Movie Substrate · Film
Akira (1988)
★ 7.9 · 4,740 ratings on TMDB
Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
DirectorKatsuhiro Otomo
The emergence reading
Akira keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceJP
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8psihumans can develop uncontrolled psychic powers capable of manipulating matter and energy (cognition · local)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)E11/E12 · Action, Animation
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)E6/E11 · Action, Animation
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)E9/E11 · Action, Science Fiction
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)E11/E12 · Action, Science Fiction
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · Action, Science Fiction
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)E11/E12 · Action, Science FictionAlso bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inception (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Avatar (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Minority Report (2002)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)alters at E8 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
