Akira

Akira

Supporting

An accomplished male model, Akira is the son of the photographer that hires Tohya and "Tatsuki". He works with Tohya and Tatsuki in their first photo shoot, and instantly takes a dislike to Tohya because of his looks and lack of emotion in his poses. Alth...

Kaneda Shoutarou

Main

Kaneda is a carefree gang-leader who boasts a custom-modified motorcycle. He and Tetsuo have been best friends since early childhood. He is brash and not above teasing Tetsuo despite feeling affection for him as a younger brother. Upon rescuing Kei, Kaned...

Kei

Main

A young woman whom Kaneda meets on his quest to find Tetsuo. She is a member of an anti-government organization that Ryu and Nezu are also involved in.She is seemingly better looking in the manga, and appears to be somewhat older than Shotaro Kaneda, just...

Shima Tetsuo

Main

Kanedas best friend since preschool and the second principal subject of the storys theme. Tetsuo is shown as a black sheep in the gang he and Kaneda are part of, and quietly suffers from a deeply rooted inferiority complex. He admires his friend yet at th...

Admiral

Supporting

He is an admiral of USA fleet that been staying nearby Japan, monitoring Neo-Tokyo. He is very skeptical of the research of Project Juvenile A.He died when Tetsuo crashed down FLOYD satellite upon the aircraft carrier....

Bernardi

Supporting

Professor Bernardi is a scientist, and member of Project Juvenile A. He studies the effects, and causes of psychic abilities in people such as Akira, and Tetsuo Shima. He acts as the leader of the team.(Source: Akira Wikia)...

Chiyoko

Supporting

Chiyoko is the weapons expert for the Resistance and Kei's close friend and ally. ...

Doctor Onishi

Supporting

Doctor Onishi, usually known only as the Doctor, is the head scientist of the secret psychic research project who also serves as the Colonels scientific advisor. He belonged to the second generation of scientists overseeing the project after Akira killed ...

Dubrovsky

Supporting

Doctor Dubrovsky is a Russian scientist who studies phenomena caused by the powers of Akira, Tetsuo Shima, and other people with psychic abilities, he joins Project Juvenile A to this effect. He was the last one to arrive and by Mikes suggestion gave a na...

Harukiya Barkeeper

Supporting

Owns a seedy, run down bar located just off the Eastern Express Highway, in District 17.In the anime he was killed by Tetsuo.In the manga he was giving a shelter for Kei and Kaneda when they were hiding from the police....

Hock George

Supporting

George Hock is a scientist, and member of Project Juvenile A. He studies the effects, and causes of psychic abilities in people such as Akira, and Tetsuo Shima.His rib-cage was severely hurt when Tetsuo made a mess in the laboratory room which seems had l...

Houzuki Otoko

Supporting

Houzuki Otoko is a member of Tetsuos shock troops. He is described as a fat, short man with glasses who encounters Yamada and the Marines at Olympic Stadium. He was friends with Tori Otoko, and managed to use his power to crush a Marines heart before bein...

Joker

Supporting

A member of the Uruha who has given his devotion completely to Kurei. True to his name, Joker keeps a carefree and facetious attitude at all times, except when hes being serious in battle. Its unknown whether or not he wants to help Recca and crew at ti...

Jorris

Supporting

Doctor Jorris is a scientist, and member of Project Juvenile A. She studies the effects, and causes of psychic abilities in people such as Akira, and Tetsuo Shima.She died when Tetsuo crashed down FLOYD satellite upon the aircraft carrier....

Kai

Main

An RMsmiths fosterling who admires Ginta for his deeds in the 2nd MR-Heaven war. He always wants an RM as powerful as Babbo, but is capable of using none, as commented by his foster father, for his character is too hesitant. It later tur...

Kaori

Supporting

Called Kaorin by all of her peers (and one admirer who is most definitely not a peer), Kaori is a bright girl interested in Astronomy, Arts & Crafts, ...and Miss Sakaki, a beautiful, but very reserved, classmate. It is Kaoris great tragedy she is often t...

Kiyoko

Supporting

Kiyoko, designated #25, is the only girl among the Espers. She has green wrinkled skin and long white hair styled into braids, and wears a pink nightgown; in the flashback in the anime, Kiyoko has healthy skin and light brown hair, and is wearing a pink d...

Masaru

Supporting

Masaru, like his friends, was likely an orphan by the time he was acquired by the government of old Tokyo, along with a group of other children. At the time, this particular government was spearheading a secret project, supervised by Colonel Shikishima, t...

Mike

Supporting

Mike is a scientist, and member of Project Juvenile A. He studies the effects and causes of psychic abilities in people like Akira, and Tetsuo Shima....

Miyako

Supporting

Lady Miyako is the High Priestess of a temple in Neo-Tokyo and an instrumental leader in the battle against Tetsuo. She is a former test subject (#19) and possesses psychic powers. However, in the anime she was shown as a mere fanatic of Akira sect....

Nezu

Supporting

A parliament member who is also the leader of the terrorist resistance movement against the government.He provides information to the rest of the resistance as an undercover mole, such as the IDs required to gain access to the military hospital. Ryu tells...

Nurse

Supporting

The Nurse is an attractive female Kronos Heaven figure. She is overly enthusiastic and easily excited. Originally sent by Gaku and Yuki to recover Night by kissing him so that he becomes her lover instead of Riikos, the Nurse ends up kissing Soshi by mist...

Resistance Member

Supporting

He is the person who kidnapped Takashi from the hospital, in the beginning of the anime he was shot down by the army, which caused Takashi to release his power. In the manga he was on the team together with Ryu and Kei, he was the one who found out the Sp...

Ryuusaku

Supporting

A brother of Kei and the terrorist of the resistance movement.In the anime, Ryuu aided a terrorist attack on a shopping mall. He was then in charge of the team whose task is to infiltrate the military hospital, and find any information they can on the new...

Shikishima

Supporting

In 1997, Professor Shikishima, robotics specialist, customer Convini Kenji disappears with his family, the police search his trail, but never find....

Simmons Stanley

Supporting

Doctor Stanley Simmons is a scientist, and member of Project Juvenile A. He studies the effects and causes of psychic abilities in people like Akira, and Tetsuo Shima.To advance the research of the phenomena that is happening in Neo-Tokyo, members of Proj...

Spy

Supporting

An armys secret member who was exposing the hideouts of the terrorists. He was found out by Ryus friend and got deadly wounded. However he manged to survive and later got his revenge in the underground facility of Akiras cryogenic lair....

Taichou

Supporting

Taichou is an opportunist posing as a fanatical devotee of Tetsuo who serves him as his aide-de-camp late in the story but secretly desires control of the Great Tokyo Empire.During the confrontation between Tetsuo and the U.S. Marines, he is caught in the...

Takaba

Supporting

Takaba is a very violent teacher at Kanedas school. He is hated by all students who call him "Jaws."...

Takashi

Supporting

Takashi, designated #26, is a member of the Espers. Takashi was inadvertently instrumental in Tetsuos psychic emergence and his eventual fall into insanity when he was trying to find a way in the outside world and happened to be standing right in Tetsuos ...

Tangi Karma

Supporting

Karma Tengi is a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, who displays minor psychic abilities in that he can sense large scale psychic phenomena, and the presence of nearby psychics, such as Tetsuo Shima. He is a member of Project Juvenile A as an advisor.He is assumed to...

Tori Otoko

Supporting

Tori Otoko is one of Tetsuos elite psychic shocktroops. He wears a blindfold and is frequently standing atop ruined buildings and rafters, observing and reporting on the goings-on within the Empires turf, and essentially acting as a security system. It is...

Yamada George

Supporting

Lieutenant Yamada is a Japanese-American soldier who is sent on a mission to assassinate Akira and Tetsuo in the latter-half of the story, after Akira has leveled Neo-Tokyo. Yamada plans to kill the two powerful psychics with darts containing a biological...

Yamagata

Supporting

One of the most prominent members of Kaneda's gang. He often derides Tetsuo, which leads to harsh feelings between them that will ultimately seal his fate.(Source: Wikipedia)...