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Hi everyone, welcome to RetroNots.

I didn't look up the number for this episode, but it's a very big number, very round, very

large because we're very old.

We've been around for a long time doing this and we're not going to keep it doing it.

And what we're going to do this time around is talk about a Japanese comic and movie

that's not a video game.

What's going on?

What shenanigans are these?

Tell me.

Set me straight people on the other side of the line.

Hey, it's Bob Mackie.

Hey, it's Henry Gilbert.

I'm taking a bunch of pills to and I still haven't gotten my latent psychic abilities yet.

And this is Jeremy Parish in a bunch of bottles that have been preserved for the future,

for science in North Carolina.

And I've been pulled out of the deep freeze to share the psychic powers of a TV series,

a movie actually, before that a comic series, and also some video games based on Akira,

the classic Japanese animation.

That's what most people know it as, but as we're going to talk about this episode, it's

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