) is someone with psychic abilities. The concept is frequently used in a variety of anime series.

The act or an instance of putting to death or being put to death as a lawful penalty.

It's use can be intended to be shockingly disturbing or hilariously absurd.

Used frequently in Anime to either recap past events or provide a back story for a character, either their origin story or their off-screen training of new attack. Sometime and entire episode/chapter would be a entire flashback.

An act when someone gives up something of great importance for a greater good.

Kissing is the act of pressing your lips to the body of another person. This can be on the cheeks, head, hand, but more commonly to another person's lips.

Death of a major character.

A religious person who lives either alone or in a holy place sutch as a temple or a church. Most of them tries to avoid worldy pleasures and to bring good to the world.

The Police are a form of law enforcement officers that work on the local levels. Uniforms are normally in either blue or black.

The world after the Big One (nuclear war, intergalactic invasion, super disease). Life sucks after the Apocalypse.

In addition to being just weather, the rain can symbolize many things. It can represent life, foreshadowing, sadness, and many things.

A very common species of rodent.

An electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer or electronic programming, and is thus able to do tasks on its own.

Sometimes the pursuit of scientific knowledge goes far beyond what is accepted in polite society. When normal Science can't get the job done, we turn to "Science!" and the perverse minds that practice it.

People who through a great pursuit of knowledge tends to make the impossible possible.

A person or group that use psychological or destructive tactics to intimidate large numbers of people in order to further their own goals.