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The 2020 Olympic Games will take place in Tokyo, Japan, as predicted in the manga "Akira" released in 1982.

The 2020 Olympics will take place in Tokyo, as predicted in the manga Akira in 1982

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  1. The manga creator of Dragon Ball Z, Akira Toriyama, met Jackie Chan, who is a fan of Toriyama's previous works, Dr. Slump. Because of the meetup, Toriyama had the inspiration to create Dragon Balls, then incorporated Jackie Chan's stunts as Dragon Ball fighting moves.

  2. There is a webcomic parody of the Akira manga called Bartkira, that retells the story panel by panel replacing the characters with Simpsons characters. It is done by multiple artists and they also recreated the original trailer for the movie.

  3. Blues legend Robert Johnson had an award-winning manga made about him by Akira Hiramoto, author of Prison School. It was called 'Me and the Devil Blues'. School Library Journal named it one of best adult books for high school students in 2008.

  4. An area(s) in the game Half-Life are inspired by the Akira manga.

  5. The swirly-poop-with-eyes emoji was inspired by creatures in Dr. Slump, the manga that Akira Toriyama worked on prior to Dragon Ball

  6. Akira-the Japanese manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo-inspired the hit science fiction action film The Matrix (1999)

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