Joe Peacock vividly remembers the first time he saw "Akira," the influential sci-fi anime film that turns 30 this month.
It was "a random Thursday night" in 1990. Peacock was a young teen; his father drove him to a screening of the film at the University of Georgia, where it was being shown in Japanese.
"My jaw was on the floor," Peacock recalls. "I couldn't believe what I had just seen."