Merry Christmas, it’s Akira’s 30th anniversary! And the influential anime film, released in US cinemas December 25, 1989 has everything you need for jolly holiday viewing -- vicious gangs, telekinetic powers, the eradication of civilized society, psychic children with horrifyingly aged faces, a dystopian view on how technology will consume us all, a viscerally disgusting villain that consumes and absorbs everything in its path, and one of the scariest film scores ever composed. Uh… maybe it’s not so much a wonderful life? Akira is a chest-grabbing masterpiece, an explosive film that helped usher manga and anime into …